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| Author: | tjungarayi [ Fri May 12, 2006 2:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RIP |
This morning I awoke to find a centipede curled up in a feotal position outside my front door. I used sulfer and insecticide on my front doorstep. I guess the combination worked! Centipedes eat cockroaches so the advice given about keeping house clear of cockroaches is good. Baits are the best. Have used them around the world and they work all the time. Toads eat centipedes yet centipedes are known to eat toads - so I am not sure whether it is good to have them around. Mind you, it would have to be a m....r f.....g big centipede to eat a toad. |
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| Author: | Anonymous Guy [ Fri May 12, 2006 11:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: RIP |
tjungarayi {L_WROTE}: ............... Mind you, it would have to be a m....r f.....g big centipede to eat a toad.
Not necessarily........ they inject them with venom, paralyse them, & then eat them a mouthful at a time. Same with mice. Mind you they do get pretty large......... is another thread somewhere about the largest I encountered............ happy hunting |
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| Author: | XT21 [ Mon May 15, 2006 5:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Big one |
As far as I recall, the biggest one in HK is around 7 inches long, a local specie, but its very very rare, only cent about this size can get through the tough skin of a toad in order to eat it. BTW, Cent tend to come out and move in door or higher ground when there is going to be a heavy rain storm, if your home is near river of some sort of drainage system that often flood during a rain storm, do be alert, and they dont eat thing a mouthful at a time, its like scorpion, the venom injected also act as a kind of digestive chemical that dissolve the tissue or flesh and so for sucking in. |
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| Author: | Alan [ Mon May 15, 2006 6:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Big one |
XT21 {L_WROTE}: As far as I recall, the biggest one in HK is around 7 inches long
I saw one at least twice as long as that in an old house near Hung Shing Yeh. I was having a shower and looked up to see it curled around the doorframe... |
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| Author: | samx [ Tue May 16, 2006 8:06 am ] |
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I've seen several bigger than that. Two in Tai Peng, and many in Pak Kok. Very nasty creatures and almost indestructible, as mentioned in a previous post. |
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| Author: | XT21 [ Tue May 16, 2006 10:07 am ] |
| Post subject: | Ooops...my mistakes |
I have to admit, its my mistake |
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| Author: | pfel' [ Tue May 16, 2006 2:04 pm ] |
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http://www.boreme.com/boreme/funny-2006/centipede-mouse-p1.php Have a nice day !
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| Author: | XT21 [ Wed May 17, 2006 12:48 pm ] | ||
| Post subject: | Rated R | ||
Not for minors, great video though
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| Author: | Winnie [ Wed May 17, 2006 1:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Insects |
The one I saw in the sink of my flat was bloody red, not white. Almost half of the size of a palm in length. Fortunately I spotted it before I got bite. And there are even more outside the apartment. SInce then, I am very careful before I take a shower or go to sleep. I don't want to be bitten. I was told that a small shop which sells flower seeds and artificial fertilizer in Sham Shui Po have some kind of powder / method to deal with the centipedes. |
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| Author: | tjungarayi [ Fri Jun 02, 2006 5:47 pm ] |
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There are also poisonous scorpions here on Lamma? |
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| Author: | Anonymous Guy [ Fri Jun 02, 2006 9:56 pm ] |
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This is the chap the thread started over. This particular one had walked through a "Baygon Field" & found his way into an umbrella to die. Shaken out, this photo was taken in its last death throes. During very heavy rainfall they are especially likely to seek refuge in YOUR house, & in YOUR bed, & bite YOU in the early hours of the morning 
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| Author: | tjungarayi [ Sat Jun 03, 2006 6:55 am ] |
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There seem to be two types. Is the smaller orange and black centipede posionous as well? They seem to be more prolific at the moment and squash easier. |
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| Author: | Lamma-Gung [ Sat Jun 03, 2006 8:15 am ] |
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Nice, detailed shot of the "Lamma Animal of the Day", the animal that most of us have had some "first-hand" (or first-foot") experience with. There are all-black centipedes with very irregular, longer, kind of shaggy legs which are by far not as dangerous and aggressive as the orange/black ones, big or small. |
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| Author: | Dr. Walsh [ Sat Jun 03, 2006 11:28 am ] |
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Are the little orange ones just baby big ones or a different sort altogether ? |
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| Author: | Lamma-Gung [ Sat Jun 03, 2006 4:29 pm ] |
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Just baby big ones, small but nasty. I've seen them crawl up rough walls of old buildings... |
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| Author: | tjungarayi [ Sat Jun 03, 2006 6:23 pm ] |
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I have only seen the uniformly brown centipedes large and small ( as in the picture above ) and only small orange and black ones. I have not seen any black ones with unshaven legs. So are the orange and black coloured ones venomous? |
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| Author: | XT21 [ Sat Jun 03, 2006 11:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Scorpion clarification |
There is no known wild scorpions in the area of HK |
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| Author: | jimmi james [ Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Scorpions in HK,,.......YES |
Greetings I have found many scorpions in HK .The species is "Hormurus Australasiae".It is small (about 2-3cm long) and black and doesn't seem to bother stinging a human when hassled.The scorpions were first found in Tai Po Kau area in the early 1970s and i have also found them in areas of Sai Kung.Look under stones and planks of wood and one day u will see them too.They seem to enjoy hanging out in groups. Peace JJ |
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