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Hello (forgive the crudeness of this post)
My big S. subspinipes has been attempting to crap something out all morning and seems to be having a hard time of it. Right on the end, underneath the division between the terminal legs, where I assume a centipede's butt is, he keeps trying to pump something out that won't come out. It's a cream-coloured mass about the size of an adult cricket, I mean it really looks like the centipede is just taking a poop. BUT, the "mass" won't come out, it just keeps "prairie-dogging." And, this mass has two little spikes sticking out of it, one on each side, small like the spikes on a cricket's butt. It looks like it COULD be some kind internal organ, or sexual organ? This is kinda freaking me out, the centipede is really straining here, I'm kinda worried. I'm trying to take pics but my camera is horrible close-up. Do pedes get fecal impactions or something similar? Is there some kind of organ located there that could be, like, expelling itself? Is it normal for a pede to take all day to poop? Would appreciate any help here, thank you.
edit - The blobby organ/mass appears to have a couple strands of silk on it. ???
My big S. subspinipes has been attempting to crap something out all morning and seems to be having a hard time of it. Right on the end, underneath the division between the terminal legs, where I assume a centipede's butt is, he keeps trying to pump something out that won't come out. It's a cream-coloured mass about the size of an adult cricket, I mean it really looks like the centipede is just taking a poop. BUT, the "mass" won't come out, it just keeps "prairie-dogging." And, this mass has two little spikes sticking out of it, one on each side, small like the spikes on a cricket's butt. It looks like it COULD be some kind internal organ, or sexual organ? This is kinda freaking me out, the centipede is really straining here, I'm kinda worried. I'm trying to take pics but my camera is horrible close-up. Do pedes get fecal impactions or something similar? Is there some kind of organ located there that could be, like, expelling itself? Is it normal for a pede to take all day to poop? Would appreciate any help here, thank you.
edit - The blobby organ/mass appears to have a couple strands of silk on it. ???
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