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Unidentified Centipede
Copyright © 2007 Matt Goff

Unidentified Centipede
Sitka County, Alaska, USA
June 2, 2007
I found this centipede crawling around in the dirt after I lifted up a piece of plastic that had been covering garden soil over the winter.

Additional photos can be seen at
http://www.sitkanature.org/1000species/?p=86
Contributed by Matt Goff on 8 June, 2007 - 1:50am
Last updated 30 January, 2009 - 3:05pm

Moved
Moved from Centipedes.
… Eric R. Eaton, 30 January, 2009 - 3:05pm

Hey Matt how are you? Only a
Hey Matt how are you? Only about 6 weeks now and I'll be back in Alaska myself, first at Kodiak, Seward, Anchorage,then Juneau, Ketchikan, Metlakatla, and POW Island. The centipede is a representative of the order Geophilmorpha, but I don't know any more than that; I've never learned these type of centipedes. Rowland Shelley, North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences.
… Rowland Shelley, 8 June, 2007 - 9:55pm

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