Ryan - 2010-04-29 I don't have time or room to go into detail about the article and comments left here, so I will have to keep it brief. These can inflict a serious bite, but only as a defensive mechanism, they aren't aggressive. They are good for your environment, and should be left alone outside if possible. However, they are dangerous to small dogs, elderly, and children. If you find one and are worried about bites, but do not want to kill it, catch it and email me and I will pick it up, and send it to a breeder, scientist, or zoo. They are sold in lps for less than $20, you could maybe sell them for $7. I cannot pay for them though. This is done as a hobby and I lose money on cages, shipping material, feeders, and gas. So if you want to save their life, I will take them, but I will not pay. The high price mentioned below is generally only gotten overseas where you are required to have thousands of dollars in permits to ship them, so they are not worth $75! You can get more than $7 if you are well known in the right circles and regularly frequent the right websites, but it is hobby, education, and research for most of us, so don't expect to get much for them. You can email me for pick up @ Nomadinexile@hushmail.com
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Ryan - 2010-05-10 There are a few color patterns worth a bit more. If you live around Medicine Lodge in Kansas, please contact me if you can find them, we can work something out. Also, I would be able to get a bit more for the red and black stripe form from Southeast corner of AZ, Northwest corner of NM. These are only found in the Peloncillo mountains and the Pedregosa mountains that I'm aware of. You can contact me for more information, but keep in mind, that you aren't going to get rich collecting centipedes!
haylee - 2011-07-01 Hey I saw a orange centipede but it was a baby in our bathroom and we never saw a centipede in our house or anywhere before. It was all orange though. Can it be highly poisonous or poisonous at all???
mike - 2011-05-30 I found some huge insects in my pool. I live in upstate NY on the Hudson. They were black and brown in color and had pinchers. It had what looked like 3 section body head, mid and tale. It had 4 long legs and what looked like legs along the rest of it. It was like 3 in long anyone know what it is?
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Charlie Roche - 2011-05-30 I have no idea. In Florida, we had things that looked like a beetle with 3 parts to the body. They had a head, a mid section and a sorta triagular tail. There were two pincer things at the top of the head and four legs. They would dig holes into the soil and you'd have these little mounds all over. They came once a year in the summer and then they would just go away. People there just said they were beetles but sure didn't look like a regular beetle to me. Nuisance too with all the mounds.
Jennifer - 2009-10-22 My husband found one of the red headed desert centipedes this morning curled up on our staircase in North West San Antonio. He actually thought our dog had an accident and when he went to clean it up, he noticed its red head and legs. It was still alive so we scooped it into a box and put it in our trash bin outside. Do these things like to come indoors? It was very rainy last night so maybe it was trying to stay dry? Are they poisonous to dogs? I'm so creeped out!
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zoey - 2010-05-22 They are poisonous to dogs humans etc. But are not deadly here's an ad I found
The Giant Desert Centipede is one of the world's largest species of centipede, not to mention, one of the prettiest. Although the venom from this centipede is not considered deadly, the Giant Desert Centipede can give a very painful bite and the venom injected could leave a person in pain from anywhere between a couple hours to a couple days! In 1931, a centipede taxonomist by the name of G. Attems listed three subspecies of Giant Desert Centipedes. These are the: Red-Headed Centipede (Scolopendra h. castaneiceps); as shown to the left, a beautiful jet black centipede with a red head and yellow legs, the Black-Tailed, also known as the Blue-Tailed Centipede (Scolopendra h. heros); a yellowish centipede with light yellow legs and a blue to navy blue tail, and lastly the Giant Arizona Desert, or Black-Headed Centipede (Scolopendra h. arizonensis); a red or orange centipede with yellow legs and a black head and tail, some with black stripes running across the tergites, parallel to the legs. The Giant Desert Centipede is a great display animal, and is a prized invertebrate in any collection.
Scott - 2010-06-08 Yeah, they're poisonous, I just got bit this morning in Oklahoma City at Lake Hefner. Had to go to the Dr. before anaphalactic shock set in(I might be allergic). Those suckers move very fast, crawled up my swim trunks while I was fishing, and bit me when I sat on it.
john - 2009-11-19 For those that find it necessary to kill these, they play a vital role in the ecosystem in that they can fill the role of a small reptile eating germ carrying roaches that like to get in your cupboards and pantries and disease carrying mice that live around or sometimes in your houses. They also prey on scorpions as well which pack a lot more punch and can be dangerous to your children i.e. bark scorpions. So when you decide to kill one just remember your doing more harm than good.
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casey - 2010-06-11 I don't care... if it is in my house I will kill it. I have found 4 in my bedroom in the last 24 hours and I have a small 5 pound dog that could be seriously hurt. I wont bother them if they are outside but I am not going to catch and release them so they can come back in my house. Everything plays a role in the ecosystem even disease carrying mice, but I am sure you don't want to sleep with those either.
zoey - 2010-05-22 Today my family and I went swimming in our pool and I almost stepped on one. (and of course since I hate bugs and had never seen one of those before I screamed.) My dad told me to look it up and I found this page. I thought it was pretty cool when I read about it but we still have it in a tiny container so I guess I better get a bigger one. :)
Derek Waddington - 2010-02-21 I'm a cryptozoologist. Thats a person who studies animals that; 1. havent been discovered yet, 2. weird animals, and 3. animals that are thought to be extinct. So, as you can imagine when I first saw the centipede on a site called www.cryptozoology.com that my interset in the bug went off the charts. If anyone can tell me more about the centipede please email me.
The Giant Desert Centipede is quite attractive, but it has a very unattractive bite!
I found a navy blue centapeid with yellow marks on it sides. Anybody ever heard or seen one. In Oakland C.A.
I don't have time or room to go into detail about the article and comments left here, so I will have to keep it brief. These can inflict a serious bite, but only as a defensive mechanism, they aren't aggressive. They are good for your environment, and should be left alone outside if possible. However, they are dangerous to small dogs, elderly, and children. If you find one and are worried about bites, but do not want to kill it, catch it and email me and I will pick it up, and send it to a breeder, scientist, or zoo. They are sold in lps for less than $20, you could maybe sell them for $7. I cannot pay for them though. This is done as a hobby and I lose money on cages, shipping material, feeders, and gas. So if you want to save their life, I will take them, but I will not pay. The high price mentioned below is generally only gotten overseas where you are required to have thousands of dollars in permits to ship them, so they are not worth $75! You can get more than $7 if you are well known in the right circles and regularly frequent the right websites, but it is hobby, education, and research for most of us, so don't expect to get much for them. You can email me for pick up @ Nomadinexile@hushmail.com
There are a few color patterns worth a bit more. If you live around Medicine Lodge in Kansas, please contact me if you can find them, we can work something out. Also, I would be able to get a bit more for the red and black stripe form from Southeast corner of AZ, Northwest corner of NM. These are only found in the Peloncillo mountains and the Pedregosa mountains that I'm aware of. You can contact me for more information, but keep in mind, that you aren't going to get rich collecting centipedes!
Oh and I live in AZ mesa.
Hey I saw a orange centipede but it was a baby in our bathroom and we never saw a centipede in our house or anywhere before. It was all orange though. Can it be highly poisonous or poisonous at all???
I found some huge insects in my pool. I live in upstate NY on the Hudson.
They were black and brown in color and had pinchers. It had what looked like 3 section body head, mid and tale. It had 4 long legs and what looked like legs along the rest of it. It was like 3 in long anyone know what it is?
I have no idea. In Florida, we had things that looked like a beetle with 3 parts to the body. They had a head, a mid section and a sorta triagular tail. There were two pincer things at the top of the head and four legs. They would dig holes into the soil and you'd have these little mounds all over. They came once a year in the summer and then they would just go away. People there just said they were beetles but sure didn't look like a regular beetle to me. Nuisance too with all the mounds.
My husband found one of the red headed desert centipedes this morning curled up on our staircase in North West San Antonio. He actually thought our dog had an accident and when he went to clean it up, he noticed its red head and legs. It was still alive so we scooped it into a box and put it in our trash bin outside. Do these things like to come indoors? It was very rainy last night so maybe it was trying to stay dry? Are they poisonous to dogs? I'm so creeped out!
They are poisonous to dogs humans etc. But are not deadly here's an ad I found
The Giant Desert Centipede is one of the world's largest species of centipede, not to mention, one of the prettiest. Although the venom from this centipede is not considered deadly, the Giant Desert Centipede can give a very painful bite and the venom injected could leave a person in pain from anywhere between a couple hours to a couple days! In 1931, a centipede taxonomist by the name of G. Attems listed three subspecies of Giant Desert Centipedes. These are the: Red-Headed Centipede (Scolopendra h. castaneiceps); as shown to the left, a beautiful jet black centipede with a red head and yellow legs, the Black-Tailed, also known as the Blue-Tailed Centipede (Scolopendra h. heros); a yellowish centipede with light yellow legs and a blue to navy blue tail, and lastly the Giant Arizona Desert, or Black-Headed Centipede (Scolopendra h. arizonensis); a red or orange centipede with yellow legs and a black head and tail, some with black stripes running across the tergites, parallel to the legs. The Giant Desert Centipede is a great display animal, and is a prized invertebrate in any collection.
Yeah, they're poisonous, I just got bit this morning in Oklahoma City at Lake Hefner. Had to go to the Dr. before anaphalactic shock set in(I might be allergic). Those suckers move very fast, crawled up my swim trunks while I was fishing, and bit me when I sat on it.
Wow! How long was it?
For those that find it necessary to kill these, they play a vital role in the ecosystem in that they can fill the role of a small reptile eating germ carrying roaches that like to get in your cupboards and pantries and disease carrying mice that live around or sometimes in your houses. They also prey on scorpions as well which pack a lot more punch and can be dangerous to your children i.e. bark scorpions. So when you decide to kill one just remember your doing more harm than good.
I don't care... if it is in my house I will kill it. I have found 4 in my bedroom in the last 24 hours and I have a small 5 pound dog that could be seriously hurt. I wont bother them if they are outside but I am not going to catch and release them so they can come back in my house. Everything plays a role in the ecosystem even disease carrying mice, but I am sure you don't want to sleep with those either.
Sorry John.
Why do they eat insects I thought they would eat vegetation instead?
Why they have the acid then and how offcurse for killing bugs.
Today my family and I went swimming in our pool and I almost stepped on one. (and of course since I hate bugs and had never seen one of those before I screamed.) My dad told me to look it up and I found this page. I thought it was pretty cool when I read about it but we still have it in a tiny container so I guess I better get a bigger one. :)
I'm a cryptozoologist. Thats a person who studies animals that; 1. havent been discovered yet, 2. weird animals, and 3. animals that are thought to be extinct. So, as you can imagine when I first saw the centipede on a site called www.cryptozoology.com that my interset in the bug went off the charts. If anyone can tell me more about the centipede please email me.