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[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Like the stretched limo of a beetle. But also with the most horriblist type of spider legs

[–] frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

🤓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

edit for additional infodumping: their venom injecting apparatuses are modified legs called forcipules or toxicognaths, and they are the only known animal with such features.

[–] CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

My favorite myriapod is Arthropleura. Imagine a millipede the length of a car!

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Have you ever gotten to see one IRL?

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 6 days ago

no, I don't think I will.

"Arthropleura (Greek for 'jointed ribs') is an extinct genus..."

Thank fuck

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Imagine how they’d all feel making purchase on your soft throat tissue as it forces its way down your throat

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago

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.