Comment on legs to die for

• Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata

  Commonly known as a house or carpet centipede.

  The drawing is mostly accurate.

  source

  • Land_Strider@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨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.

    source

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨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

      :::spoiler cursed: Image Image :::

      source
    • sverit@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They are extremely soft to the touch W H A T?

      source
  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Its small forcipules have difficulty penetrating

    Aww it’s okay, lil Scucoleo

    Thems “silverfish” or naw?

    source

    • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Naw, silverfish look like this.

      source