Insects have 6 legs. If I had to guess its a centipede drawn with too many legs per segment.
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1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 8 months ago
What kind of insect is that? I can’t think of anything with that many legs that eats cockroaches.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Cypher@lemmy.world 8 months ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata
Commonly known as a house or carpet centipede.
The drawing is mostly accurate.
Land_Strider@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve encountered these guys all my life. They are mostly small skittering puffy-stretches at a glance, but sometimes they can look like their red headed larger and snake-eating relatives at 4-5cm lengths.
They are extremely soft to the touch, as if a very light breeze just brushed off your arm hair. What I didn’t know is that they are like cats in this behaviour:
House centipedes have been observed to groom their legs by curling around and grooming them with their forcipules.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Forcipules are the modified, pincer-like, front legs of centipedes that are used to inject venom into prey. They are the only known examples of front legs acting as venom injectors.
Thank goodness
Also the image is
sverit@feddit.de 8 months ago
They are extremely soft to the touch W H A T?
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Its small forcipules have difficulty penetrating
Aww it’s okay, lil Scucoleo
Thems “silverfish” or naw?
samus12345@lemmy.world 8 months ago
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Silverfish?
kautau@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nope, house centipede, as they’re commonly known
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Seems like those are what my roommates incorrectly call silverfish
Poik@pawb.social 8 months ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverfish are also pests. They eat books.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Are there silverfish big enough to eat roaches?
survivalmachine@beehaw.org 8 months ago
House centipede