{"id":451,"date":"2013-02-24T21:05:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T04:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inkofpark.wordpress.com\/?p=451"},"modified":"2024-09-01T20:17:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T02:17:06","slug":"big-centipede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"Big Centipede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last August my son\u2019s school started the year with a school-wide focus on insects. When we\u2019d drop him off or pick him up we would see experiments laid out to determine various properties of ant behavior. We collected arthropods to bring in too, butterflies, bees, spiders, whatever we could find.<\/p>\n<p>One evening my wife was sitting on the couch, and I was wandering about the kitchen. We were talking. She noticed something crawling across the floor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20120819-14-edited.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image:none;margin:5px;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border-width:0;\" title=\"20120819-14-edited\" alt=\"20120819-14-edited\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20120819-14-edited_thumb.jpg\" width=\"644\" height=\"437\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This centipede is about 11 cm long, or about 4.5 inches. This is not that big in an absolute sense. You aren\u2019t going to be carried off. But as crawly critters go, this is really, really big. I think this is desert tiger centipede, but I really don\u2019t have a key or guide that I trust.<\/p>\n<p>The centipede is really a neat animal. Primitive, segmented all over, even the antennae. Alien, though, is the word I think when I see it. Their eyesight isn\u2019t good, their shell isn\u2019t robust and they\u2019ll dry out if left in the sun. I suppose this is why we haven\u2019t seen any of these again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20120819-25-edited.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image:none;margin:5px;padding-left:0;padding-right:0;display:inline;padding-top:0;border-width:0;\" title=\"20120819-25-edited\" alt=\"20120819-25-edited\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/20120819-25-edited_thumb.jpg\" width=\"644\" height=\"408\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We brought it in to share with the class. I think it was unwelcome since ti came home the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last August my son\u2019s school started the year with a school-wide focus on insects. When we\u2019d drop him off or pick him up we would see experiments laid out to determine various properties of ant behavior. We collected arthropods to bring in too, butterflies, bees, spiders, whatever we could find. One evening my wife was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","tag-naturalist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inkofpark.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}