Submitted 3 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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…the species is known by many common names, including jungle centipede, orange-legged centipede, Hawaiian centipede, and Vietnamese centipede.
…it is also found on virtually all land areas around and within the Indian Ocean, all of tropical and subtropical Asia from Russia to the islands of Malaysia and Indonesia, Australia, South and Central America, the Caribbean islands, and possibly parts of the southern United States…
That’s not centipede, I counted only 17x2=34 legs! Its 34-pede!
Well, to be fair, a centurion commanded les than one hundred people…
And no such century lasted for a century either.
Looks like a dick with a toupe
ur a dick with a toupe
No I’m a dick with a full head of flowing lovely hair
Centipedes are the absolute worst of the worst in terms of disturbing insects. I can’t even look at one without my brain vividly simulating the way all of those crispy little legs would feel clinging along the length of my arm.
🤓uhm ackhtually centipedes are not insects but are members of a different group of arthropods called Myriapods, along with everyone’s favorite detritivores the millipedes
My favorite myriapod is Arthropleura. Imagine a millipede the length of a car!
Imagine how they’d all feel making purchase on your soft throat tissue as it forces its way down your throat
I saw a video once of a giant centipede devouring a live mouse, and it still fucks with me every time I think of it. I still remember that mouse’s eyes.
Like the stretched limo of a beetle.
A wild false eyelash appears
House centipedes are entirely harmless. I would be happy and honored to see one skittering around in my home. They eat harmful things.
Also myriapods (centipedes and millipedes) are not bugs.
Knowledgeable identification of an insect from the photo with cited reasoning: nice.
Dick joke : 4x the upvotes.
It’s not an insect.
Corrected. One pedant point awarded.
Not a clue… But it is his hotdog/sossage/wiener now.
A deadipede if I ever see one
noooo it just wants to fertilize your hotdogs it didn’t do anything wrong
For a second I thought this said “Hotdog for Sale”.
No, I would not purchase it.
I do understand why they want to sell it thought.
Gicho is a delicacy, you shouldn’t turn your nose up at it.
I’m more worried about that thing turning up my nose.
Is it a hot dog when it’s neither cooked or in a bun??
Yes. You are describing a sandwich, not a hot dog.
Nope. That’s just an uncooked sausage.
Depending on your definition of ‘bun’, the centipede could be the bun here.
Needs more fur to be a bun.
That’s a scalopendra, very venomous.
Not my proudest fap.
Wow I sure don’t like that:(
The kind that killed an idiot mukbang streamer in China.
Dude I remember visiting the Caribbean, a car ran over one of these lengthwise and it was badly injured but alive.
Where the what the fuck??m
The car was alive?
Yes. Haven’t you read Stephen king’s A Buick 8?
No, hot dog for centipede. It can fucking have it.
That’s an exotic condiment
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That centipede is hung
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is that a hotdog or are you just happy to see me? 🥹😍
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
let’s do a taste test to find out, nomnom
tom and jerry scream
nexguy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You aint kidding… HUNGry