I’m still skeptical about the dog… Even pets who’ve never had cancer sometimes just die for no particular reason. Heck, even humans do. And if there were centipedes in the area that lethal, there’d be dogs (and humans) dying right and left. And I don’t even see any evidence that the 'pede bit the dog at all: All you said you saw was the dog shaking it off of her head. Which is frankly exactly what I would do, as soon as a centipede crawled onto my head: I wouldn’t wait for it to bite me first.
Meanwhile, I assumed at first that Tenebrosus was male not because of any assumptions about writing style or profession, but because of the second-declension ending on the name. Of course, being a biologist, that’s probably a taxonomic classification, and not a human name at all.
Hi there Tenbrosus another vote for you to stick around, I’m also somewhat interested in this whole area (I did toxicology for my masters degree and my undergraduate project involved studying phoneutria nigriventer venom). I can sympathise a bit in terms of the general lack of accuracy on spider venom stories. I tend to find that just about every poisonous animal on the planet seems to have a dozen associated shaggy dog stories about the horrible and gruesome things that can happen to you if you get bitten (or otherwise envenomated), and it’s definately one of those “everyone’s an expert” fields, mainly because everyone remembers gruesome stories .
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I’m still skeptical about the dog… Even pets who’ve never had cancer sometimes just die for no particular reason. Heck, even humans do. And if there were centipedes in the area that lethal, there’d be dogs (and humans) dying right and left. And I don’t even see any evidence that the 'pede bit the dog at all: All you said you saw was the dog shaking it off of her head. Which is frankly exactly what I would do, as soon as a centipede crawled onto my head: I wouldn’t wait for it to bite me first.
Chronos…I would not want to serve Jury Duty with you. We may have a conflict with evaluating evidence,either hard or a preponderence. I’m not the kind of person who needs to get the last word in and I do respect your opinion. I’m convinced my animal was killed by the centipede bite/sting. the dog was asleep. she was not awakened by me petting her or by something crawling on her. She was awaken by pain, she pawed at her head and it took awhile for her to calm down after I killed the C’pede. I don’t remember a yelp or sound. She had a bout of cancer as a young dog that may have been in remission or may not, she was an otherwise healthy animal. I beleive her death was a result of the bite/sting. This was the largest C’pede I have ever seen and this post is to warn other people not to fool around with these things especially if your immune system has been comprimised.This happened in '82 and I have not seen or encountered another Centepede.
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