…the species is known by many common names, including jungle centipede, orange-legged centipede, Hawaiian centipede, and Vietnamese centipede.
…it is also found on virtually all land areas around and within the Indian Ocean, all of tropical and subtropical Asia from Russia to the islands of Malaysia and Indonesia, Australia, South and Central America, the Caribbean islands, and possibly parts of the southern United States…
I think it’s actually Scolopendra alternans because the one pictured has only 4 segments on it’s antennae, but subspinipes has many.
Scolopendra alternans is a species group found in the whole Caribbean island and northern South America, with the Florida population reevaluated as a distinct species Scolopendra longipes.[1] They have also been reported as far north as Georgia.
Centipedes are the absolute worst of the worst in terms of disturbing insects. I can’t even look at one without my brain vividly simulating the way all of those crispy little legs would feel clinging along the length of my arm.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 01 May 08:15
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Like the stretched limo of a beetle. But also with the most horriblist type of spider legs
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
on 01 May 11:32
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Imagine how they’d all feel making purchase on your soft throat tissue as it forces its way down your throat
I saw a video once of a giant centipede devouring a live mouse, and it still fucks with me every time I think of it. I still remember that mouse’s eyes.
frigidaphelion@lemmy.world
on 01 May 11:34
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🤓uhm ackhtually centipedes are not insects but are members of a different group of arthropods called Myriapods, along with everyone’s favorite detritivores the millipedes
edit for additional infodumping: their venom injecting apparatuses are modified legs called forcipules or toxicognaths, and they are the only known animal with such features.
CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world
on 01 May 14:27
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My favorite myriapod is Arthropleura. Imagine a millipede the length of a car!
xorollo@leminal.space
on 01 May 20:25
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Have you ever gotten to see one IRL?
CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world
on 01 May 22:42
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Not yet!
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 01 May 22:23
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no, I don’t think I will.
El_Scapacabra@lemm.ee
on 02 May 10:03
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Thanks for making me google that ;_;
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
on 02 May 11:16
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“Arthropleura (Greek for ‘jointed ribs’) is an extinct genus…”
Thank fuck
Hikermick@lemmy.world
on 01 May 03:09
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A deadipede if I ever see one
noooo it just wants to fertilize your hotdogs it didn’t do anything wrong
That centipede is hung
Is that a hotdog or are you just happy to see me? 🥹😍
Yes
let’s do a taste test to find out, nomnom
tom and jerry scream
You aint kidding… HUNGry
That’s not centipede, I counted only 17x2=34 legs! Its thirtyfour-pede
This guy pedes!
This guy pedos
Calm down Elon
Well, to be fair, a centurion commanded les than one hundred people…
And no such century lasted for a century either.
Scolopendra subspinipesI think it’s actually Scolopendra alternans because the one pictured has only 4 segments on it’s antennae, but subspinipes has many.
Is it a hot dog when it’s neither cooked or in a bun??
Yes. You are describing a sandwich, not a hot dog.
Nope. That’s just an uncooked sausage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dog
Depending on your definition of ‘bun’, the centipede could be the bun here.
Needs more fur to be a bun.
Knowledgeable identification of an
insectarthropod from the photo with cited reasoning: nice.Dick joke : 4x the upvotes.
It’s not an insect.
Corrected. One pedant point awarded.
Dude I remember visiting the Caribbean, a car ran over one of these lengthwise and it was badly injured but alive.
Where the what the fuck??m
The car was alive?
Yes. Haven’t you read Stephen king’s From a Buick 8?
Centipedes are the absolute worst of the worst in terms of disturbing insects. I can’t even look at one without my brain vividly simulating the way all of those crispy little legs would feel clinging along the length of my arm.
Like the stretched limo of a beetle. But also with the most horriblist type of spider legs
Imagine how they’d all feel making purchase on your soft throat tissue as it forces its way down your throat
I saw a video once of a giant centipede devouring a live mouse, and it still fucks with me every time I think of it. I still remember that mouse’s eyes.
🤓uhm ackhtually centipedes are not insects but are members of a different group of arthropods called Myriapods, along with everyone’s favorite detritivores the millipedes
edit for additional infodumping: their venom injecting apparatuses are modified legs called forcipules or toxicognaths, and they are the only known animal with such features.
My favorite myriapod is Arthropleura. Imagine a millipede the length of a car!
Have you ever gotten to see one IRL?
Not yet!
no, I don’t think I will.
Thanks for making me google that ;_;
Thank fuck
Looks like a dick with a toupe
ur a dick with a toupe
No I’m a dick with a full head of flowing lovely hair
Hmm… very mammalian.
Thank you for reminding me that Lemmy needs a “Fierce Flow” community, for men with long hair to celebrate their amazing locks.
Not a clue… But it is his hotdog/sossage/wiener now.
The kind that killed an idiot mukbang streamer in China.
For a second I thought this said “Hotdog for Sale”.
No, I would not purchase it.
Gicho is a delicacy, you shouldn’t turn your nose up at it.
I’m more worried about that thing turning up my nose.
It’s cooked to a perfect crisp, you have nothing to worry about.
I do understand why they want to sell it thought.
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A wild false eyelash appears
House centipedes are entirely harmless. I would be happy and honored to see one skittering around in my home. They eat harmful things.
That’s an exotic condiment
No, hot dog for centipede. It can fucking have it.
Wow I sure don’t like that:(
Not my proudest fap.
That’s a scalopendra, very venomous.