As a nature center operator I have to tell Julie it is a centipede, and it grows to 8 inches. If one bites with its fangs which are the front two “legs” by its head a person will have a burning sensation for 30 minutes, a little swelling, and then that is it for a week or two, when a little core of dead flesh drops out and leaves a little hole.
they say that everything is bigger in Texas, but that was a baby compaired to the monsters we had in the Puna District of the Big Island 10-15 inches at times. great blog
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EEEEWWWWWW!!!! We had those nasty things in Hawaii…
I took millipede photos in Pennsylvania, but the focus didn’t. So all I have are blurs of dark sticklike things with red stripes.
They sure looked neat. And they were about the circumference of a pencil and near 4 inches long.
Up here we have miniatures, little bitty brown fellows no bigger than an inch or so. ‘Bout as big around, and as scary, as a piece of speghetti.
This guy was twice that, Jen. Those are 2×6 planks in the deck and he scared the #$%^&* out of me >^..^
*eek*
Yep, everything’s bigger in Texas!
*grin*
isn’t that a Hellgrammite? (sp?)
As a nature center operator I have to tell Julie it is a centipede, and it grows to 8 inches. If one bites with its fangs which are the front two “legs” by its head a person will have a burning sensation for 30 minutes, a little swelling, and then that is it for a week or two, when a little core of dead flesh drops out and leaves a little hole.
they say that everything is bigger in Texas, but that was a baby compaired to the monsters we had in the Puna District of the Big Island 10-15 inches at times. great blog