Centipede With Really Long Legs

The adult house centipede has 15 pairs of very long jointed legs.

Centipede with really long legs. Their legs and antennae are shorter than those of the house centipede. Its body is brownish to grayish-yellow with three dark stripes visible from above. More than 1 inch long fully grown.

The worst kind of centipede is the house centipedes. A dark reddish-brown body paired with yellow legs this centipede grows up to 2 inches long. Remember they have 30 legs a pair for each body segment and these legs are long and nimble.

What makes them appear so large is the length of their legs in comparison to their body size. House centipedes are the really fast ones that have really long legs that sort of make them look like evil feathers running around on the walls. The truth is that centipedes could have as little as 30 legs or as many as 300 legs.

Despite their creepy appearance these centipedes really arent all that bad. I hate those things. Each leg is encircled by dark and white bands.

A lot of people believe that centipedes all have 100 legs because the prefix centi means 100 in the metric system. Similar to centipede millipede comes from the Latin words for one thousand and foot Centipedes have segmented bodies that usually have one pair of legs per segment. Looks something like a centipede but only has 30 long almost spider like legs.

Australia currently has 128 species of centipede out of a worldwide fauna of between 2500 and 3000 species. Despite a common name that means 100 legs Australian species of centipede can have from 15 to 191 pairs of legs. They just are.