josh_r
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scavenging heroslast time i was in arizona, i stopped the car for what i thought was going to be just a snake. well turns out.. well, it was a snake, but it was getting munched by a heros!! now the snake did get hit by a car previously, but this is still pretty cool!
-josh
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ftorres
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HEllo Josh,
Many of my friends who go to AZ herping do find many centis doing this.
This is how they catch them so easily.
regards
francisco
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josh_r
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i know they are commonly found scavenging on road kill. friends and i have commonly found them eating road kill toads and rodents. it was funny to me because i stopped for a snake and got a centipede. on top of that, it is a morph that i had not expected to be found there. i had not expected the banded form to be found where i was.
-josh
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brachybaum
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I'm fixing to take a Phoenix, AZ trip soon, where are the best spots to look for some animals??
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balam
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Arizona should be loaded with things crawling around. You shouldn't have a problem finding either T's or scorpions all around (try the rest stops along the way as well  ).
And as you can see, you may just find 'pedes eating snakes out there. :p
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cacoseraph
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very interesting!
i wonder if this means some populations get more semi-traditional meat than others?
though, it might be that feedingon roadkill is limited to individuals in the population and is not general behavior... or there just isn't enough roadkill (one hopes) to make much of a difference in the population
good stuff Josh! thanks for posting
oh, and that pede is beautiful :drool:
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Habibi18
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Holy crap!
I never knew that they could even do this! Mice yes but snakes?! Hell no! If someone had told me this without pics I wouldn't believe them because I would've thought that the snakes would eat the poor things.
Obviously I was wrong......so wrong. But this is cool!
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Celeste
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Habibi: the snake was already killed by a car. The centipede was just scavenging.
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Steven
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nope ...heros seek out and kill snakes.
making that up ...but coool post btw!
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Habibi18
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| Celeste wrote: | | Habibi: the snake was already killed by a car. The centipede was just scavenging. |
*Slaps forehead* I forgot about that I got so into the fact of centipedes eating snakes period.
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