S.S.D chinese

Amazing, beautiful, stunning! Asian Scolopendridae has to be the best predators when it comes to inverts. We need more keepers, it's a shame people are scared to keep those (because I know that majority of 'you' folks reading this are scared) lol

I love to see my S.subspinipes munching the biggest air hole I've drilled or reaching the top trying to escape but illumination: a fatty B.dubia and she calm down.
I have also one of her sons (she arrived gravid) living alone in my garden

@Chris LXXIX That's great, it might be nerve racking to most to have such an incredible predator roaming around freely in the garden. What do you have the mother in for an enclosure?

@Scolopendra1989 Nah, not that my garden is very huge and full of places where hide comfy (like the area full of soil I use for my flowers and veggies).

What 'shocked' me was the fact that last time I saw the bugger was a pedeling... 6 months after, more or less, turned into a decent sized pede that was able to survive all of those time alone, molting, eating. Near me: because I've spotted him/her just for pure luck one night coming out from my door and reaching the garden lol. I was out for take back one of my cats.

Clearly... the pedelings I've personally packed and shipped weren't 24. Now I know lol

@Scolopendra1989 His/her mother is housed in a plastic enclosure. Aside for jokes, no escapes. Just that, she was gravid (a norm with WC) and I wasn't aware, so when she disappeared for months my guess was pre-molt or whatever (pet hole attitude when the belly is full etc).

One night, again for pure luck (what if I wasn't present at home?) I've spotted something moving, lol... pedelings all the place, jumping out from the air holes (little for an adult, nothing for a pedeling). While I've captured the pedelings and shipped those to another keeper/breeder/seller here in Italy, indeed someone managed to disappear