centipede poisonous Arkansas Giant Red-Headed Centipede 07 29 08

Arkansas Giant Red-Headed Centipede

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20 cm in length !

These fast moving and aggressive titans are among the largest of the many-legged centipedes and millipedes, the group collectively known as the Myriapoda.

Scolopendra heros is purported to make tiny incisions with its legs while walking across human skin. When the animal is irritated, a poison is supposedly produced near the base of each leg and dropped into the wounds causing inflammation and irritation. According to one story cited by Dr. Baerg, an officer in the Confederate Army, while sleeping in his tent, was suddenly aroused by the creepy feeling of a large centipede crawling on his chest. A number of spots of deep red, forming a broad streak, indicated the arthropods passage across the mans chest and abdomen. Violent pain and convulsions soon set in, accompanied by excessive swelling in the bitten area. The victim fought with death for two days and then succumbed. The agony suffered by the bitten officer was described by an eyewitness as the most frightful he had ever observed. The famed arthopod scientist J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson once explained that centipedes seem to exert a weird fascination on the morbid appetites of the hysterical and insane. http://www.uark.edu/ua/arthmuse/shero...

centipede poisonous Arkansas Giant Red-Headed Centipede 07 29 08
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