Giant Red centipedes

I had a neighbour who owned one of those cats. :playful::glee:

Thanks for the Centipede mention. Made my whole day. That's one of nature's little gifts I haven't seen around here. We've got just about everything else that lurks and pounces but haven't seen a centipede for years. I'd almost forgotten about them.:glee:
 
He had a few words of advice for Ozarks hikers.“Be careful what you put your hands on,” he said.

... because they might make a movie of it with Burt Reynolds and Ned Beatty ...

Actually I didn't know that MO did NOT have critters like that - I thought big ol' centipedes were all OVER the States.

I notice in the pictures the guy is holding the dead 'pede in his LEFT hand - guess he's not taking any chances on it being a zombie! :eek:

... and tell me there isn't a strong resemblance -

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Egads...more freaky things to deal with! Thanks guys!! Now I can add Arkansas Howlers and Giant Centipedes to the list of rattlesnakes, copperheads, water mocs, and four other poisonous snakes, brown recluse and black widow spiders, bobcats, coyotes, and mountain lions. Oh, and a list as long as your forearm of toxic plants, poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac.

Hubby spotted what he swore was a mountain lion last week creeping through the brush on the hill behind the house. We are high alert around here because of the Gangstas.

It's a wonder I even have the nerve to venture outdoors.
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... and 'mericans think Australia has scary wildlife! :lofl:

Ours are just pussycats. I have Redbacks (identical to Black Widows) as semi-permanent residents in the laundry and a pet Huntsman spider that roams the house eating other smaller spiders and saves me sweeping webs down. It doesn't tackle the Redbacks though, and as long as the Redbacks stay in their nook and clean up whatever they're eating then that's okay with me too. They get a squirt of spray whenever they get about breeding size, but new ones just come in from outside to replace them so..... round it goes.

Never did get fond of snakes though, the only type around this area that's harmless is a green tree snake, the rest are in the top 10 most venomous on the planet so making no pets of them.

But TG! no Mountain Lions! Just Drop Bears. :cool:

http://australianmuseum.net.au/Drop-Bear
 
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Can't do it. Gotta confess the above is a 'furfy'.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_bear

The only reason Wiki ran that pathetic piece of tripe is because they were PAID to, by the Australian Tourist Board, else you'd never have another tourist.

Drop Bears ARE real. Unfortunately I know this because a mating pair was covertly brought into the States several years ago and have multiplied, mainly in the Las Vegas area. Reports of drunken tourists from Iowa being dropped on by the bears are quickly covered up so as not to create a scare on the Strip.

The President tells us they don't exist. That's the surest sign that they DO.
 


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