Bat eating Pede!

[Frogster]

Anybody in the UK will probably know this already but a new TV program 'Life in the Undergrowth' starts tonight - all about the bugs we love so much :}

This is a picture from the show showing a bat eating centipede

Sorry if you don't live in the UK ;P

 

[mackids]

thats shot is amazing! I wish I did live in the UK to get a show like that!

 

[Anthony]

An amazing shot, how large is the pede ?

 

[PERIKIN]

how lucky are you to can see that program,may be someday it be translate and we have it on spanish tv.

 

[Steven]

yup,... i've watched it yesterday evening !!!

see this topic:
http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?p=558904

but i'm a bit confused with the picture shown above !
the footage of the scolopendrid eating bats was with nightvision,...
so we couldn't see the colors on the scolopendrid.

the picture above seems to be a viridicornis or galapogoensis
(judging on the colors) while the article describes sc.gigantea :? :? :?

the thing that got me confused are the antennae on the scolopendrid shown above !,... anyone who has noticed this also ?

 

[Crotalus]

Steven, perhaps there are more species then gigantea that eat bats

/Lelle

 

[danread]

the picture above seems to be a viridicornis or galapogoensis
(judging on the colors) while the article describes sc.gigantea :? :? :?

the thing that got me confused are the antennae on the scolopendrid shown above !,... anyone who has noticed this also ?

I thought this as well Steven, my first impressions were viridicornis, but it's hard to tell without detailed body shots.

 

[Randolph XX()]

Steven, perhaps there are more species then gigantea that eat bats

/Lelle

I'd second that
Reminds me this Crab eating pede

photo by黑米

 

[Steven]

i'm quite sure Sc.gigantea isn't the only large scolopendrid who can feed on bats,..
i'm just confused on what the spec. the pede shown on the picture above is.

 

[Crunchie]

One of my millipedes was on that show!