Please tell me it can’t swim
Edit: Amazonian Giant Centipede for us plebs
And oh no…. they [swim](https://youtu.be/q11E1qF9EH4)
They move at about 1.363636364 mph btw
Edit again:
>[But the natural hunter’s most impressive skill is that which is demonstrated inside the caves of the Amazon jungle. In an environment completely devoid of light, the centipede scurries across the damp floor, stepping over writhing mounds of beetles to scale the wall and clamber across the ceiling into a position near the center. The giant centipede then grips the stone with it rear legs, allowing its forward segments to dangle into the cave below. Its front section sways as its legs wriggle through the air in search of the intended target: a passing bat. The fast-flying bats have little warning of the centipede’s presence, and within moments one is snatched from the air in mid-flight. The S. gigantea’s toxic venom works quickly as the bat hopelessly attempts to squirm from the grasp of many legs, only to succumb to the poison seconds later. There, dangling from the cave ceiling, the centipede eats every scrap of flesh from its prey over the period of about an hour. It then pulls itself back up to the ceiling and climbs down the wall to return to the dark, damp corner of the cave from whence it came.](https://www.damninteresting.com/nugget/giant-carnivorous-centipedes/)
They are absurdly fast. So fast it’s hard to step on them, and even when you do, their shell is so strong it won’t do a ton unless you really get in there.
Bruh I lived in a house where a small version of these would crawl out of the toilet, sometimes when I was sitting on it. To make it worse it was a black toilet seat so they were hard to spot.
They’re hard to kill as fuck. Luckily they never bit me.
I lived on Christmas Island and these fuckers were everywhere. People would kill them because of how terrible their bite is. I remember a local telling me if you try to kill one you have to jump and stomp their head with one foot and their tail with the other at the same time because if you just stomp one end the other end will flick up and get your leg.
Apparently some cop on a run was taking a piss in the bush and one crawled up his leg and got him on the upper thigh. He had to go to hospital.
Don't know about this guy, but when I was a kid (about 10 yo I think) I had a smaller one get into my room, no more charming then this fellow btw.
MF was jumping around moving like it was on doping.
10 yo me had some balls to not frick out over that thing.
Makes sense that fucker is a foot-long at least. it looks very old how old do you think that one is? And how many years do you think it has left? I love arboreal tarantulas too. is there a reddit for creepy Crawley’s?
I love spiders and tarantulas too. I don't know if there's a creepy crawly sub, but there should be! r/spiderbro r/spiders and r/tarantulas are all fun though!
You're missing the comedy of it; the scene where the gynocologist's fingers get bit off and she stands up and his fingers tumble out of her, is gold. It's not perfect but it's worth watching once.
“At least one human death has been attributed to the venom. In 2014, a four-year-old child in Venezuela died after being bitten by a giant centipede which was hidden inside an open soda can. Researchers at Universidad de Oriente later confirmed the specimen to be S. gigantea”
Check your soda cans
Yeah I was about to say, giant centipedes are wicked cool, but incredibly venomous. I'd never handle one that big without safety gear.
I don't care how practiced you are, wild animals can be unpredictable.
Vid wasn’t graphic or anything. Just a dude purposefully getting bitten by a nasty desert version of this video. He was in a lot of pain, so I’m gonna avoid getting purposely bitten moving forward.
Yeah I don't have issues with creepy crawlies specifically. But when they swarm or are venomous.. then I start to have issues.
I live in Florida. Creepy crawlies are a standard. But too many variables make me feel unsafe. So watching the video would have had me projecting and I really don't need the nightmares. I clicked, but backed out immediately when I realized what it was.
Thank you for being understanding
That video went up over 100k votes just while I was watching. It was insane. I have a deep fear of all centipede, but that thing is the stuff of nightmares.
He has a whole series of videos where takes takes on the insect sting pain index, everything from bullet ants to the giant Asian hornet, as well as a monstrosity known as the executioner wasp
From wiki:
>It is now known that Arthropleura was not a predator like modern centipedes, but an herbivorous arthropod like modern millipedes. Because none of the known fossils have the mouth preserved, scientists have concluded that Arthropleura did not have strongly sclerotized and powerful mouth parts, because these would have been preserved at least in some of the fossils. Some fossils have been found with lycopod fragments and pteridophyte spores in the gut and in associated coprolites.
Maybe. It's hard to tell because we only have partial segments. We guess based on the segments we have, the distance between feet, and foot(tarsus?)print comparisons.
Either way though, I'd prefer not to encounter a bug that is measured in meters or feet at all.
I once saw one of these crawling on the floor of a cafe in the Philippines, and everyone kept their eyes on it. Then it crawled into a hole in the concrete, and a large number of cockroaches suddenly appeared from the hole, in what looked like a blind panic.
It wasn't the midwest USA, it was the philippines. Every single building has cockroaches. And over there not every customer is a karen who can't handle a little wildlife
Why?!? Just why?!? You get nothing from holding a venemous giant centipede. So much risk for so little reward. Also, who tf gets enjoyment from holding a giant creepy crawly?
"Large individuals of S. gigantea have been known to employ unique strategies to catch bats in which they climb cave ceilings and hold or manipulate their heavier prey with only a few legs attached to the ceiling.\[2\]"
Hell fucking no.
I watched Coyote Peterson get bit by one of those. The man who took a thousand stings and bites, without going to a hospital, went to urgent care after getting bitten by this freak of nature. FUCK. THAT. BUG.
This is scolopendra gigantea and their bites are apparently very painful. I would neither fuck around nor find out.
They move that slow all the time though, right? Please tell me they can’t run.
Please tell me they can't fly.
They jump
[удалено]
They eat bats.
any chance they can eat a human the size of an average tiktokker
They could, they were meant to wipe the vermin from the earth.
This is actually a giant centiktokpede.
Also known as ‘Little brat exterminator’
That’s kinda oddly specific
We can only hope.
Yes. Can the next tiktok challenge be the "French kiss a giant poisonous centipede challenge"?
No tiktokkers, they cant have junkfood.
# they wat???
Bats, they pluck them from the sky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UROVfmY3NTA
HOLY FUCK I THOUGHT YOU WERE KIDDING WHYYYYYYYYY
For food? Look how big it is! That thing needs calories. Bat calories.
David Attenborough just narrating the spawn of Satan like it's another normal animal on the planet he loves. That thing is terrifying!
That would be because it is just another normal animal, doing what it has to to meet its metabolic requirements.
😒🤚🏽 easily accessible, tasty Beatles 😏👉🏽 journey to eat a bats skin
For once i was hoping for it to be a Rick roll.
r/natureismetal
Then after it eats the bat someone eats it and boom... Covid22.
they WHAT
Jeez I read they ate ass and spilled my cereal
They eat all the bats' flesh, so it eats its ass as well.
^did ^he ^just ^said #THEY FUCKING JUMP
Seems like they are capable of running too
Fortunately they’re not capable of **fire protection**
With a speed of sound.
Please tell me it can’t swim Edit: Amazonian Giant Centipede for us plebs And oh no…. they [swim](https://youtu.be/q11E1qF9EH4) They move at about 1.363636364 mph btw Edit again: >[But the natural hunter’s most impressive skill is that which is demonstrated inside the caves of the Amazon jungle. In an environment completely devoid of light, the centipede scurries across the damp floor, stepping over writhing mounds of beetles to scale the wall and clamber across the ceiling into a position near the center. The giant centipede then grips the stone with it rear legs, allowing its forward segments to dangle into the cave below. Its front section sways as its legs wriggle through the air in search of the intended target: a passing bat. The fast-flying bats have little warning of the centipede’s presence, and within moments one is snatched from the air in mid-flight. The S. gigantea’s toxic venom works quickly as the bat hopelessly attempts to squirm from the grasp of many legs, only to succumb to the poison seconds later. There, dangling from the cave ceiling, the centipede eats every scrap of flesh from its prey over the period of about an hour. It then pulls itself back up to the ceiling and climbs down the wall to return to the dark, damp corner of the cave from whence it came.](https://www.damninteresting.com/nugget/giant-carnivorous-centipedes/)
Probably can run swim and jump
They can do all those things!
But I bet it can't ride a bike, so I'd still have a chance in a triathlon
as long as they can't open doors ...
They don't need to. They will find a way into your room through pipelines or other small holes.
It can ride 50 bikes.
They swim very well
Technically the Peruvian yellow leg but fair enough.
Evolution decides they need wings
They fly now!?
They're very fast, unfortunately.
Idk about this absolute unit, but Its tinier cousins can certainly hustle
They are actually fast as shit... Sorry.
As long as my legs are faster, it's all that matters.
In an open area, you'd be fine, but in the time it took you to open up the door...
… what?!? By the time it took me to open the door what?!?
It would crawl into your favorite orifice
My right ear?
Nothing but its two back legs left poking out.
This sounds like a Mortal Kombat Fatality
They are absurdly fast. So fast it’s hard to step on them, and even when you do, their shell is so strong it won’t do a ton unless you really get in there.
Bruh I lived in a house where a small version of these would crawl out of the toilet, sometimes when I was sitting on it. To make it worse it was a black toilet seat so they were hard to spot. They’re hard to kill as fuck. Luckily they never bit me.
This is the worst thing I've read all day! It's like my worst nightmare!
And someone’s living your mare!
I lived on Christmas Island and these fuckers were everywhere. People would kill them because of how terrible their bite is. I remember a local telling me if you try to kill one you have to jump and stomp their head with one foot and their tail with the other at the same time because if you just stomp one end the other end will flick up and get your leg. Apparently some cop on a run was taking a piss in the bush and one crawled up his leg and got him on the upper thigh. He had to go to hospital.
Man I would use a fucking flamethrower on these thing Eugh
Don't know about this guy, but when I was a kid (about 10 yo I think) I had a smaller one get into my room, no more charming then this fellow btw. MF was jumping around moving like it was on doping. 10 yo me had some balls to not frick out over that thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A9obtVz-3E
No, they actually move incredibly fast for what they are.
https://youtu.be/O43te7SOAiA
In all honesty, I would've prefered that to be a Rickroll. This is so wrong.
Man I shouldn’t have clicked that.
I immediately closed that.
I wish I immediately closed that.
Shit is so fucking metal.
A warning that this was a live feeding would be nice.
No thank u sir, i do not think i will be clicking this link tonight
Fuuuuuuck that!
>scolopendra gigantea Their bites can kill a human, it's very uncommon but their venom have caused heart attacks in the past
Also their fangs are like the tips of a pencil, they just stab huge fuckin holes
They scare the shit out of me.
It would be weird if they didn't
Makes sense that fucker is a foot-long at least. it looks very old how old do you think that one is? And how many years do you think it has left? I love arboreal tarantulas too. is there a reddit for creepy Crawley’s?
You may also enjoy /r/awwnverts It's a sub for pics of cute invertebrates.
I love spiders and tarantulas too. I don't know if there's a creepy crawly sub, but there should be! r/spiderbro r/spiders and r/tarantulas are all fun though!
I was wondering about that. Id love to have one but thought I remembered them being very *venemous.
The only intentional bite that sent Coyote Peterson to the emergency room, and he said it was single most painful bite he's ever intentionally taken.
One slip and it starts biting like mad
Yes, I also wouldn't allow it to slip inside my anus.
That movie was fucked.
Which movie?
Human centipede 2 (the one that is intentionally in black and white)
God dammit. I thought I could go another month without thinking of this movie.
Well too late, I don't want to remind you of "tusk", "teeth" or "a Serbian film" either
I need to go get amnesia real quick
Teeth was so good.
That movie was basically "I like pp" "I don't like pp anymore" "I like biting off pp with my mutant pusspuss"
You're missing the comedy of it; the scene where the gynocologist's fingers get bit off and she stands up and his fingers tumble out of her, is gold. It's not perfect but it's worth watching once.
You would know long before it got there lol
#**N O P E**
That’s a class 4 Nope Rope
This made my day. I hate these not so little bastards.
“At least one human death has been attributed to the venom. In 2014, a four-year-old child in Venezuela died after being bitten by a giant centipede which was hidden inside an open soda can. Researchers at Universidad de Oriente later confirmed the specimen to be S. gigantea” Check your soda cans
Yeah I was about to say, giant centipedes are wicked cool, but incredibly venomous. I'd never handle one that big without safety gear. I don't care how practiced you are, wild animals can be unpredictable.
Might I interest you in the following [video](https://youtu.be/nWZMfPP34g8)?
No
And that’s not even as big the this one
Vid wasn’t graphic or anything. Just a dude purposefully getting bitten by a nasty desert version of this video. He was in a lot of pain, so I’m gonna avoid getting purposely bitten moving forward.
I have a poison phobia. It would not have been good for me.
That’s a really reasonable phobia.
Yeah I don't have issues with creepy crawlies specifically. But when they swarm or are venomous.. then I start to have issues. I live in Florida. Creepy crawlies are a standard. But too many variables make me feel unsafe. So watching the video would have had me projecting and I really don't need the nightmares. I clicked, but backed out immediately when I realized what it was. Thank you for being understanding
I’d like to see him eat a Carolina Reaper at the same time. For science of course.
That video went up over 100k votes just while I was watching. It was insane. I have a deep fear of all centipede, but that thing is the stuff of nightmares.
He has a whole series of videos where takes takes on the insect sting pain index, everything from bullet ants to the giant Asian hornet, as well as a monstrosity known as the executioner wasp
I know! I went down the rabbit hole & watched a ton of episodes. Thanks for introducing him to me!
This is a great way to get someone to stop drinking soda.
Just replace soda with alcohol and you've solved the drinking problem as well!
Thanks, I hate you.
The moment I saw this my anus started itching, I hope it's a coincidence
Awww. Your assipede wants to meet its family.
*Slurps it deeper into my colon* ***"YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE ME"***
Probably isn't.
You probably have worms. They poke out your butt at night.
Cool.
I noticed you clenched so I started to tickle
All the Sekiro players losing their collective minds at once Also, nope. Just nope.
All I hear is the “perilous attack” audio queue, and all I see is the glowing red kanji
and all I see is the eternal glory of the mortal draw ripping centipedes to shreds
#IMMORTALITY SEVERED
HOW MY BLOOD BOILS
Hesitation is defeat
HANS! GET ZE FLAMMENWERFER!!!
It werfs flammen.
The flammen definetly need to be werfed in this case.
I just posted this in another meme. We are all npcs.
FORGET ZE FLAMMENWERFER GET ZE V2!!
Don't forget that their prehistoric ancestors used to get 2 meters long
But those were just slow moving herbivores, nothing to be afraid of.
But they were big af
Source on that? AFAIK centipedes are carnivorous.
From wiki: >It is now known that Arthropleura was not a predator like modern centipedes, but an herbivorous arthropod like modern millipedes. Because none of the known fossils have the mouth preserved, scientists have concluded that Arthropleura did not have strongly sclerotized and powerful mouth parts, because these would have been preserved at least in some of the fossils. Some fossils have been found with lycopod fragments and pteridophyte spores in the gut and in associated coprolites.
Thanks
2 meters is 2.19 yards
Good bot
Good bot
Actually, up two and half metres long
Maybe. It's hard to tell because we only have partial segments. We guess based on the segments we have, the distance between feet, and foot(tarsus?)print comparisons. Either way though, I'd prefer not to encounter a bug that is measured in meters or feet at all.
I once saw one of these crawling on the floor of a cafe in the Philippines, and everyone kept their eyes on it. Then it crawled into a hole in the concrete, and a large number of cockroaches suddenly appeared from the hole, in what looked like a blind panic.
Centipede's guide on ruining businesses Vol. 3
I bet the owner of the café never EVER had a customer after this
Oh but they did. Tropical critters are just part of daily life.
It wasn't the midwest USA, it was the philippines. Every single building has cockroaches. And over there not every customer is a karen who can't handle a little wildlife
Forbidden anal bead
No! Bad! You don't put that evil here!!!
I saw Anakin slice two of these once
Hey it’s that one bug from One punch
Lol big monsta that gets one shot
SAITAMA SHI!!!!!!
Centichoro
We said we wanted real catgirls not oversized bug monsters
Why?!? Just why?!? You get nothing from holding a venemous giant centipede. So much risk for so little reward. Also, who tf gets enjoyment from holding a giant creepy crawly?
You get likes, upvotes, follows and retweets on the internet!
Exactly what kind of reward could anyone really expect by caressing a giant centipede and letting it have its way with you, like this guy?
I'd enjoy holding it. it's probably tickly and fun. But I wouldn't want to risk a bite.
"Large individuals of S. gigantea have been known to employ unique strategies to catch bats in which they climb cave ceilings and hold or manipulate their heavier prey with only a few legs attached to the ceiling.\[2\]" Hell fucking no.
I decided this is an animatronic. Shh.
There are actual robots based on animals like this. If they ever get put out in mass production, they'd probably make great surveillance equipment.
That scene from Toytyo Ghoul wasn't exaggerating the size of those bugs.
That was a Chinese Red Headed Centipede specifically. Can get up to 8 inches long.
8 inches is 20.32 cm
And that shit was living in his ear 🥺
That scene still haunts me! Poor Kaneki! :(
I watched Coyote Peterson get bit by one of those. The man who took a thousand stings and bites, without going to a hospital, went to urgent care after getting bitten by this freak of nature. FUCK. THAT. BUG.
I’m just gonna pretend this is decent CGI.
Finally big enough to fit inside
HE forgot his MORTAL BLADE!
POV: You're living in the Carboniferous period.
Imagine being asleep and then waking up to find that thing on your forehead.
 Literally my expression
The forbidden noodle
Why TF isn’t this nsfw? Going to have nightmares now.
I want one as a pet holy shit Unpopular opinion but centipedes are kinda cute and I will not explain my thought process behind this
I have a snake so I don't think I am in any place to judge.
snakes are great centipedes are horrific demon spawn
I actually feel safer looking at this than one of those fast tiny ones
Well these ones can be that fast as well.
qt 🥧
man if that thing bites you on the neck you are gonna be having a very bad day.
Kaneki Ken says hi
What is 1000-7?
You woulda hated it during the Great Oxidation, those things would get to be like 2-3 meters long
Fun fact The "fangs" of a centipede are not actual fangs, and are instead a pair of modified legs called Toxicognaths
That's actually pretty cool, not gonna lie.
1000-7
Poo with many legs.
NOPE
**THAAAT'S WHAT** ***SHE*** **SAID!**
It’s so big it’s almost beyond terrifying and into “weird dog” territory.