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Of topic, but I am the one who posted the wallpaper-sized image of a House Centipede several months ago. Hilariously, a large number of posters here (many of whom own many, probably large, possibly even venomous snakes) got freaked out by it.

Their panic was understandable, however, given what a House Centipede looks like running across the floor at twilight towards your bare feet.

Well, this tops that:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWASwBWyUXI&feature=player_embedded

My reaction: AAAAAHHHH! AAAAAAAAAAHHHH! OMGWTFBBQ.

I'm actually a fan of spiders and creepy crawlies, but WTH? I assume they are grouping together for heat?
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Lincoln, NE
Ball Pythons - 0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma (hidden gene?), 0.1 Yellowbelly
2.1 Normals
Kingsnakes - 1.0 L. m. thayeri, 0.1 L. m. thayeri X L. alterna, 1.0 L. g. californiae
Other - 0.1 Whitesided P. catenifer sayi, 1.0 H. nascicus, ?.? Chrysemys picta, 0.1 crazy cat, 1.0 husband

OMG! Is that natural?
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Alice Cobb
Florida Reptile Room

That was pretty cool! I missed the centipede! Can you repost it?

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Lincoln, NE
Ball Pythons - 0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma (hidden gene?), 0.1 Yellowbelly
2.1 Normals
Kingsnakes - 1.0 L. m. thayeri, 0.1 L. m. thayeri X L. alterna, 1.0 L. g. californiae
Other - 0.1 Whitesided P. catenifer sayi, 1.0 H. nascicus, ?.? Chrysemys picta, 0.1 crazy cat, 1.0 husband

Can you get a closer shot? LOL! I should set that as my screen saver for my wife!

I read that right after I made that my screen saver for my wife...

....thought alike.....

LOL.....

and I sent the jumping spider as a big pic to my brother...he hates spiders....wussy.....LOL......

(actually I don't like spiders ON me....)...

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........JY

Around here, we call those freaky things "Spiderpillars."
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Cheers!
• Chelsea Lynn Gardiner
(and Frank M. Wood)

I Loved your House Centipede pic, thanks for posting it again. I've tried to take pics of them a few times but never got one so good as yours. They are so fast so hard to get to sit still long enough for a good pic.

The video is AWESOME. A Daddy Longlegs is your typical Cellar Spider which are true spiders. What is in your video look like Harvestmen, they are not true spiders. But they are super cool. My dad taught me at a very early age how to properly pick them up and handle them so as not to break off their very delicate legs. That experience caused me to not grow up afraid of them, or spiders or other creapy crawlies

At work peole know to come get me when there is a spider. I capture them (if left there they'd get squished by one of the spider haters) bring them home, feed them some crickets, then release them.

Picture 1 is an awesome Jumping Spider "Jack" who I rescued from work. There is also a link to a video of Jack.

Picture 2 is a Tobacco Horn Worm I caught in the Woods

Picture 3 is a Wolf Spider "Charlotte" who I rescued from work.

Keep up the great work with your photos and videos and thanks so much for sharing!!!!

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Jumping Spider Video

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Slytherin Serpents

Have you been hugged by your snake today?

Ball Pythons
1.1 Normals het Caramel (Edward & Bella)
0.1 Normal 66% ph Caramel (Rosalie)
0.1 Caramel (Bellatrix)
1.0 Honey Bee (Aragog)
0.1 Hypo Pastel (Nagini)
0.1 Spider 66% ph Hypo(Nymphadora)
1.1 Mojaves (Lucius & Renesme)
1.1 Pastel Lessers (Jacob & Narcissa)
0.1 Pinstripe (Arwen)
1.0 Pewter (Salazar)
0.1 Bumble Bee (Alice)
0.1 Lemonblast (Luna)
1.0 Bell Pastel (Jasper)
0.1 African Dinker (Esme)
0.1 Normal (Madame Olympe Maxime)
0.1 Het Pied
1.1 Pastel "Dinker" Babies (Snape & Xiomara)

Corns
1.1 Normals het Amel, Anery, Charcoal, Diffused, Hypo (Romeo & Juliet)
1.0 Blizzard het Diffused (Tumnus)
1.0 Blizzard poss het Anery, Hypo, Diffused (Cotton)
0.1 Anery Lavender het Amel (Lucy)
0.1 Plasma poss het Hypo (Victoria)
1.0 Plasma poss het Albino
1.0 Hypo Plasma
0.1 Opal (Jewel)
0.1 Amel Motley (Ginny)
0.1 Diffused poss het Anery
0.1 Lavender Motley poss het diffused
1.0 Lavender Pinstripe Motley het Amel
1.0 Charcoal Ghost poss het Anery, Albino, Diffused
0.1 Fire poss het Anery, Charcoal, Hypo (LeeLoo)
0.1 Normal het Albino, Lavender, Anery, Charcoal, poss het Diffused
1.0 Albino het Lavender, Anery, Charcoal, poss het Diffused
1.1 Sunkissed poss het Plasma (Arthur & Molly)

Thayeri Kings
0.1 Leonis (Sidney)
1.0 MSP

I'd love to take credit for the House Centipede pic, but it actually belongs to a friend of mine who is an Entomologist at the University. Since we are trading "creepy" pictures, here is a good one to share that is mine (compressed so it is easier to see):

Female Wolfspider out on the prairie, carrying her young. I submitted this in some photo contests, but never got anything. Understandable since people tend to get a little freaked out by millions of tiny spiders on a giant one

Here is a gallery of pictures I took while TAing Herpetology at UNL: Herpetology Gallery
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Lincoln, NE
Ball Pythons - 0.1 Pastel, 1.0 Pastel het Pied, 0.1 Pied, 0.1 Cinn, 1.0 Black Pewter, 1.0 Woma (hidden gene?), 0.1 Yellowbelly
2.1 Normals
Kingsnakes - 1.0 L. m. thayeri, 0.1 L. m. thayeri X L. alterna, 1.0 L. g. californiae
Other - 0.1 Whitesided P. catenifer sayi, 1.0 H. nascicus, ?.? Chrysemys picta, 0.1 crazy cat, 1.0 husband

Those are really awesome photos! I especially liked the tiny ringneck baby, how cute!!!! The wolf spider with babies is really neat too.

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Slytherin Serpents

Have you been hugged by your snake today?

Ball Pythons
1.1 Normals het Caramel (Edward & Bella)
0.1 Normal 66% ph Caramel (Rosalie)
0.1 Caramel (Bellatrix)
1.0 Honey Bee (Aragog)
0.1 Hypo Pastel (Nagini)
0.1 Spider 66% ph Hypo(Nymphadora)
1.1 Mojaves (Lucius & Renesme)
1.1 Pastel Lessers (Jacob & Narcissa)
0.1 Pinstripe (Arwen)
1.0 Pewter (Salazar)
0.1 Bumble Bee (Alice)
0.1 Lemonblast (Luna)
1.0 Bell Pastel (Jasper)
0.1 African Dinker (Esme)
0.1 Normal (Madame Olympe Maxime)
0.1 Het Pied
1.1 Pastel "Dinker" Babies (Snape & Xiomara)

Corns
1.1 Normals het Amel, Anery, Charcoal, Diffused, Hypo (Romeo & Juliet)
1.0 Blizzard het Diffused (Tumnus)
1.0 Blizzard poss het Anery, Hypo, Diffused (Cotton)
0.1 Anery Lavender het Amel (Lucy)
0.1 Plasma poss het Hypo (Victoria)
1.0 Plasma poss het Albino
1.0 Hypo Plasma
0.1 Opal (Jewel)
0.1 Amel Motley (Ginny)
0.1 Diffused poss het Anery
0.1 Lavender Motley poss het diffused
1.0 Lavender Pinstripe Motley het Amel
1.0 Charcoal Ghost poss het Anery, Albino, Diffused
0.1 Fire poss het Anery, Charcoal, Hypo (LeeLoo)
0.1 Normal het Albino, Lavender, Anery, Charcoal, poss het Diffused
1.0 Albino het Lavender, Anery, Charcoal, poss het Diffused
1.1 Sunkissed poss het Plasma (Arthur & Molly)

Thayeri Kings
0.1 Leonis (Sidney)
1.0 MSP

I could deal with the Daddy Long Legs and the Spiderpillar, but that is just downright terrifying. I'll take my venomous snakes before I trust THAT mass of horror anywhere near me.
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Cheers!
• Chelsea Lynn Gardiner
(and Frank M. Wood)