Showing posts with label Centipedes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Centipedes. Show all posts

Friday, September 24, 2010

Scaring Centipedes are beautiful!



One day I was walking barefooted on the cellar of the house. I felt a pinching pain on one of my toes. I found a vermin move away from my foot. It is the Common Centipede (Scutigera forceps, 'Pooraan' in Tamil)! Though its name implies that it has hundred legs, it has only fifteen pairs of legs.

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