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Peruvian giant centipede

Scolopendra gigantea

Kufuna ugqirhaKunqabile ukuba sibulale, kodwa ukulunywa kufuna ugqirha.

Iinkume

UkulumaSitya: Inyama

Ingozi ebantwini: Kubi kakhuluUkulunywa kufuna ugqirha. Ukufa kunqabe kakhulu.

The Peruvian giant centipede is the largest centipede species in the world, growing longer than 30 centimetres. It lives in northern South America and on several Caribbean islands, mostly in rainforests and dry forests. It hunts a wide range of animals, from insects to bats, and its venom is strong enough to stop small mammals.1

Sihlala

Northern South America, with verified records from Aruba, Brazil, Curaçao, Colombia, Venezuela (including Margarita Island) and Trinidad1

uMzantsi Melika

Ekhaya

It lives in tropical or sub-tropical rainforest and tropical dry forest, hiding in dark, damp places such as leaf litter, under rocks and logs, and under tree bark. Near human buildings, it often hides in trash piles, rubble, plant pots, crawl spaces under buildings, under old floor and ceiling boards, and in cracks in wooden, concrete and brick walls.1

Ubude

30 cm (1 ft)1

Esona santya siphezulu

malunga ne-2,5 km/h (1,6 mph)

Emhlabeni, uqikelelo nje

Sitya ntoni?

It eats any animal it can overpower and kill, including large insects, worms, snails, spiders, scorpions, millipedes, tarantulas, small lizards, frogs, snakes, sparrow-sized birds, mice and bats. Large individuals climb cave ceilings and use a few legs to hold on while they handle heavier prey, such as bats.1

Ifoto ka-Peruvian giant centipede — Peruvian giant centipede. Ifoto: Katka Nemčoková. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Indlela yokusiqaphela

It is the largest centipede species in the world, with a length exceeding 30 centimetres.1
Specimens may have 21 or 23 body segments.1
Its common name refers to yellow legs.1
It climbs readily and can rest in hiding spaces under tree bark.1

Amandla etyhefu yokuluma nokuhlaba

Ukuluma

Ityhefu iphuma ngamazinyo aso etyhefu okanye ngamazinyo aso xa siluma.

Ityhefu yaso yokuluma okanye yokuhlaba yenza ntoni?

Its venom is strong enough to immobilise small mammals it hunts, such as bats and mice. The venom is produced in a modified pair of legs placed under the head.1

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

Ingozi ebantwini: Kubi kakhuluUkulunywa kufuna ugqirha. Ukufa kunqabe kakhulu.

At least one human death has been linked to its venom. In 2014, a four-year-old child in Venezuela died after being bitten by a giant centipede hidden inside an open soda can. Researchers at Universidad de Oriente later confirmed the animal was this species.1

Ukuba siyaluma

Hlamba indawo elunyiweyo, uyipholise okanye uyifake emanzini afudumeleyo ngenxa yeentlungu, kwaye ufumane uncedo lwezonyango ukuba iya isiba mbi ngakumbi.

Soloko utsalela inombolo kaxakeka kuqala (112, 000, 911). Esi sisikhokelo soncedo lokuqala ngokubanzi, asilocebiso lwezonyango. Iziseko zoncedo lokuqala

Hlala ukhuselekile

Ungaze uchukumise, ubambe okanye uqhule isilwanyana sasendle, nokuba sincinci, kwaye nokuba sibonakala silele okanye sifile.
Sinike indawo. Ukuba udibana naso, hlala uzolile, buyela umva kancinci kwaye usiyeke sihambe ngendlela yaso.
Ukuba siyakuluma: hlala uzolile, musa ukushukuma, tsalela inombolo kaxakeka (112, 000, 911) okanye uye esibhedlele ngokukhawuleza. Khumbula ukuba sasikhangeleka njani, ifoto iyanceda.

Asikuzingeli. Sisebenzisa ityhefu yaso ukubamba ukutya okanye ukuzikhusela, kwaye singakhetha ukuzimela. Okungakumbi malunga nokuhlala ukhuselekile

Phi emhlabeni?

IAfrika IAsiya IYurophu uMntla Melika uMzantsi Melika IOstreliya neOceania

Sikhulu kangakanani?

Side kangakanani?

ubude obulingana neebhloko zokudlala zokwakha eziyi-9 zilandelelanasingagqiba iimitha ezili-100 ngemizuzwana eyi-140 (owona mntu ukhawulezayo udinga i-9,6)

U-Peruvian giant centipede mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?

Zizibalo nje kwibhrawuza yakho. Akukho nto igcinwayo okanye ithunyelwa naphi na.

Sikhawuleza kangakanani?

Ufudo malunga ne-0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Peruvian giant centipede malunga ne-2,5 km/h (1,6 mph)

Umntu ohambayo malunga ne-5 km/h (3,1 mph)

kufanelekile ukwazi

Iinyaniso

Large individuals have a clever way of catching bats: they climb cave ceilings and hold their heavier prey with only a few legs attached to the ceiling.1

It is the largest centipede species in the world, with a length exceeding 30 centimetres.1

It can overpower animals as large as tarantulas, and it can also kill snakes up to 25 centimetres long.1

Its venom comes from a modified pair of legs placed just underneath its head.1

It climbs readily and will use hiding spaces under tree bark.1

Its natural predators include large birds, spiders, and mammals that hunt arthropods, such as the coati, kinkajou and opossum.1

Kwiingcali zetyhefu

Igama lenzululwazi: Scolopendra gigantea
Iqela: Iinkume
Usapho: Scolopendridae2
Ucwangco: Scolopendromorpha
Amazwekazi: uMzantsi Melika
Ingozi ebantwini: 3 / 5: Kubi kakhulu3

Apho iinyaniso zivela khona

Scolopendra gigantea (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Scolopendra gigantea (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
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