Welcome to this bilingual (Swedish-English) group blog by family members living on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, "the pond". Our interests range from the scientific to the eclectic, including gourmet food, horses, art and literature, computers, species in nature, history and iron, and photography. Three generations are posting here.
This is a House centipede Scutigera coleoptrata. I found it on the room wall a night in May. It's incredibly fast and is almost flat, but I got it! On the picture it's in a plastic jar. I wouldn't want to handle it, LS told me it bites as well. I released it outside after the photos were taken.
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Labels: animals, insects, New Jersey, photo
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Creeeeeeeeeeeepy crawly - this one I remember! It was hiding under the molding surrounding the window and these centipedes do bite. The ones in the tropics are especially bad. They are hunters, just like spiders, and I guess this one was hunting lady bugs in our guest room. I have only seen this species twice in our house, when EH was here, and O.K. found one in the basement too earlier.
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