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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Myriapods (Myriapoda) » Centipedes (Chilopoda) » Soil Centipedes (Geophilomorpha)
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Centipede
Copyright © 2020 Mardon Erbland

Centipede
N47° 37' 49.84" W52° 41' 13.13" Logy Bay, Northeast Avalon, Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
June 8, 2020
Size: 10 mm nose to body rear
I found this in a small bit of soil that I dug from our yard today. This centipede was flailing its head around most of the time that I was trying to photograph it.

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Contributed by Mardon Erbland on 8 June, 2020 - 3:31pm
Last updated 21 August, 2020 - 8:57am

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They do not have eyes, so was probably just trying to figure out its environment with its antennae.
… Jeff Brown, 21 August, 2020 - 8:57am login or register to post comments

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