I turned over a log in the woods last week and was pleased to see nearly two dozen pairs of bright red legs disappear beneath the leaves: a centipede. I immediately thought of three questions I have ...

Small insects, spiders, and other invertebrates are food for centipedes. ©4,000 × 2,500 pixels, file size: 10.36 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg – Original / License Did you know that there are over 3,000 ...

It’s happened to most of us. You lift up a rock in your garden or an old carpet in your basement and…YIKES! Centipede. A tiny monster with dozens of legs comes scurrying at you. And as if their ...

One of the marvels of the natural world is that animals with more legs than you can count are able to walk — and to run — with seeming ease. How do they do it? Centipedes are flat, elongate animals ...

If spiders make you squeamish, centipedes take the ick factor to another level. Despite their name, centipedes don’t have 100 legs—but they might have upwards of 300 or as few as a couple of dozen.

How it got into our house I will never know. In my experience, there is just one animal that appears quite unpredictable in its behavior: the Giant Desert Centipede. A few nights ago I was confronted ...