Giant centipede eats a mouse! *vid*

[jeepinandy]

Yeah...you were TOTALLY right man. It's all about making sure that the operating angle is spot on. I was so much happier after your guidance.

Some how that seems SOOOO wrong... LOL

I didn't watch any of the links.. I've seen them on discovery channel.
Them sumbitches is freaky.

Do all ants taste the same? Ive had little black ones , argentinian?, and they tasted like crunchy mushrooms. Any one tried red ones?

No they don't.. And I've only tried black ones

 

[ladywolf]

The last thing all those fawkers would see is the bottom of my boot. They don't deserve to be here. Gil....those spiders are the worst. I hate even the smallest of spiders. Damn you Gil! Spiders are gay as hell.

let me see if i cant find you a camel spider *evil grin*

 

[DrMoab]

I was cleaning out ma garage a couple of weeks ago and felt something crawling up my arm....Looked down and there was a good sized black widow crawling up....I didn't like that at all.

 

[riverfever]

I was cleaning out ma garage a couple of weeks ago and felt something crawling up my arm....Looked down and there was a good sized black widow crawling up....I didn't like that at all.

We don't have black widows or brown recluses or anything else that's poison in the state of Colorado. You won't stub your toe, get the runs or even sneeze up here, honest.

I freak out when I see stupid, dumb spiders.

 

[XJ Dreamin']

That doesn't make my skin crawl. having some fly lay its egg in my skin and walking around while its damn larva was growing bigger and bigger inside me....


that makes my skin crawl!


The frackin' centipede can do what it wants (as long as it stays away from me) but I'm not going anywhere near a country where flies will lay eggs in you before your even dead!

 

[bjoehandley]

Speaking of spiders........
We had a customer bring in a used HPI Savage 21 that he got off of a friend and wanted to see that it would take to get it running again. As I look over the truck you could see that it was covered in webs, but condidering it was stored in the basement I didn't think much about it till I noticed these little white balls all over the chassis, when I looked closer I realized a spider (or spiders!) had put little eggsacks all over the place on the truck and I wasn't too sure if all of them had hatched yet! All I could think was that I hoped there weren't any new arrivals before he got the truck out of the store since I didn't know what kind of reaction that would create from my co-workers or worse yet customers!

HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just went back and watched that Camel Spider vid, I think that damn thing's bigger than my Losi Mini-T!

 

[goodburbon]

My old roomies brother came back from iraq a few weeks ago and related an animated story of how at the range, one of the nco's in his squad jumped up and began splattering m-9 rounds all over the rocks while jumping around madly.

They were on a night fire exercise at their range, turns out one of those camel spiders crept up to his face while he was in the prone position.

 

[bjoehandley]

My old roomies brother came back from iraq a few weeks ago and related an animated story of how at the range, one of the nco's in his squad jumped up and began splattering m-9 rounds all over the rocks while jumping around madly.

They were on a night fire exercise at their range, turns out one of those camel spiders crept up to his face while he was in the prone position.

I'm assuming he had to change his uniform (as well as underwear) after he got calmed down? I know that woulda scared the assgas: outta me, and I normally really don't give a damn if a spider's near me.

 

[planefixer]

We don't have black widows or brown recluses or anything else that's poison in the state of Colorado.

Actually we do have both, also prarie rattlesnakes.:lecture:

 

[JnJ]

So I'm about 7 years old. Get up early on Saturday morning to watch cartoons. It's dark and I don't turn on lights. I grab the life cereal and pour a bowl with milk. Sit down and start munching the Life and watching toons. After a while I notice something wierd in my cereal so I turn on the light. The cereal was full of spider webbing and a ton of little spiders.
It was years before I could eat Life cereal again.

 

[lost1]

OK, well I'm done. *runs screaming*

 

[bjoehandley]

OK, well I'm done. *runs screaming*

Atleast you weren't eating breakfast when the centepede video came upuke:

 

[XJFreak]

I was cleaning out ma garage a couple of weeks ago and felt something crawling up my arm....Looked down and there was a good sized black widow crawling up....I didn't like that at all.

Those things are all over the place up here. Down the street, there is an empty lot that no one has built on yet, so many of the contractors have used it to dump left over building material after a new house is built. Seems like every summer more of those spiders are crawling around on that lot and making their way to our houses.

 

[Beej]

that was REALLY frightening. i just showed it to my biology major friend and he's stumped as to what the thing is.

It looks like a Scolopendra Gigantea Robusta which is south american, but it doesn't look too far off from scolopendra heros which is found all over the states ( from http://www.uark.edu/depts/entomolo/museum/sheros.html ) ...

Giant redheaded centipedes are not frequently observed or collected, but those that make themselves known attract a great deal of attention because of their size and fierce appearance. Specimens average about 6 ½” in length, and they may reach nearly 8” in some instances. They have been called “giant desert centipedes,” but this appears to be a misnomer because the centipedes are often collected in rocky woodland in Arkansas. The species is also known to occur at least in Arkansas, southern Missouri, Louisiana, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico. Within Arkansas, we have reliable reports of this species from Benton, Carroll, Washington, Crawford, Sebastian, Perry, Pulaski, Garland, Hot Spring, Pike, and Howard Counties. The easternmost record for the species comes from Little Rock, Pulaski County. In the 1920s, William Baerg, head of the Entomology Department at the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville), regarded the giant redheaded centipede as rather common near Little Rock and in Northwest Arkansas. His limited experience with the species indicated that it occurred “in certain more or less restricted localities, where it can be found, at least during the warmer seasons, under stones and logs.”

 

[DBenz]

Cool video, obviously a pet centipede (rubbermaid containter, albino feeder mouse), but cool none the less. I work in a pet store and deal with tarantulas/millipedes/scorpions every day. I'm the reptile/spider guy. About a year ago, a friend of mine had a venomous species of centipede as a pet, it was 18" long and fed on mice much like the one in the video.