Centipede
noun
A small creature with a long, thin body and many legs.
Be careful when you pick up that rock, it might have centipedes under it.
Often appears as...
- house centipede
- venomous centipede
noun
A small creature with a long, thin body and many legs.
Be careful when you pick up that rock, it might have centipedes under it.
Often appears as...
- house centipede
- venomous centipede
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Pro Tip 1/3Creature Count
Centipedes do not always have 100 legs despite the 'centi-' prefix; the number varies.
Although it's called a centipede, it might have more or less than 100 legs.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Insects
Centipedes are often mistaken for insects but are actually myriapods, a different type of arthropod.
Did you know? Centipedes are myriapods, not insects.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural Habitat
Centipedes prefer moist, dark environments like under rocks, logs, or in soil.
I found centipedes thriving in the damp soil of the garden.
Pro Tip 1/3Creature Count
Centipedes do not always have 100 legs despite the 'centi-' prefix; the number varies.
Although it's called a centipede, it might have more or less than 100 legs.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Insects
Centipedes are often mistaken for insects but are actually myriapods, a different type of arthropod.
Did you know? Centipedes are myriapods, not insects.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural Habitat
Centipedes prefer moist, dark environments like under rocks, logs, or in soil.
I found centipedes thriving in the damp soil of the garden.
Pro Tip 1/3Creature Count
Centipedes do not always have 100 legs despite the 'centi-' prefix; the number varies.
Although it's called a centipede, it might have more or less than 100 legs.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Insects
Centipedes are often mistaken for insects but are actually myriapods, a different type of arthropod.
Did you know? Centipedes are myriapods, not insects.
Pro Tip 3/3Natural Habitat
Centipedes prefer moist, dark environments like under rocks, logs, or in soil.
I found centipedes thriving in the damp soil of the garden.
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Alone Across the Outback...
and she went back in with the keys, opened up all the cages and let all the animals loose, opened up all the doors and one little puppy had been brought in that day, that was Diggity. I have goose bumps telling the story. And, so Diggity became like her companion. And Diggity saved her life so many times during the trip, it was unbelievable. If... if a snake or centipede
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Robert Full: Engineering...
you think you don't have in your kitchen. This is an eight-legged scorpion, six-legged ant, forty-four-legged centipede. Now, I said all these animals are sort of working like pogo sticks -- they're bouncing along as they move. And you can see that
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Licking bees and pulping...
these insects keep spiders, mites, and centipedes, in check. Wasps consume crop-eating insects, making them particularly helpful for farms and gardens. They even pollinate fruits and vegetables, and help winemakers by biting into their grapes
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Safari Live - Day 146 PIPE...
insect front in this part of the world because a lot of these insects that we have here or some are active so are the dung beetles like some of a lot of the spiders and the centipedes millipedes we don't really see them in winter so it's
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If You're Scared of...
research collection we show arachnids which include spiders millipedes centipedes crustaceans and then insects we have lots of insects from all parts of the world these guys have a chemical defense they can spray cyanide not
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Eating Myself PIPE National...
its old skin just isn't good enough it's after a baby green iguana the iguana is fast twitchy highly mobile and impulsive the centipede is slower persistent hungry and strategic the centipede advances on
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South American Centipede...
its old skin just isn't good enough it's after a baby green iguana the iguana is fast twitchy highly mobile and impulsive the centipede is slower persistent hungry and strategic the centipede advances on
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Eating Myself: Giant...
after a baby green iguana the iguana is fast twitchy highly mobile and impulsive the centipede is slower persistent hungry and strategic the centipede advances on
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Close Encounter with a...
well this is a real first for me I've never had a scholar Pender centipede on my hand before it's a little bit nerve-racking but I guess like all
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Giant Centipede PIPE...
the centipede advances on the iguana the iguana retreats the iguana scoots the centipede crawls scoot crawl scoot crawl
Video examples
Alone Across the Outback...
and she went back in with the keys, opened up all the cages and let all the animals loose, opened up all the doors and one little puppy had been brought in that day, that was Diggity. I have goose bumps telling the story. And, so Diggity became like her companion. And Diggity saved her life so many times during the trip, it was unbelievable. If... if a snake or centipede
Video examples
Robert Full: Engineering...
you think you don't have in your kitchen. This is an eight-legged scorpion, six-legged ant, forty-four-legged centipede. Now, I said all these animals are sort of working like pogo sticks -- they're bouncing along as they move. And you can see that
Video examples
Licking bees and pulping...
these insects keep spiders, mites, and centipedes, in check. Wasps consume crop-eating insects, making them particularly helpful for farms and gardens. They even pollinate fruits and vegetables, and help winemakers by biting into their grapes
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 146 PIPE...
insect front in this part of the world because a lot of these insects that we have here or some are active so are the dung beetles like some of a lot of the spiders and the centipedes millipedes we don't really see them in winter so it's
Video examples
If You're Scared of...
research collection we show arachnids which include spiders millipedes centipedes crustaceans and then insects we have lots of insects from all parts of the world these guys have a chemical defense they can spray cyanide not
Video examples
Eating Myself PIPE National...
its old skin just isn't good enough it's after a baby green iguana the iguana is fast twitchy highly mobile and impulsive the centipede is slower persistent hungry and strategic the centipede advances on
Video examples
South American Centipede...
its old skin just isn't good enough it's after a baby green iguana the iguana is fast twitchy highly mobile and impulsive the centipede is slower persistent hungry and strategic the centipede advances on
Video examples
Eating Myself: Giant...
after a baby green iguana the iguana is fast twitchy highly mobile and impulsive the centipede is slower persistent hungry and strategic the centipede advances on
Video examples
Close Encounter with a...
well this is a real first for me I've never had a scholar Pender centipede on my hand before it's a little bit nerve-racking but I guess like all
Video examples
Giant Centipede PIPE...
the centipede advances on the iguana the iguana retreats the iguana scoots the centipede crawls scoot crawl scoot crawl
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David Levering Lewis
American Historian
I have always been averse to theorizing about the art or craft of biography. Like Disraeli's biographer, Lord Blake, who offers the cautionary analogy of the biographical centipede unsure of her next step because of too much cerebration, I have made it my practice to let the facts find the theory.
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Steve Backshall
The flesh-eating cockroaches and venomous centipedes in the Gomantong cave in Borneo were pretty unsavoury. They turn the floor of the cave, which is itself the world's largest pile of bird and bat poo, into a seething mass of invertebrate horror!
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Mukesh Ambani
Indian Businessman
The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.
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Rose Leslie
Scottish Actress
It's kind of ridiculous, but I hate creepy crawlers. Like centipedes. It's just the fact that they have so many legs! I am not great with spiders either. That absolutely creeps me out.
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Katherine Dunn
American Novelist
The metaphor of the subterranean is at work in a lot of Northwest writers and artists. Zooming in closer and closer and closer, then below, to the worms and the centipede.
Quote examples
David Levering Lewis
American Historian
I have always been averse to theorizing about the art or craft of biography. Like Disraeli's biographer, Lord Blake, who offers the cautionary analogy of the biographical centipede unsure of her next step because of too much cerebration, I have made it my practice to let the facts find the theory.
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Steve Backshall
The flesh-eating cockroaches and venomous centipedes in the Gomantong cave in Borneo were pretty unsavoury. They turn the floor of the cave, which is itself the world's largest pile of bird and bat poo, into a seething mass of invertebrate horror!
Quote examples
Mukesh Ambani
Indian Businessman
The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.
Quote examples
Rose Leslie
Scottish Actress
It's kind of ridiculous, but I hate creepy crawlers. Like centipedes. It's just the fact that they have so many legs! I am not great with spiders either. That absolutely creeps me out.
Quote examples
Katherine Dunn
American Novelist
The metaphor of the subterranean is at work in a lot of Northwest writers and artists. Zooming in closer and closer and closer, then below, to the worms and the centipede.
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