Back when I was 7 years old living in Guyana 🇬🇾 I got bit 3x in a row. We were leaving for a wedding and running late so naturally, you’re being rushed. Every time my grandma yelled at me to put my shoes on I screamed in pain and immediately started crying. What we didn’t know was in my shiny black dress shoes, A GIANT RED/BLACK CENTIPEDE was stinging me as she was scolding me to put my feet in the shoes😂These things are known to bring a grown man down
Thanks! I wish I could agree about my artworks. Every time I look at any drawing/painting I’ve done, I start noticing more and more imperfections until the whole thing looks like rubbish.
Excellent video!! Very gentle and light music in the background that isn't overbearing. Very informative and that one centipede crawling on the arm sent shivers down my spine. Loved it!
Yeah I still remember how it completely took me by surprise. When Attenborough said “it’s after bigger prey” I thought it’d be something like a spider, not a bat.
Gotta love the Tavern Music in the backround. These things you would expect horror music but the Tavern music gives it nice calm contrast to the subject of highly predatory arthropods
It dipped well below -40C here a few days about a month ago. Whenever i get grumpy about the weather I watch a video such as this and happily bundle up.
This was a good video. I would love to see something like this featuring non-Scolopendrium centipedes. We always get house centipedes where I live and would love to know about their varieties elsewhere.
BRO NO THEY AINT THEY LOOK STRAIGHT OUT OF HELL BRO FUCK CENTIPEDES THEY SHOULD ALL DIE WHY ARE THEY EVEN CREATED BRO THEY ARE THE MOST UGLY THING EVER
hell yeah more sick centipede info! i have a preserved dehaani framed in my room and i always wondered how big it is compared to other giant centipedes. good to know it's in the top 5!
I really enjoyed this video. I’ve been trying to research different types of centipedes, and have not been able to find much out there, so this was exactly the kind of video I have been looking for. Thanks
Never has an educational & informative video like this had such fewer view counts than what it deserves! I still find it challenging to distinguish between _galapagoensis_ & true _gigantea_ . They look extremely alike in both dark & red variants. Is there any special feature to look for? I read that we can tell from the ultimate legs which common Asian Pacific species a particular individual is. Can we apply the same to South American giants?
Thanks! Basically, black Scolopendra gigantea can be distinguished from the dark S. galapagoensis via the following: on S. gigantea the pleural membrane is dark, while it’s pale in S. galapagoensis. And S. galapagoensis have bicolour antennae, while those of S. gigantea are fully black. Orange S. galapagoensis are more…well…orange than the gold/brown variant of S. gigantea. S. gigantea also tend to get significantly larger than S. galapagoensis, and have proportionally longer legs (unless you’re talking about the island S. galapagoensis).
@@BugsandBiology Thanks for your reply! Even among the exotic realm, there're not many people interested in centipedes. Hard to find someone discussing such issues. Besides, I've just started keeping two sub-adult Darwin's Goliath centipedes ( _S. galapagoensis_ ), dark variants. They're explosive as my other Asian tropical species! But one very interesting difference is that these two South American myriapods are mighty diggers. Even with a deep substrate layer, they still managed to get down into the drainage layers of the tanks. I'm wondering if this is their natural behavior on the island to get away from danger. Other species of mine just don't get that deep down. P.S. I've kept two dark Southeast Asian individuals with an unknown identity (dubbed "button black giant" by the pet shop). I'd like to have your opinion on them. I suspect them to be an island variant of _S. dehaani_ (they've got long ultimate legs, dark trunks, brown legs with yellow antennas). Perhaps, I'll take a footage on them to be uploaded on TH-cam. Another two individuals I've got are the "Sulawesi giant" ( _S. piceoflava_ ) with beautiful tiger-like patterns. They're also explosive like cheetahs. Like you said, Asian-Pacific centipedes are fascinating, just like those South American prehistoric arthropods.
Your channel is so awesome man. I really love this video. Centipedes really are awesome and brutal creatures. Btw where did you find that scolopendra galapagoensis vs scorpion here in your short clip coz I wanna see how the centipede dominates the scorpion there.
My mouth dropped at 11:50.. I'd seen the pictures but in a lot of them I figured people were trying to show off their centipedes, so they'd pull little camera tricks to make them look just a bit larger than they were. That thing at 11:50 is longer than that person's forearm.. Even if that was a child it would be scary, but I have a sneaking suspicion that no child would ever hold something like that. Jeeeeeeesus
@@queensapphire7717I am still more afraid of scorpions because where I live it's easier for me to accidentally put my hand on top of a scorpion than a centipede
Spiders are bad but centipedes activate every single defensive and offensive response in my body, I would gladly settle on another planet just to dodge the opportunity of crossing paths with one of any size beyond that of a fun size Mars bar.
Having been bitten as a very young kid (I was 8 or 9 years old and it bloody well hurt! More so than any wasp or bee sting!) in the UK by a British centipede, I now give them a lot of respect. i.e. I don't normally pick them up but let them on their way. I had a father who was a marine biologist so hunting, collecting and identifying all sorts of arthropods in British wood piles was always a weekend joy. But these foot long giants. Frighteningly awesome. Totally spectacular. Stunning hunters. Have I seen any this size before? Yes! In zoo's. But there was glass between _it_ and _me_ so I was more than happy to get really close to look at it. Would I ever pick one up? Get stuffed! Been bitten by that little British one was enough. Thank you. As the old saying goes. *_Bitten once. Carless. Bitten twice. Foolish._* ;-))... EDIT - Forgot to say. Great and informative video. Not like some other videos we see on YT that are all full of errors and misinformation. EDIT 2 - I just had to subscribe after your last comment. _"... If you didn't, who gives a f***!"_ ;-))...
Just like you, I was pincered by a British centipede when I was 11 or 12 years old. I found it under a piece of wood and thought what a good idea it would be to pick it up....WRONG!!! The pain I felt was so intense that the memory stayed with me all my life and I'm in my 70's, now. 😩
@@esoxlucius6884 Hahaha. I'm 63 and I can still remember the shock of being bitten by that centipede. Even flapping my hand didn't shake the bugger off me. It clung on like a bulldog. 😂😅🤣
They eat bats! Love that you use references. Have seen giant centipedes offered at expos for dirt cheap. Never wanted one, but now I do thanks to binge-watching your videos
Ciao! Ho trovato molto interessante il tuo video e penso sia il più accurato che ho visto fino ad ora. Ho una domanda: possiedo una deheani vietnamita red leg,in quale classificazione è inserita?
I don’t suppose you (or anyone) would know the best humidity and temperature range for both the black and orange scolopendra galapagonensis. I have a Peru white leg which of course needs to be kept dry and not that warm but I brought one of each galapo and I wasn’t sure if they could handle more humid and hot conditions or whether they need to be kept dry as well. I usually have a dry and wet end of the enclosure but I know there is a lot of incorrect information about these on the internet so wanted to check. Always enjoy your videos as there isn’t a great deal of centipede videos :). If you want I’ll make a video of my collection (I have 9 centipedes) and around 20 millipedes if you were interested. Thanks again.
No animal on Earth creep me out more than centipedes but they are still fascinating. I'm glad we don't have any species that grow to be more than a couple of inches long here in Norway where I live.
Is it possible to get the link of the original video from the the first two seconds where the massive centipede rushes at the tarentula at the speed of light? I'd like to see that. Thank you.
The most painful bite on earth. I had been stung once during my national service while cleaning up coconut and palm leaves in a hospital during our visit there for community service.Luckily I was rushed to the treatment area and received 2 jabs of painkiller and serum.The pain was terrible and you can't sleep and it was sore and the third day it came with an itch but if you scratch it,pain came along.
I've kept Scolopendra dehaani, the largest was 34cm not including the terminal legs. The sternites and tergites were black, light grey pleural membranes and bright red legs. Although the big centipedes were fun, I prefer the little flag tails (Alipes). The neat chirping shound they make is really neat
@@BugsandBiology It’s worth noting that Scolopendra sp. “Garnet” is a recent split from dehaani and seems to be larger (I’ve seen an unusually large one approaching 30cm), making it quite possibly the largest non-South American centipede.
When my brother worked in a produce store as a teen in the ‘80s, he told me spiders would sometimes hide in the bananas as they give off heat when they ripen, I wonder if a centipede ever hitched a ride, he never came across one of those in a banana bunch in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. I need to ask a good friend of mine, who lived in Colombia for 5 years, if he came across that gigantia species.
Hi mate, great stuff as usual. If anyone can help, I would be interested to know what size your average funnel web is on the Central Coast. I moved to Mt Elliot near Gosford recently and I am quite surprised by the size of our funnel webs. I know the guys at Gosford Reptile Park have had some big ones but thought these had come from much further up the coast. The last one we had in the house was a male and large enough to be temporarily misidentified as the house Huntsman we call Frank when we saw it in a darkened room. Having grown up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, this is shockingly large to me.
Centipedes are the creature I fear the most. I saw these creatures in action biting people... even if the person tries to shake it, it won't go anywhere... and the only way this thing dies is by cutting it to pieces.
Your channel has quickly become my favourite. The only thing I hate is that medieval music 🎶 lol. Seems like it's become abit of a signature though. 🙉 keep up the great content! 👍
Yeah I know my music choice is pretty unorthodox, especially given the content, but I figured I’d best opt for something relaxing given how feared these animals are.
Love your channel could you possibly recommend a reputable dealer who ships to the U.S. I have seen a few invertebrate sellers and they only carry the smaller species such as Heros and the species in southern Florida. One seller did offer the larger ones but said they couldn't ship the dehannai because of restrictions, I just didn't feel comfortable purchasing before asking your expert advice on the authenticity of the possible sellers you may know, and any other tips you might be kind enough to offer. Thank you for any info and again your channel is awsome!!
Thanks! Unfortunately, being in Australia, I have basically zero knowledge of overseas breeders/sellers. Might be worth poking around on Facebook or something.
As a tree trimmer in Hawaii I encountered large centipedes I had to deal with them as long as you don't bite me I will never intentionally kill one I felt it was bad luck to do so but I had no idea they got as big as these
It’s worth noting that the top three on this list are all matriphagous. They’re big even in their second instar (bigger than the subadults of most other Scolopendra). I’ve seen a 35+cm “white legs” in person (mascot of a now-closed invert store near me). Thing was so massive-almost 5cm across-that it didn’t look real, and visitors often had to be reassured that yes, it was an actual live centipede and yes, it was that huge. (There was a time when the shop owner fed the beast with a recently deceased tarantula while I and a few other visitors watched, that was something to see).
Matriphagy seems to be a trait unique to the South American giants. In addition to those three, Scolopendra angulata and (I believe) S. viridicornis are matriphagous as well. And yeah, I’ve heard they’re extremely fast growers, especially in early life. Seem to put on an insane amount of size with each molt. Can only imagine what it’d be like to see a 35cm+ centipede in the flesh. Here in Australia, anything over 15cm is big, and 18-20cm centipedes look huge to me.
@@BugsandBiology You really can’t understand how fucking massive a 35cm centipede is until you see one. The largest native centipedes here in Korea are S. mutilans which still gets to around 10-12cm.
U should come in Guadeloupe (France) near US, the giganteas here don't look like other centipede . I think u should study them, and they're so smart, but can be so wild too, I love them
i had a couple dehanni’s a few years ago and for the brief time i was in the keeping hobby i quickly found out how much misinformation and just lack of info on centipedes there is. Nice to see some accurate stuff. But why is the white leg undescribed? what’s stopping the formal describing of it? it’s been around for quite a while now. Also those small eucalyptus centipedes u found in your other vids, if they’re undescribed then why not collect some specimens and get em named? i’m assuming there’s more to it than i understand.
I've asked in other centipede videos. In the central highlands of Vietnam, I ran into centipedes the had a unique defense. When threatened (rolled on in your sleep) each segment had two glands the sprayed acid. The locals warned me that this burned, which I never tested. But I did test that they squirted a tiny stream, at the threat, as far as a foot away. What were these, that were seemingly unique? And do other centipedes have this defense? Thx.
Very interesting I live i the Kingom of Tonga, northern island group Vava'u We have diffrent cenipedes here, colour ranges from sometimes blueish to reddish into real dark and black, the bigg ones can get up to 20 cm, that wou,d be big but not rare, i have seen some with maybe up to 25 cm, maybe 3 in 25 years! The big ones bite is ver very painfull, swells up a lot and normalyget infected after about 24 to 48 hours. We uss hot water right after the bite to ,eep the swelling down, it works! I have been bitten many many times by mostly smaller ones below 20 cm, still hurts still swells up and still get infected! Thank man Gunter
0:17 wow, just something I am glad not to worry about being inside my boot or under my pillow. I don’t think I would ever get over it, I would have PTSD, and the S is for Scolopendra. Looks like the “Arnold Schwarzenegger” version of the species with those forcipules.
When i was a kid, living in Oklahoma (USA), we came across a massive centipede that was easily over a foot in length (approx 30 cm). I would say this individual was closer to two feet, or 60 cm in length. I remember that it was a massive thing because even my parents freaked out about it (it was in our home somehow) and my dad wouldn't go near the thing. It was vacuumed up and spent the rest of its days in the vacuum container. I think my dad took a picture of it, but if i have seen it, it's been years. I wish i could identify this centipede, as it seems to be one hell of an outlier.
The biggest centipede found in Oklahoma is Scolopendra heros. They only get about 6-8 inches counting body length alone. (not measuring antennae/terminals) if you measure the entire centipede then it ends up being about 8-10" at most I believe.
@@mikejessmax if you are small all things seem bigger, but I would not dismiss all claims of Giant animals since having an native backrground thought me not all things/animals are as they seem
ive seen them 40cm long in new zealand and the old guy that run the old train station where we found them said he used to see them as long as his arm and that would make them 50 to 60 cm long.
I keep coming back to this video. I want a gigantea black morph sooo bad I’m thinking about flying to Venezuela catching one and finding a way to ship it to the US
What is the most docile species of giant centipede ? If there is such a thing. Do they gain your trust if treated nicely ? To a point where you can hand feed them ? Or is it always “fight or flight” having one as a pet.
Temperament varies a lot even within a species, but apparently species like Scolopendra angulata, Ethmostigmus trigonopodus and Scolopendra heros are often quite mellow. They can definitely get used to being handled, but it can also go the other way if you mess up.
Back when I was 7 years old living in Guyana 🇬🇾 I got bit 3x in a row. We were leaving for a wedding and running late so naturally, you’re being rushed. Every time my grandma yelled at me to put my shoes on I screamed in pain and immediately started crying. What we didn’t know was in my shiny black dress shoes, A GIANT RED/BLACK CENTIPEDE was stinging me as she was scolding me to put my feet in the shoes😂These things are known to bring a grown man down
Sounds like you may have been bitten by Scolopendra subspinipes, which has been introduced to the area. Matches your description anyway.
Ooh
Then I pet that centipede ❤❤
😨🥶
A centipede who can take down a bat is impressive. Thank you for another kick ass informational video.
I’m sure it can take down a good sized rodent or squirrel
No
It can kill spiders, rats, and scorpions
🧑🏽🎨 Your illustrations are superb! Thanks for the interesting information and footage of so many huge centipedes!👦🏻
Cheers Ambrose. I’ve noticed your drawings have been improving too.
@@BugsandBiology Wow you illustrated those as well! excellent work!
Extremely informative and INCREDIBLE footage. Your artwork is perfection.
Thanks! I wish I could agree about my artworks. Every time I look at any drawing/painting I’ve done, I start noticing more and more imperfections until the whole thing looks like rubbish.
Excellent video!! Very gentle and light music in the background that isn't overbearing. Very informative and that one centipede crawling on the arm sent shivers down my spine. Loved it!
Thanks! Yeah, those massive centipedes can understandably make you nervous…
Me too my spine is still shivering.
Love this, and I'm glad I'm not the only one who was amazed by that clip of centipedes catching bats when I was younger
Yeah I still remember how it completely took me by surprise. When Attenborough said “it’s after bigger prey” I thought it’d be something like a spider, not a bat.
That moment deserves the saying, “holy sheep shit.” Seeing that take down gave me respect for those leggy dudes. *shiver* painful little nippers aye?!
@@BugsandBiology
I wish they’d film that again with modern technology. It would be awesome to see.
Great video! Beautiful centipedes pictured here, plus the music is nice. Kinda sounds like the soundtrack for a swords n sorcery movie or game 👍
Great video man!! Fantastic info!
Cheers Jack! Hope you don’t plan on getting bitten by any of these haha
Edit: that didn’t age well
Thanks for your amazing arthropod documentaries!
Thanks!
I just discovered this channel and I absolutely love it
"As plain as a TikToker's personality" LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t know why I decided to say that, but I’m glad I did.
@@BugsandBiology it was hilarious!
Same bro, came to the comment section only for that quote. You beat me to it 😂
Best thing I've heard all day. I hope you don't mind if I trade you a subscription for use of said hilariousness
@@dh23dabears Glad you found it funny! I just threw it in as a cheap joke, but guess it was better than I thought.
Gotta love the Tavern Music in the backround. These things you would expect horror music but the Tavern music gives it nice calm contrast to the subject of highly predatory arthropods
It dipped well below -40C here a few days about a month ago. Whenever i get grumpy about the weather I watch a video such as this and happily bundle up.
This was a good video. I would love to see something like this featuring non-Scolopendrium centipedes. We always get house centipedes where I live and would love to know about their varieties elsewhere.
I’ll definitely be covering other types of centipedes. Although scutigeromorphs seem like they’d be difficult to draw.
@@BugsandBiology just draw a very hairy eyebrow (/j)
@@BugsandBiology A smallest centipedes video perhaps?
Centipedes are so underrated and such magnificent creatures. Thank you for making this video!
BRO NO THEY AINT THEY LOOK STRAIGHT OUT OF HELL BRO FUCK CENTIPEDES THEY SHOULD ALL DIE WHY ARE THEY EVEN CREATED BRO THEY ARE THE MOST UGLY THING EVER
hell yeah more sick centipede info! i have a preserved dehaani framed in my room and i always wondered how big it is compared to other giant centipedes. good to know it's in the top 5!
I really enjoyed this video. I’ve been trying to research different types of centipedes, and have not been able to find much out there, so this was exactly the kind of video I have been looking for. Thanks
Thanks!
I intend to do species-by-species features of a variety of centipedes from all over the world
@@BugsandBiology Do you have a pede in mind for the next feature?
@@raptor6635 I’m thinking maybe Scolopendra hardwickei. Or possibly S. heros.
Great video! I love the artwork!
Never has an educational & informative video like this had such fewer view counts than what it deserves! I still find it challenging to distinguish between _galapagoensis_ & true _gigantea_ . They look extremely alike in both dark & red variants. Is there any special feature to look for? I read that we can tell from the ultimate legs which common Asian Pacific species a particular individual is. Can we apply the same to South American giants?
Thanks!
Basically, black Scolopendra gigantea can be distinguished from the dark S. galapagoensis via the following: on S. gigantea the pleural membrane is dark, while it’s pale in S. galapagoensis. And S. galapagoensis have bicolour antennae, while those of S. gigantea are fully black.
Orange S. galapagoensis are more…well…orange than the gold/brown variant of S. gigantea.
S. gigantea also tend to get significantly larger than S. galapagoensis, and have proportionally longer legs (unless you’re talking about the island S. galapagoensis).
@@BugsandBiology
Thanks for your reply! Even among the exotic realm, there're not many people interested in centipedes. Hard to find someone discussing such issues.
Besides, I've just started keeping two sub-adult Darwin's Goliath centipedes ( _S. galapagoensis_ ), dark variants. They're explosive as my other Asian tropical species! But one very interesting difference is that these two South American myriapods are mighty diggers. Even with a deep substrate layer, they still managed to get down into the drainage layers of the tanks.
I'm wondering if this is their natural behavior on the island to get away from danger. Other species of mine just don't get that deep down.
P.S. I've kept two dark Southeast Asian individuals with an unknown identity (dubbed "button black giant" by the pet shop). I'd like to have your opinion on them. I suspect them to be an island variant of _S. dehaani_ (they've got long ultimate legs, dark trunks, brown legs with yellow antennas). Perhaps, I'll take a footage on them to be uploaded on TH-cam.
Another two individuals I've got are the "Sulawesi giant" ( _S. piceoflava_ ) with beautiful tiger-like patterns. They're also explosive like cheetahs. Like you said, Asian-Pacific centipedes are fascinating, just like those South American prehistoric arthropods.
Your channel is so awesome man. I really love this video. Centipedes really are awesome and brutal creatures. Btw where did you find that scolopendra galapagoensis vs scorpion here in your short clip coz I wanna see how the centipede dominates the scorpion there.
The scorpion clip was also off Bilibili. Not much more happens than was already shown.
Glad you like the video!
I know it’s not supposed to be funny, but the way the tarantula just peeled out of there, was really funny 😂
Especially since it’s an Acanthoscurria geniculata, which are known for being absolute eating machines.
Centipedes are the most badass animals currently living on this planet. I heavily respect them.
did Chuck Norris die?
“RESPECT” them??? lol!
My mouth dropped at 11:50.. I'd seen the pictures but in a lot of them I figured people were trying to show off their centipedes, so they'd pull little camera tricks to make them look just a bit larger than they were. That thing at 11:50 is longer than that person's forearm.. Even if that was a child it would be scary, but I have a sneaking suspicion that no child would ever hold something like that. Jeeeeeeesus
It's obviously a child's arm though. You can clearly see that because it's as thin as the centipede. A grown man has a much thicker arm
@@wioi It’s a grown man - in the full video, you can see him on camera too.
Another great video mate,boy I wish we could get those here.lol
You and me both
I am utterly terrified of centipedes but I have to say I really enjoyed this video, plenty of information I did not previously know
Yes, they dethroned scorpions for me.
@@queensapphire7717I am still more afraid of scorpions because where I live it's easier for me to accidentally put my hand on top of a scorpion than a centipede
@@F2a0bi0an5o thank goodness where I am, NY, no scorps, small house centipedes, the biggest entomologic danger here are Brown Recluse spiders.
I was waiting for this :)
Not gonna lie, I procrastinated a lot when making this video. Could’ve had it done two weeks ago.
@@BugsandBiology It's fine
Fascinating and creepy. I also like your deadpan humor throughout the video.
Thanks! Deadpan humour is a slight specialty of mine
Spiders are bad but centipedes activate every single defensive and offensive response in my body, I would gladly settle on another planet just to dodge the opportunity of crossing paths with one of any size beyond that of a fun size Mars bar.
Great video! I wish I could have seen the centipedes of the Carboniferous period, actually all critters for that matter
As far as we know, modern centipedes are bigger than any prehistoric ones. It's a different story for millipedes though.
Having been bitten as a very young kid (I was 8 or 9 years old and it bloody well hurt! More so than any wasp or bee sting!) in the UK by a British centipede, I now give them a lot of respect. i.e. I don't normally pick them up but let them on their way. I had a father who was a marine biologist so hunting, collecting and identifying all sorts of arthropods in British wood piles was always a weekend joy.
But these foot long giants. Frighteningly awesome. Totally spectacular. Stunning hunters.
Have I seen any this size before? Yes! In zoo's. But there was glass between _it_ and _me_ so I was more than happy to get really close to look at it.
Would I ever pick one up? Get stuffed! Been bitten by that little British one was enough. Thank you. As the old saying goes. *_Bitten once. Carless. Bitten twice. Foolish._* ;-))...
EDIT - Forgot to say. Great and informative video. Not like some other videos we see on YT that are all full of errors and misinformation.
EDIT 2 - I just had to subscribe after your last comment. _"... If you didn't, who gives a f***!"_ ;-))...
Just like you, I was pincered by a British centipede when I was 11 or 12 years old. I found it under a piece of wood and thought what a good idea it would be to pick it up....WRONG!!! The pain I felt was so intense that the memory stayed with me all my life and I'm in my 70's, now. 😩
@@esoxlucius6884 Hahaha. I'm 63 and I can still remember the shock of being bitten by that centipede. Even flapping my hand didn't shake the bugger off me. It clung on like a bulldog. 😂😅🤣
They eat bats! Love that you use references. Have seen giant centipedes offered at expos for dirt cheap. Never wanted one, but now I do thanks to binge-watching your videos
Ciao! Ho trovato molto interessante il tuo video e penso sia il più accurato che ho visto fino ad ora. Ho una domanda: possiedo una deheani vietnamita red leg,in quale classificazione è inserita?
Damn that spider right at the start, moved so quick. Never seen a tarantula move like it. Centipedes are so awesome.
You're my bug guy now. My go to for all things bug.
Great video! I have one question though, what's the largest species of centipede that is not in the genus Scolopendra?
Ethmostigmus rubripes might be a strong contender. They can get over 20cm, and are really chunky.
Very interesting species and infromative video, thank you :)
Glad you enjoyed!
I so hyped for this video ;)
Another interesting video 👍 I like your work 🤩 May I please use part of your video for one of my next tutorial ? Thanks
Marc
Yeah all good! Thanks for asking.
@@BugsandBiology Thanks
Superb video 👍 for sharing.Your knowledge and narration is cool stuff.
I got bit between my legs and now my little brother has a tattoo of a centipede, the ladies love it.
3 or more solid belly laughs in a wonderfully thought out video about the most hardcore arthropods in existence?
*clicks subscribe*
I don’t suppose you (or anyone) would know the best humidity and temperature range for both the black and orange scolopendra galapagonensis. I have a Peru white leg which of course needs to be kept dry and not that warm but I brought one of each galapo and I wasn’t sure if they could handle more humid and hot conditions or whether they need to be kept dry as well. I usually have a dry and wet end of the enclosure but I know there is a lot of incorrect information about these on the internet so wanted to check. Always enjoy your videos as there isn’t a great deal of centipede videos :). If you want I’ll make a video of my collection (I have 9 centipedes) and around 20 millipedes if you were interested. Thanks again.
Galapagoensis generally fare better on the drier side too. But having a moist end of the enclosure is a great way to play it safe.
No animal on Earth creep me out more than centipedes but they are still fascinating. I'm glad we don't have any species that grow to be more than a couple of inches long here in Norway where I live.
Fascinating! These are awesome creatures.
Why why WHY do I watch these videos before bed??
What clip is the very first one. I jumped at the size difference between the tarantula and the centipede
Is it possible to get the link of the original video from the the first two seconds where the massive centipede rushes at the tarentula at the speed of light? I'd like to see that. Thank you.
Galapagoensis smaller than gigantea?
Yep. Often by quite a noticeable amount.
I can't believe anyone is handling any of those bastards. Screw that.
Tarantula at the beginning of video: RUN FOR YOUR LIIVES!!
The music was perfect
Such amazing creatures, tho best observed from a distance. I find them incredibly fascinating.
The most painful bite on earth.
I had been stung once during my national service while cleaning up coconut and palm leaves in a hospital during our visit there for community service.Luckily I was rushed to the treatment area and received 2 jabs of painkiller and serum.The pain was terrible and you can't sleep and it was sore and the third day it came with an itch but if you scratch it,pain came along.
A centipede walked in the forest when suddendly stumbled, stumbled, stumbled, stumbled, ...
Hope I see a nice centipede at the next invert shows coming up, I'll definitely be getting one!
They’re amazing pets, you won’t regret getting one.
I have a white leg and i love it. Definitely worth getting
I've kept Scolopendra dehaani, the largest was 34cm not including the terminal legs. The sternites and tergites were black, light grey pleural membranes and bright red legs.
Although the big centipedes were fun, I prefer the little flag tails (Alipes). The neat chirping shound they make is really neat
Damn that’s super impressive - a possible record holder!
And yeah, Alipes are pretty cool. Basically the centipede version of rattlesnakes.
And I totally forgot to subscribe but that's fixed now 😂😅👍
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It’s worth noting that Scolopendra sp. “Garnet” is a recent split from dehaani and seems to be larger (I’ve seen an unusually large one approaching 30cm), making it quite possibly the largest non-South American centipede.
When my brother worked in a produce store as a teen in the ‘80s, he told me spiders would sometimes hide in the bananas as they give off heat when they ripen, I wonder if a centipede ever hitched a ride, he never came across one of those in a banana bunch in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. I need to ask a good friend of mine, who lived in Colombia for 5 years, if he came across that gigantia species.
Hi mate, great stuff as usual. If anyone can help, I would be interested to know what size your average funnel web is on the Central Coast. I moved to Mt Elliot near Gosford recently and I am quite surprised by the size of our funnel webs. I know the guys at Gosford Reptile Park have had some big ones but thought these had come from much further up the coast. The last one we had in the house was a male and large enough to be temporarily misidentified as the house Huntsman we call Frank when we saw it in a darkened room. Having grown up on the Northern Beaches of Sydney, this is shockingly large to me.
It is possible you are encountering different species; some of the larger Hadronyche species dwarf the familiar Atrax robustus.
@@BugsandBiology Cheers! I am reading up on it now.
Centipedes are the creature I fear the most. I saw these creatures in action biting people... even if the person tries to shake it, it won't go anywhere... and the only way this thing dies is by cutting it to pieces.
100 times harder to kill than a roach
Very inaccurate. I’ve been bitten multiple times
I usually twist theis body hardly when they bite me
Most times I’ve been bitten, they let go pretty quick.
I think they avoid “wasting” their venom, unless really pestered, if not using it to take down prey.
Your channel has quickly become my favourite. The only thing I hate is that medieval music 🎶 lol. Seems like it's become abit of a signature though. 🙉 keep up the great content! 👍
Yeah I know my music choice is pretty unorthodox, especially given the content, but I figured I’d best opt for something relaxing given how feared these animals are.
"...are as plain as a TikToker's personality!" 🤣
very nice and meaningful. Wish everyone success and happiness in life
Excelente video!
Love your channel could you possibly recommend a reputable dealer who ships to the U.S. I have seen a few invertebrate sellers and they only carry the smaller species such as Heros and the species in southern Florida. One seller did offer the larger ones but said they couldn't ship the dehannai because of restrictions, I just didn't feel comfortable purchasing before asking your expert advice on the authenticity of the possible sellers you may know, and any other tips you might be kind enough to offer. Thank you for any info and again your channel is awsome!!
Thanks!
Unfortunately, being in Australia, I have basically zero knowledge of overseas breeders/sellers.
Might be worth poking around on Facebook or something.
In guadeloupe we found some reaching over 35 cm deep in the forests....they are the most feared and respected anumals down there.
As a tree trimmer in Hawaii I encountered large centipedes I had to deal with them as long as you don't bite me I will never intentionally kill one I felt it was bad luck to do so but I had no idea they got as big as these
I love your channel, i bought my first centipede last week, it is a Scolopendra Cingulata, which was sold to me by my favorite tarantula dealer.
Nice! Great beginner species.
Ill see you at pre-season cross country 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Looking forward to it!
What was that blue species in your initial introduction 🤔
Which one? The one attacking the tarantula or the one eating a mouse? The former is Scolopendra galapagoensis, and the latter is Scolopendra gigantea.
Has anyone been bitten by the Goliath Centepede and if so how painful was it ?
It’s worth noting that the top three on this list are all matriphagous. They’re big even in their second instar (bigger than the subadults of most other Scolopendra).
I’ve seen a 35+cm “white legs” in person (mascot of a now-closed invert store near me). Thing was so massive-almost 5cm across-that it didn’t look real, and visitors often had to be reassured that yes, it was an actual live centipede and yes, it was that huge. (There was a time when the shop owner fed the beast with a recently deceased tarantula while I and a few other visitors watched, that was something to see).
Matriphagy seems to be a trait unique to the South American giants. In addition to those three, Scolopendra angulata and (I believe) S. viridicornis are matriphagous as well.
And yeah, I’ve heard they’re extremely fast growers, especially in early life. Seem to put on an insane amount of size with each molt.
Can only imagine what it’d be like to see a 35cm+ centipede in the flesh. Here in Australia, anything over 15cm is big, and 18-20cm centipedes look huge to me.
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You really can’t understand how fucking massive a 35cm centipede is until you see one.
The largest native centipedes here in Korea are S. mutilans which still gets to around 10-12cm.
Красота то какая!))
I will have to look more at our Hawaiian variety. We have electric blue to brown ones. Though only about 6 inches in size
They’d be Scolopendra subspinipes. Introduced to Hawaii and very common there.
The brighter the color the bigger the fear, is a good principle to follow.
@@BugsandBiology who introduced these centipedes to Hawaii?
They were probably introduced accidentally as stowaways.
The two scariest and my favorite classes of arthropods are undoubtedly arachnids and chiplopods
Do you think galapagoensis is thicker than white leg? From what I've seen it seems like galapagoensis is much thicker
In proportion to length, definitely.
U should come in Guadeloupe (France) near US, the giganteas here don't look like other centipede . I think u should study them, and they're so smart, but can be so wild too, I love them
What do they look like? They may not even be gigantea.
@@BugsandBiology idk if u received my answers, cuz I don't see them, u can see what they look like on my pages tchd1999 or Tchadman42o
Had that issue before with not being able to see comments. Super annoying.
Just took a look at your page. The centipedes are Scolopendra subspinipes.
@@BugsandBiology ohh okay
i had a couple dehanni’s a few years ago and for the brief time i was in the keeping hobby i quickly found out how much misinformation and just lack of info on centipedes there is. Nice to see some accurate stuff.
But why is the white leg undescribed? what’s stopping the formal describing of it? it’s been around for quite a while now. Also those small eucalyptus centipedes u found in your other vids, if they’re undescribed then why not collect some specimens and get em named? i’m assuming there’s more to it than i understand.
“kaneki, i want to put this in your ear, is that okay?”
I've asked in other centipede videos. In the central highlands of Vietnam, I ran into centipedes the had a unique defense. When threatened (rolled on in your sleep) each segment had two glands the sprayed acid. The locals warned me that this burned, which I never tested. But I did test that they squirted a tiny stream, at the threat, as far as a foot away.
What were these, that were seemingly unique? And do other centipedes have this defense?
Thx.
Those sound a lot more like millipedes than centipedes.
@@BugsandBiology Exactly what the other "bug" site's opinion was.
Very interesting
I live i the Kingom of Tonga, northern island group Vava'u
We have diffrent cenipedes here, colour ranges from sometimes blueish to reddish into real dark and black, the bigg ones can get up to 20 cm, that wou,d be big but not rare, i have seen some with maybe up to 25 cm, maybe 3 in 25 years!
The big ones bite is ver very painfull, swells up a lot and normalyget infected after about 24 to 48 hours.
We uss hot water right after the bite to ,eep the swelling down, it works!
I have been bitten many many times by mostly smaller ones below 20 cm, still hurts still swells up and still get infected!
Thank man
Gunter
I wish the music wasn't playing. Im very interested in what you're saying but the background noise is distracting.
It sometimes comes out louder in the final product than during editing
The opening made me jump 😅
Now imagine how scary it must’ve been for the tarantula…
13:00 that’s the dream right there I’d love to have my own pet centipede that I could lovingly pet
I have handled spiders. I have handled snakes. I will NEVER handle a centipede.
I don’t either, now that I’m allergic.
Though smaller, more docile species are still fine.
All the places where them big centipedes live are places where I ain't never going.
0:17 wow, just something I am glad not to worry about being inside my boot or under my pillow. I don’t think I would ever get over it, I would have PTSD, and the S is for Scolopendra. Looks like the “Arnold Schwarzenegger” version of the species with those forcipules.
14:02 why does this one look like its had Sellotape stuck on its back before?
That’s just the lighting combined with the animal’s texture.
Can I get a link to that opening video? I wanna make a meme out of it
Of the centipede attacking the A. geniculata?
Here:
m.bilibili.com/video/BV1X64y167CX?spm_id_from=trigger_reload
@@BugsandBiology tyyy
When i was a kid, living in Oklahoma (USA), we came across a massive centipede that was easily over a foot in length (approx 30 cm). I would say this individual was closer to two feet, or 60 cm in length. I remember that it was a massive thing because even my parents freaked out about it (it was in our home somehow) and my dad wouldn't go near the thing. It was vacuumed up and spent the rest of its days in the vacuum container. I think my dad took a picture of it, but if i have seen it, it's been years. I wish i could identify this centipede, as it seems to be one hell of an outlier.
The biggest centipede found in Oklahoma is Scolopendra heros. They only get about 6-8 inches counting body length alone. (not measuring antennae/terminals) if you measure the entire centipede then it ends up being about 8-10" at most I believe.
2ft - no chance
@@mikejessmax yeah...
@@mikejessmax if you are small all things seem bigger, but I would not dismiss all claims of Giant animals since having an native backrground thought me not all things/animals are as they seem
ive seen them 40cm long in new zealand and the old guy that run the old train station where we found them said he used to see them as long as his arm and that would make them 50 to 60 cm long.
What people don't know is centipedes are FAST. They can also double back along their own body length very quickly.
They are all quite nice IMO.
Yeah, right!
I keep most of these absolutely gorgeous animals
Jealous! Wish I could keep them in Australia
Just make sure they don’t breed and don’t escape lol!!
I keep coming back to this video. I want a gigantea black morph sooo bad I’m thinking about flying to Venezuela catching one and finding a way to ship it to the US
#5 - It's also found throughout the Caribbean due to the importing and exporting of goods
I wouldn’t be surprised. I’ve seen a couple wild observations of Scolopendra dehaani in the US which were presumably escaped pets.
@@BugsandBiology Do they island-hop on driftwood like some small animals do?
Definitely likely. I suspect that may have been how Scolopendra galapagoensis made it to the Galapagos.
I just few Caribbean centipedes in the island of Dominica, not DR. 12 inches, Very red, and each of them came toward me or my headlamp.
I saw up close in GA. USA a centipede that was bright green, as thick as my thumb and about 11 inches long. Any body know what kind it was.
What level boss battle is this?
What is the most docile species of giant centipede ? If there is such a thing. Do they gain your trust if treated nicely ? To a point where you can hand feed them ? Or is it always “fight or flight” having one as a pet.
Temperament varies a lot even within a species, but apparently species like Scolopendra angulata, Ethmostigmus trigonopodus and Scolopendra heros are often quite mellow.
They can definitely get used to being handled, but it can also go the other way if you mess up.