Millipede Madness

[SadieKate]

They have their own website!

http://www.camelspiders.net/

And their top speed is only 10 mph...

OK, there's training motivation.

[DDH]

OMG, I knew I should not have come here. I don't mind spiders so much, but all the other creepy crawlies freak me out. I ecspecially cannot stand june bugs and crickets and things that jump at you are fly into your head. I know they don't bite, but the feel of them on my skin or in my hair just gives me the hebee jebees. My skin is now crawling.

[DirtDiva]

It's a giant weta. Luckily for you they're quite rare. Here's one to scale...

[Jen-Jen]

Or how about the time I woke up in a tent, in Maryland, literally blanketed by grandddaddy longlegs?

Karen

Did you know that granddaddy longlegs are VERY poisonous! I alway pick their little butts up and put them back out side!!!! Then my dad was watching a animal program and he learn this fact. However, my dad is a trickster and sometimes he lies to get you going, but I believe him on this. The reason no one dies from them and thankful for it is because their fangs are so hooked and too short that they can't straighten them enough to sink them into our flesh. Okay all one one....EEEEWWWWWW!

By the way....I no long pick up daddy-long-legs anymore.

[Melalvai]

My skin is now crawling.

That sensation is called "formication". I am not kidding.
I use that word in casual conversation ever chance I get.

[snapdragen]

It's a giant weta. Luckily for you they're quite rare. Here's one to scale...

Oh My God

Are you f'n kidding me?




I like this: "The Māori name of the Giant Weta is 'wētā punga' (lumpy or jointed weta), a name that is sometimes rendered in English-language sources as 'god of ugly things'"

[Trekhawk]

Good God is right that thing is just freaky and creepy. Glad to hear you don't
have them wandering around in huge numbers.

I have finally identified the Millipedes we have visiting and you guessed it they are not native to Australia.
http://www.csiro.au/resources/BlackP...illipedes.html

Hey Z if you are still viewing this thread I guess that last pic didn't help with the weird psych experiment thing.

SK - I would take some snaps but well I have no idea where the camera stuff is and secondly I suck at downloading the stuff onto the computer from the camera. Sad I know but true.


Funnily enough I find the pics in this thread are helping me to feel less revolted by the Millipedes we have.

[jobob]

Glad to hear that!

[DDH]

That sensation is called "formication". I am not kidding.
I use that word in casual conversation ever chance I get.

So I can say I am Formicating? LOL

How funny, I think I will use it now to and see if anyone I know will have a clue!!! LOL

[bikerz]

Formicate: where etymology and entomology meet.

Trekhawk, I was suckered back in by seeing the Snap and DirtDiva had posted, and I thought - oh - maybe something I can handle. But, no. (Thanks, pals!) But I am learning - I did not follow your link about your exotic millipedes.

That weta-thing is way too big. You know, it doesn't look all that different from a giant prawn-type thing that showed up on my dinner plate at a restaurant in southern India one night , completely reinforcing my assertion that crustaceans are just giant insects of the sea.

[OakLeaf]

crustaceans are just giant insects of the sea.

Oh now you've got that jingle in my head. "What's the best lobster? Cricket of the Sea!"

[rocknrollgirl]

When I used to climb a lot, those giant millipedes were all over the rock. You would be 100 feet up off the deck going to make a sketchy move and wriggle, wriggle, one would crawl out of the rocks right in your face. Not much you could do about it. Focus past the bugs!

One time we saw a rather large snake climbing vertically right up the face about 20 feet off the ground. Now that would have given me a heart attack.

[mimitabby]

so you don't want to rub these millipeds into your eyes, as they are very irritating.. Such useful information!

[Trekhawk]

so you don't want to rub these millipeds into your eyes, as they are very irritating.. Such useful information!

LOL - yep lots of great tips. Don't rub them in your eyes, don't eat them. Ok very useful if I was tempted to put them anywhere near my face but all I want to know is how to make the buggers go away.

Z - I will never look at seafood the same way.

[DirtDiva]

Trekhawk, I was suckered back in by seeing the Snap and DirtDiva had posted, and I thought - oh - maybe something I can handle.

Bwahahaha.