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Hey,
I was walking around behind my house just a few mins ago and I came to this place where a spring flows out of the ground around this time of year and I was looking at it closely thinking maybe an arrow head or something cool might have been uncovered when I saw something I would have never guessed in a million years.
I saw a little greyish/white thing crawling around near the source of the spring, at first glance I thought it was one of those aquatic pill bugs so I thought it was cool that it had been living underground indeffinately, when I realized it was much longer and more segmented and had a wide flat head.
it was just walking around underwater, so I quickly put a leaf over it so it would feel safe and hopefully not go back in the hole, and I bolted for the nearest jar/bottle.
I nearly lost it when I was tying to coax it into the small bottle I found, it wen t under a piece of wood, I thought it was gone, and about 4 mins later I realized I had pulled it out of the water on the wood (that I had searched) it had just stayed hunkered down on it the whole time.
I'm trying to find a clear container to put it in and hopefully keep it alive long enough for my wife to get home with the camera.
it's about an inch long, has 1 leg per side of each segment, and two feelers on the front, and maybe the back (the little jar I have it in at the moment is kind of murky besides being green)
Edit: Ok, I now have it in the lid part of a CD-R spool case, so it will be great for pictures.
it's head is sort of long, oval shaped. the feelers have a segment about the middle of them.
he has one feeler on the back, and one missing or damaged leg(this probably happened during the piece of wood incident as I doubt there are predators underground)
so in a perfect world it looks like it would have 12 legs for the 6 segments and the back most segment would have two long feelers.
Also, I can see what may be pincers(or whatever you call them) or perhaps more likely flippers for digging/feeding under the head, I've seen them move down a little but not out enough to observe them.
so am I getting all worked up for nothing or could this be a new species of some kind? I can't find it on google, I don't even really know what to search for.
I just realized I spelled centipede wrong, but I can't change the title, so you can see I don't know much about centipedes much less whether or not it's normal for them to live in underground springs
I was walking around behind my house just a few mins ago and I came to this place where a spring flows out of the ground around this time of year and I was looking at it closely thinking maybe an arrow head or something cool might have been uncovered when I saw something I would have never guessed in a million years.
I saw a little greyish/white thing crawling around near the source of the spring, at first glance I thought it was one of those aquatic pill bugs so I thought it was cool that it had been living underground indeffinately, when I realized it was much longer and more segmented and had a wide flat head.
it was just walking around underwater, so I quickly put a leaf over it so it would feel safe and hopefully not go back in the hole, and I bolted for the nearest jar/bottle.
I nearly lost it when I was tying to coax it into the small bottle I found, it wen t under a piece of wood, I thought it was gone, and about 4 mins later I realized I had pulled it out of the water on the wood (that I had searched) it had just stayed hunkered down on it the whole time.
I'm trying to find a clear container to put it in and hopefully keep it alive long enough for my wife to get home with the camera.
it's about an inch long, has 1 leg per side of each segment, and two feelers on the front, and maybe the back (the little jar I have it in at the moment is kind of murky besides being green)
Edit: Ok, I now have it in the lid part of a CD-R spool case, so it will be great for pictures.
it's head is sort of long, oval shaped. the feelers have a segment about the middle of them.
he has one feeler on the back, and one missing or damaged leg(this probably happened during the piece of wood incident as I doubt there are predators underground)
so in a perfect world it looks like it would have 12 legs for the 6 segments and the back most segment would have two long feelers.
Also, I can see what may be pincers(or whatever you call them) or perhaps more likely flippers for digging/feeding under the head, I've seen them move down a little but not out enough to observe them.
so am I getting all worked up for nothing or could this be a new species of some kind? I can't find it on google, I don't even really know what to search for.
I just realized I spelled centipede wrong, but I can't change the title, so you can see I don't know much about centipedes much less whether or not it's normal for them to live in underground springs
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