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Giant Redheaded Centipede - Scolopendra heros

Giant Redheaded Centipede - Scolopendra heros
Eastern, Oklahoma, USA
September 12, 2003
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Which centipede is it that wi
Which centipede is it that will attach to a host? Story I got from a friend in New Mexico is this thing attached itself to his leg, and could not be removed until he covered it in some salve/vaseline, and it let go.....creepazoidal.......

Scolopendra heros
Head of Scolopendra heros Girard, 1853.

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