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FlagFooted Friday

FeatherTailed and FleetFooted
Fearsome, FeatherTailed and FleetFooted

I suspect from my little reading up it’s a feather-legged/-tailed centipede, or Alipes sp.(spp?)/ grandidieri. See Mozambique Diary for a great photograph. They have 20-300 feet, not necessarily one hundred…

I have some of his family in my home:

Centipede
Centipede: Scutigera coleoptrata? High-footing Harmless Homebody

We used to have the red-legged kind (a little more scary) in our home in Indonesia:

Indonesian Red-legged Centipede (photographer Rhett A. Butler)

 

 

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