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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

William S. Burroughs The Western Lands



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HABITS & HABITATS
can stridulate as a defensive display
http://www.zoo.utoronto.ca/punzalan/bugfacts.htm




REPRO

1 generation per year in nature
eggs overwinter and hatch in spring
five nymph stadia + ultimate stadia
will stridulate in courtship Smile
http://www.zoo.utoronto.ca/punzalan/bugfacts.htm

awesome courtship and mating pics: http://www.zoo.utoronto.ca/punzalan/bugfacts.htm
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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

William S. Burroughs The Western Lands



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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

William S. Burroughs The Western Lands



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PICS



*** http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=1366032
. . http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=1366033
. . http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=1366034
. . http://www.forestryimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=1366035

**.5 *** http://www.zzforkids.com/Animals/P/Phymata_americana.asp (gallery on bottom of page)
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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

William S. Burroughs The Western Lands



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LINKS


****.5 http://www.zoo.utoronto.ca/punzalan/bugfacts.htm


***.5 http://www.livescience.com/animals/071218-ambush-bug.html


*** http://www.zzforkids.com/Animals/P/Phymata_americana.asp

**.5 http://www.itis.gov/servlet/Singl...topic=TSN&search_value=107174




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http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/arn042v1 (Contemporary sexual selection on sexually dimorphic traits in the ambush bug Phymata americana)
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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

William S. Burroughs The Western Lands



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Phymata americana - {American} ambush bug

Phymata americana - {American} ambush bug
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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

William S. Burroughs The Western Lands



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Phymata americana americana

Phymata americana americana
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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

William S. Burroughs The Western Lands



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Phymata americana coloradensis

Phymata americana coloradensis
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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

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Phymata americana metcalfi

Phymata americana metcalfi



pic: http://www.naturewatch.ca/eman/re...s/99_montane/heterop/phymata.html
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There may be people who like centipedes. I have seen people handling tarantulas and scorpions, but never a centipede handler. I would regard such a person with deep suspicion...Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede on its underbelly "And here is my big good centipede." If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.

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Phymata americana obscura

Phymata americana obscura



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