Yellow earth centipede
The yellow earth centipede is a thin, yellow centipede that lives down in the soil. It has no eyes at all, but it can still feel movement, wetness and light. It wriggles through tiny tunnels on lots and lots of legs.
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Fun facts
A male has 47 to 55 pairs of legs and a female 49 to 59 pairs. That is around a hundred legs.
A mother curls around her 50 or 60 eggs and guards them for weeks, until the babies can hunt by themselves.
A young one can grow back a leg it has lost.
It needs damp places, because its body dries out easily.
Most asked questions about Yellow earth centipede
?How many legs does the yellow earth centipede have?
Around a hundred. Males have 47 to 55 pairs and females 49 to 59 pairs.
?How long does it live?
Usually 2 to 6 years.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Geophilus flavus
- Group
- Centipedes and millipedes
- Family
- Geophilidae
- Classification
- Chilopoda > Geophilomorpha > Geophilidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Yellow geophilus
Where the facts come from
- Geophilus flavus (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 EnDumEn. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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