Scolopendra On "Bug Attack"

[Melmoth]

I watched a programme on Nat Geog. last night called "Bug Attack".An entomologist called De Vries was travelling the world in search of the biggest and grossest inverts.In Venezuela he caught a huge centipede,which he just identified as a scolopendra.It's body was blackish and the legs striped.He held it with two sets of long tweezers.Looked a good eleven or so inches.Looked quite viridicornis like.But as we know colouration is a poor method of identification with pedes.Just wondered if anybody else saw it?

 

[Steven]

Yep,.. guess i saw that episode,...
the big pede hold the "tweezer" together wasn't it ?
looked indeed like a viridicornis to me too
there was a second specie which ate a roach.

was it that episode where he let himself be stung by a scorp too ?

 

[Melmoth]

Steven,
Yes that's the episode.He allowed scorp sting and bites by Harvester ants. That pede was certainly one strong chilopod,holding the tweezers together with it's legs.
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