Japanese giant centipede
The Japanese giant centipede is a long, flat centipede with a dark greenish brown body and lots of yellow to red legs. It can grow longer than your hand. It hunts at night and hides under leaves, stones and logs during the day.
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Fun facts
It is a night hunter, like most centipedes.
During the day it sometimes rests right at the tips of tree branches.
Sometimes it wanders into gardens and even into houses.
Scientists changed their minds several times about whether it is its own species, and finally decided yes in 2012.
Most asked questions about Japanese giant centipede
?What does the Japanese giant centipede eat?
Insects and spiders, such as cockroaches, crickets and spiders.
?How big is the Japanese giant centipede?
It usually grows 7,5 to 13 centimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Scolopendra japonica
- Named by
- Koch, 1878
- Group
- Centipedes and millipedes
- Family
- Scolopendridae
- Classification
- Chilopoda > Scolopendromorpha > Scolopendridae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Blue-head centipede
Where the facts come from
- Scolopendra japonica (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Gaison64. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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