What is this 28-legged monster in my kitchen?

[iamthewalrus_3]

There is simply no non-evil purpose that many legs could be put to.

[DSYoungEsq]

@Apex_Rogers

See post #14

Whooosh.

[Magiver]

@InterestedObserver

Nope, sorry. Not a Crane Fly. I wish I had a picture. It looked like a large, slightly fat mosquito, similar wing and body structure, with a head/proboscis like a hummingbird. Was black. The first few times I encountered one, I thought it was a mosquito, but it was much “beefier” and once it bit you, you knew it was not the run of the mill mosquito.

Thanks for the suggestion. I will have to do some research and see if I can find anything like it.

I don’t think they sting but there is a moth that looks like a hummingbird. It even drinks nectar the same way.

[SCSimmons]

@Cornelius_Tuggerson

There are 15’ versions that live in South America and eat mice and bats.

:eek: … and pigs, and llamas, and cows, and hippopotamuses …

@Apex_Rogers

Inches would be the correct measure.

Oh, thank the gods.

[Apex_Rogers]

@DSYoungEsq

Whooosh.

Yeah, I noticed after the fact that astro had managed to post the same video I did. Still, the comment seems a bit odd to me, what with the video only being posted twice. I would expect such a comment if something was repeatedly linked several times over the course of the thread, not twice in a simulpost.

[FilmGeek]

I woke up at my brother’s house with a centipede on my chest.

I will NEVER sleep at his house again.

[Marlitharn]

@Apex_Rogers

Centipede - Wikipedia

Here’s a really cool (or gross/scary I suppose) video of one eating a friggen’ mouse. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CL2hetqpfg

AAAAHHHHGGGGGHHHHH!!! EW EW EW EW EW!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!

I mean, isn’t nature fascinating?

shudder twitch

[brujaja]

@RickJay

Now imagine it’s tonight and you’re going to bed. You get into your pyjamas or whatever, turn off the lights, and hop into bed.

… and the mother clenches onto you with all her strength, and she bites, and bites, and bites.

Sweet dreams!

been there, done that.

[Henrichek]

Threads such as this one remind me of how lucky I am to live in a subarctic climate.

[Alan_Smithee]

You know, the more I look at these things and read about them, the more fascinated by them I am. I actually think I’d love to keep one in a jar and watch it. I wonder where I could get a house centipede around here. (Here being southern Colorado.) Dealers seem to like bigger, more exotic centipedes more than common house centipedes.