How to pronounce “scorpions” in English

So life in Peru wasn't all fighting scorpions and staying up all night.

and also that the place was crawling with rattlesnakes and scorpions.

And then termites and hornets and earwigs and scorpions and ladybugs and praying mantises all dry in packets in garden supply stores.

In the very first room, they discovered and defeated a nest of scorpions.

And I love places that are really cold, compared to the extreme heat or jungle, you don't have scorpions, or snakes, or spiders.

Oh, by the way, the guy who carried my suitcase up to the palapa told me, turn over your shoes because there's a lot of scorpions.

But one thing that I was kind of wondering, because when you work as a physician, there's this sort of scorpions-in-a-bottle scenario