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Desert Centipede (Scolopendra morsitans), family Scolopendridae, Australia
Photograph by Nick Volpe
African giant centipede, Ethmostigmus trigonopodus, Scolopendridae
Photographed in South Africa by Bernard DuPont
if you’re curious about centipede sounds, here’s Agatha walking on some paper after her banana treat time.
42 little clicking nails ASMR? (well, really only about 38 are ever in contact with the ground)
(Scolopendra mutilans)
neon house centipedes in your house at night (but it's okay because they eat neon cockroaches)
My research partner (the house centipede - Scutigera coleoptrata) with my favorite flower. House centipedes pay rent with labor, eating cockroaches and any other bugs they might find. They’re also clean little houseguests - they carefully groom themselves, one leg at a time.
A request was made for me to post any cute centipedes I might know of.
Centipedes pretty much all fall under a “sleek and lethal” aesthetic but to me one of the cutest things of all is when a tough fierce predator gets gentle and protective. A mother centipede will stay wrapped around her eggs and babies not only to keep parasites at bay but to hold them up off of the ground and keep them clean of any fungi or bacterial infections! Some studies find that if the babies are already hatched, the whole family will scatter and fend for themselves when disturbed (such as by a huge human uncovering them), so the babies don’t “need” the mother’s protection, but she’ll still hold onto them for a long time if she can. Every extra day that they get a little more time to grow under her watch probably makes a difference.
here is a Scolopendra mutilans lapping up mango juice from a spoon
while giant centipedes are mostly predators that feed on insects and small vertebrates, they may occasionally enjoy a sweet fruit treat! several species have been seen eating fruit in the wild, and pet centipedes seem to enjoy it now and then.
FEAR OF CENTIPEDES IS CALLED CHILOPOPHOBIA??? WTF...... i have lived my entire life fearless of everything . yet i see one of these multiple legged bitches and i am unresponsive . i am like a deer in the headlights. i have crushed several roaches, slapped wasps and hornets out of the air to their demise, obliterate the absolute hell of out spiders, wrecked havoc i am talkin ultimate bug killer type beat on the insect kingdom. yet,,,, i see 1(one) centipede and it's over. it's over for me. i am achilles and the centipedes are Paris and his arrows. i was doomed from the start. why didn't my mother make me completely fearless? why did it have to be centipedes? why not something stupid? like fear of planes or something? no. it had to be centipedes. every time i step into my shower i have to check behind every bottle. i go into the basement i am careful of where i step. the insect world would be demolished if the centipedes weren't there. god made centipedes to keep me at bay. i'm to powerful without a weakness. why couldn't i just be a fearless, stupid, college frat boy ? why. why did i have to be a powerful deity who will forever be trapped due to a small, easily killable, hundred legged insect? what was god so afraid of? what am i capable. of? he didn't need to do this to me but he did. it's so disrespectful.. . god will beg for mercy when i gain the ability to kill the little skinny ugly disaster of a bug centipedes. there is no god around when i see one of these bitches when i am naked and afraid in the shower. who do i pray to in times like this? He listens to me but ignores it all the same. so while i write this message, about to take my shower. if i see a damn centipede. you will know because suddenly the corpse of god will be found in a Pennsylvanian field. maimed and scalped. the centipedes will be running. hiding. crying out. to who? i already decimated their god . now there is only me and the insects. their cries for mercy or begging for an allegiance go unheard , for i am wearing earplugs and full of a rage and fury enough to power a small desk lamp. goodbye you stupid fucks. nobody will ever fucking miss you. i will turn your bodies and bodies of loved ones into dust and ash. nobody will ever wonder 'what happened to the centipedes?' because you are insignificant and useless. if you are a centipede. i . will. see. you. soon.
Appreciation post for centipedes. I love them , they are very gender
I am going to eat them all/j
Also centipedes eat bedbugs and other fuckers like silverfish (apparently silverfish can be harmful to your belongings), so they're comrades ::3
THE BADASS BUG BRACKET
SEMIFINALS 1
Amazonian Giant Centipede (scolopendra gigantea) vs Giant Desert Centipede (scolopendra heros)
Amazonian giant centipede propaganda: the largest species of centipede in the world, grows up to a foot long, sometimes eats snakes, sparks fear in even the most whimsical bug lovers, so awesome
Giant Desert Centipede propaganda: I mean, look at it!!! Not only is it the biggest centipede in all of North America, but it can inject venom THOURGH. ITS. FEET. HOW IS THAT NOT COOL???