• 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.eeEnglish
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    vor 6 Monaten

    What kind of insect is that? I can’t think of anything with that many legs that eats cockroaches.

    • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      vor 6 Monaten

      Insects have 6 legs. If I had to guess its a centipede drawn with too many legs per segment.

        • Land_Strider@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          vor 6 Monaten

          I’ve encountered these guys all my life. They are mostly small skittering puffy-stretches at a glance, but sometimes they can look like their red headed larger and snake-eating relatives at 4-5cm lengths.

          They are extremely soft to the touch, as if a very light breeze just brushed off your arm hair. What I didn’t know is that they are like cats in this behaviour:

          House centipedes have been observed to groom their legs by curling around and grooming them with their forcipules.