Between May 1990 and June 2009, giant red-headed
centipedes were collected from various counties in central and northern Arkansas.
In his biography, Ted Morgan simplistically links the
centipede image in Junky directly to Burroughs's "hatred of insects, going back to the invasion of scorpions and
centipedes in East Texas" in 1947 (1988, 208).
There are
centipede species that spend their time beneath the soil, but they tend to be even thinner and much paler than Lithobius.
The artist, acknowledging that the man's water test is as vain and elusive as his reflected image, pulls out of the water and into the foreground the
centipedes, crude indicators of harm amplified and exposed to the naked eye.
In crustaceans and
centipedes, however, both proteins encoded by the genes can be found even in segments that have legs.
Centipedes also have prominent antennae on their heads and run swiftly if disturbed - this ability to run fast is useful because they are predators and may help to control certain small pests.
Cecil
Centipede stretches 200 feet fully extended, and makers PMS International, of Basildon, have contacted the Guinness Book of Records for inclusion.
The adventure game takes you off to assist Wally in stopping the hordes of
centipedes, fleas, spiders, scorpions and an army of new and deadly bugs, from taking over Weedom.
Stack firewood and lumber away from the house to eliminate harborage for rodents, spiders and
centipedes.
Along the way we learn where
centipedes live, and we are introduced to the other inhabitants of their environment, mostly other arthropods.
They include allowing grass to grow to provide shelter for insects through the colder months which, in turn, will feed birds, leaving rotting wood to become a home to beetles, fungi, and
centipedes, or piling leaves in one corner of your garden so creatures can take them to line nests or burrows.
The classic version of
Centipede challenges gamers to defend their villages against an onslaught of
centipedes, spiders, army ants and more.
