

![GIANT REDHEADED CENTIPEDEScolopendra heros©TL McCormick
The Giant Redheaded Centipede is a species of centipede found in North America. It has an average length of 6.5 inches (170 mm), but can reach up to 8 in (200 mm). Its trunk bears 21 or 23 pairs of legs. It is aposematically [brightly] colored, to warn off potential predators, and a number of color variants are known in the species.
S. heros is found in northern Mexico and the southern United States, from New Mexico and Arizona in the west, to Arkansas and Missouri in the east. It remains underground on warm days, emerging in cloudy weather. Source
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Scolopendra heros, Giant Redheaded Centipede
North America](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2or734Ia91rtfxp1o1_500.jpg)
GIANT REDHEADED CENTIPEDE
Scolopendra heros
©TL McCormick
The Giant Redheaded Centipede is a species of centipede found in North America. It has an average length of 6.5 inches (170 mm), but can reach up to 8 in (200 mm). Its trunk bears 21 or 23 pairs of legs. It is aposematically [brightly] colored, to warn off potential predators, and a number of color variants are known in the species.
S. heros is found in northern Mexico and the southern United States, from New Mexico and Arizona in the west, to Arkansas and Missouri in the east. It remains underground on warm days, emerging in cloudy weather. Source
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Scolopendra heros, Giant Redheaded Centipede
North America
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“The word centipede roughly translates to 100 legs, but no one in the history of biology has ever seen a centipede with...
This thing makes spiders look like teddy bears.
Whoa, it has neat colours. :0
It’s not often that I vividly despise a species of animal but these and spiders can just get the fuck out of my life.