Posted on 07/10/2015 9:39:14 AM PDT by C19fan
This picture has been terrifying the Internet ever since the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department posted it to their social media pages late last week. It depicts a very healthy, very large, very intimidating centipede with a vibrant red head and lengthy fangs.
Although it might appear to be some sort of foreign beast to the uninitiated, this bug is actually a Texas native. Called the Texas or giant redheaded centipede, the species has been known to grow to 8 inches in length. This particular specimen, found in Garner State Park, certainly looks to be one of the big ones.
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Snake-eating Centipede... Jeb Bush should keep an eye out for that one, he would make one tasty meal.
Hillary on her broom come to mind...
We should breed them, and ship them to Washington, DC.
In the book “Dr. No” It is a centipede, in the movie they changed it to a tarantula.
Either way I don’t want them in my bed.
We used to get 5 inch long centipedes in our yard in NM. They didn’t have the pretty red and black colors of this one.
We also had these huge wasps that apparently bred their young in live Tarantulas (Tarantula Hawk Wasps).
It was a lot smaller before it swallowed that snake.
Is the Wookiee on vacation again ,LOL
Are they poisonous?
“We also had these huge wasps that apparently bred their young in live Tarantulas (Tarantula Hawk Wasps)”
IIRC, that species of wasp, or one similar to it, was one of Ridley Scott’s inspirations in the movie Alien.
Kill it! Kill it with fire! Argggh!!!
Yes although non fatal to humans but supposedly it will hurt.
All centipedes are poisonous.
http://www.orkin.com/other/centipedes/poisonous-centipedes/
Centipedes are arthropods belonging to Class Chilopoda. They are predatory and venomous. Venom is produced by a gland at the base of the fangs and is administered by maxillipeds on the first body segment. Upon capturing prey, the poison gland is squeezed by the muscles surrounding it and ejects toxins through needle-like ducts. Despite this, the venom usually is not strong enough to be life threatening to people, and most centipede bites are typically more painful for humans than they are dangerous.
Centipedes possess maxillipeds, a modified pair of front legs that curve around the head and behind the mandibles. Maxillipeds enter a victim’s tissue and inject venom produced by a gland at their base. Small centipedes’ maxillipeds are too weak to penetrate human skin, and their bite typically yields only minor discomfort, similar to that caused by a bee sting.
I’m Cajun, so I have to ask: What do they taste like?
I’m thinking a nice sauce piquante.
I’ve been bitten by a centipede. I thought maybe this one will be proportionally deadly. My hair went up just looking at the picture.
“used to get 5 inch long centipedes in our yard in NM. They didn’t have the pretty red and black colors of this one.”
LOL! I have them all over my place here in southern NM. If I walked over to the firewood pile right now, I’d only have to spend about half a minute before I could find one. They’ve never bothered me, but to the uninitiated, they can seem quite terrifying. It’s the little 3/4” translucent scorpions that I kill on sight. Their sting will make a person quite ill, at best. I also know of those Tarantula Wasps. I favor the tarantulas, so I kill the wasps. Now that we’ve finally gotten some summer rains, the tarantulas are coming out. Some of these species of tarantulas don’t even start to breed until they are 15 or so years old.
Venomous, not poisonous.
When I was about 18, I was out in the woods in Oklahoma and saw something bright red in the leaves. Thought it was a piece of plastic and picked it up. It was one of these centipedes, about 7 inches long. It tried to double-back and bite my hand, and I threw that thing as far as I was able. Scared me something fierce.
“What do they taste like?” - Uh, CHICKEN. (Doesn’t everything?)
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