Thanks Red Badger.
Posted on 10/14/2024 4:23:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
Really, that’s why they’re so excited to harvest and replicate the venom. I swear.
Centipedes —book and bolt!— along dry ground, are creepy ugly, and revolting, make you want to do nothing other chase them down and squash them before those critters escape the light and vanish under the stairs or along a footboard or crack in a wall covering panel.
The fact that this guy dives down into dark underwater caves to find the same kind of creepy critter, and not to just kill it, but to preserve it and study it, shows that not everybody is alike!
I used to play with them as a child, not knowing the danger.....
Centipede venom, is it actually dangerous?
Maybe to human children? But not to adults because of the additional body weight? That’s what This Guy had heard. Recently. Having never come across totally creepy centipedes as a child (only millipedes, as it turned out, and normal worms).
Bttt and also Eeeeew.
I’ve read that centipedes are spider hunters. The spiders come after other bugs and centipedes come after the spiders. Centipedes have jaws and other mouth parts, but have rarely been known to bite humans. I’d rather not have them around either, though.
Centipedes & Remipedes over 5cm Ping List
PING!
Shouldn't the mysterious crustaceans be required to obtain a medical degree before they're allowed to do this?
It’s Mexico......................
Is a remipede a crustacean?
Yeah? And magic beans COULD grow up into space too.
What could go wrong?
Good point! Their spider-hunting ways, though also creepy, are also, ultimately, endearing to the bulk of us who would prefer not to share our living space with spiders!
We kind of get along with Orca (killer) whales...so...
Maybe we should cut centipedes a break then.
They can’t help how ugly they are.
From Xibalba. Amazing.
Eat a baker’s dozen and yer good ta go?
Well, thanks for that
Thanks Red Badger.
A great cheap SciFi movie is just waiting to be made here.
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