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May & June have become Centipede months in my...
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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!
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RE: May & June have become Centipede months in my... - by missydog1 - 06-18-2009, 10:14 AM
RE: May & June have become Centipede months in my... - by missydog1 - 06-19-2009, 06:13 AM

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