Life and death in the critter room

[ssssnakeluvr]

only an 1/8"??? this one is about 3/4" long...

[Snake lover 3-25]

ick!!!!!!!!! i would def kill it............

[ssssnakeluvr]

here's the lone angry gopher snake I found yesterday...just had lunch also....

[ssssnakeluvr]

centipede I found.... took severaldifferent shots with different backgrounds...makes a difference!!!





and here's the scorpion....

[ssssnakeluvr]

also took some photos of feeding time....white striped bird eater tarantula....



lunch...I mean a large grasshoppper....



and the end result...lunch!!

[Snake lover 3-25]

wow you find those outside?????!!!!!!!!!!!!! well..... i guess you find them in alot of places.......... thank god their not where i live!!!!!!!

but i love the pics of the snake!!!!!

[Loren]

I am curious about centipedes now myself. How can they hurt you? What do you feed them?? I'm not going to get one, just looking to learn now!

And Don, can't wait to see pics!!!

What appears to be the short front pair of legs on a centipede are actually stingers- so they can deliver a sting that is similar to a scorpion. I dont know their biology really well, so my wording might not be quite right- but in a nutshell- yes they can hurt you. Not considered deadly at all, but I have heard its pretty painful.
I feed them crickets- 1 each, every several days. They hunt them down, pounce on them and wrap the front of their body over the cricket while they envenomate it, then they eat it with their mandibles.
I also mist the side of the cage for them to drink the droplets off.
They are cool. I need to take pics of mine sometime too.

[Loren]

wow you find those outside?????!!!!!!!!!!!!! well..... i guess you find them in alot of places.......... thank god their not where i live!!!!!!!

but i love the pics of the snake!!!!!

But they are soooo cute!


I like all of them Don- very nice.

[Stefan-A]

Something tells me that the scorpion you have there has relatively potent venom.

[ssssnakeluvr]

the first pair of legs are fangs for them to inject their venom with. most species are harmless, however, my recently deceased Vietnamese centipde (around 10" long) can deliver a nasty bite and there has been one recorded death from their bite. centipedes are pretty much everywhere in the U.S. most are small. I found one species in Idaho that was 2" long and about 2 mm wide...long skinny guys!!! there are orange ones (like the doa one in the assassin bug photos) that are common all over...easy to find in gardens.