May & June have become Centipede months in my...

[missydog1]

the small blue ones are immature specimens of the common brown ceintipede. Their bite is worse because they are too young to have learned to dose their venom and release it all.

There is another species here that is more orange, with blue bands, even in the adults. Scolopendra polymorpha

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=44098

The blue babies/brown adults are the scolopendra subsnipes, the Pacific centipede.

There is no evidence that coqui frogs eat cintipedes.

Another attraction for centipedes is the presence of prey. They eat bugs.

My sympathies go out to all of you who were bit.

Loretta, most everything about your story sounds like a centipede bite (not so sure about the itching), but the bite marks ought to be visible. Mine were, for six months, very distinct. Hope your husband gets all better soon!

PS. We also have scorpions in Hawai'i. I almost stepped on a scorpion in a hallway once, many years ago in the California desert. Any chance it could be that?
PPS. If it was a centipede, I would be spraying and hunting, as it is probably still in the house!

[the hare]

our cat Ziggy hunts and slowly kills them with quick repeated jabs with her claws

[Beachboy]

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Originally posted by Loretta

Husband got up in the middle of the night Monday and suddenly his foot was burning along with intense itching. The next morning we could not find the "bite marks" and were unsure if it was a centipede or a spider. By the morning the foot and ankle were bright red and terribly, terribly swollen. We finally ended up taking him to the doctor on Tues. afternoon. He was given a tetanus shot (doc said that cetipedes are dirty little critters) and antibiotics. Doc said that if the foot was not getting better in 24 hours then he would have to be admitted to the hospital. We convinced ourselves that the foot was looking a little better on Wed. to avoid hospital(really it was not)but by this morning we could definitely see that the swelling had gone down some. We never found any centipedes or spiders (dead or alive)in the house. Scary stuff.

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it sure sounds like a centipede encounter to me. I remember back in the mid 70's getting stung twice in a matter of minutes! I was in bed in Lahaina Maui, and awoke to a terrible stinging,burning sensation on my lower back/upper buttock. It was so bad, I was sure I was attacked by something. I flew out of bed,and quickly started rip to covers off my bed. While doing this I must have moved the centipede to the floor. "Bam", stung again, this time bottom of foot! Pain & discomfort stayed about one week to ten days after I was stung.

I just took away another centipede from my two dogs just about ann hour ago!!! Both of my dogs are under 3yrs of age,and I don't think either have been stung yet!

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[konadave]

Okay, I am going to go out on a limb here. What I am about to say is rumor ONLY and I do not know it to be true. If you want to try this you can. I work for a rock and gravel company and one of the owners repeatedly states he had centipede problems until he surrounded his house with a path about a foot or two wide of #56 rock. He claims the centipedes have a hard time crossing the rocks so once they encounter difficulty they turn around or they die trying. He claims he finds dead centipedes in the rocks all the time. The #56 rock is mostly 1/2"-1" in size. Don't come after me if you try it and it doesn't work. But he swears by it. []

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