Killa-X wrote ...

Fun, because the common house centipede here, doesn't look like that. They are brown-black in color, and the legs are short, even when they have ~15 legs. Never seen one the color your picture shows, or one with legs that long. Maybe they just dont live as long here, because when i find them, they are commonly dead in the middle of the floor.

Oh well, Different states have their own bugs. Enjoy your bug! Going to just trash it or care for it for fun, or torcher it...?

magnet18 wrote ...


I've seen both types, long legged ones in Canada, and short legged ones in HK.
not to mention the huge foot long centipedes in my yard, now those are scary.

I believe you are confusing the centipede with the millipede.

magnet18 wrote ...

I believe you are confusing the centipede with the millipede.

Killa-X wrote ...


Probably, Just no one here says millipede, people just say "Hey look its a centipede" Guess its just a common west michigan thing. Oh well =)

Mads Barnkob wrote ...

Wonderful little fellow, I recently started putting my macro shots of animals online :)

Proud Mary wrote ...


I'm just working on the design of a wildlife garden, with native British wildflowers, and overlapping habitat areas, a small shallow pond with an adjoining marsh, nesting boxes, hedgehog houses, and a multi-storey insect headquarters:

Nicko wrote ...

Is that your design? Its rather smart....

Proud Mary wrote ...

So far as I know, the idea of using stacked freight pallets originates with the Nature Conservancy Council. Once one has the basic idea, there are any amount of ways of providing a similar wildlife resource. For example, one can have a damp dark basement for over-wintering amphibians, and a dry ground floor suited to small mammals including hedgehogs - though I like to give the hedgehogs their own denning houses. A goodly pile of logs left to decay in an overgrown corner will provide homes for all manner of small wildlife.

Vertically mounted planks with myriad holes drilled in them can make good homes for solitary bees and all sorts.

A friend of mine has put cameras in nesting boxes, with the display in her farm shop-cafe. It is very popular with visitors, and I may try something similar with some of the hedgehog houses.

Nicko wrote ...

Being "out in the sticks" as we are, we have plenty of log piles and, indeed, a 1.7 acre derelict orchard which hasn't been touched for at least the 20 years we've been here. The orchard is a haven for wildlife, except that we have 4 serial killers (cats), so some predation occurs...

I keep bees (even got a professional qualification in apiculture - not on my CV!), so am very interesting is the varieties of feral/wild bees we have here. So far, I've identified 7 types of "bumble" bee and my favourite, tawny mining bees, of which we have a sizable number.

Oddly, for many years whenever I've been stung I barely noticed - recently 50% of the stings I get (not many) result in really painful lumps. Either I'm becoming allergic, or some of my bees are feeding on dangerous stuff.