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Florida Blue Centipede

Hemiscolopendra marginata

Description:

A blue centipede I found in North Georgia.

Habitat:

Forest floor

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2 Comments

ForestDragon
ForestDragon 11 years ago

A little more info since bugguide's page didn't have much:
http://scabies.myfreeforum.org/archive/u...

AllisonM
AllisonM 11 years ago

This is a scolopendra. I was used to live in Gudeloupe wher you find a lot of them. They can be pretty nasty. If they bite this can become very dangerous and very badly infected. Better watch out them!

kaori.emi
Spotted by
kaori.emi

Georgia, USA

Spotted on Jul 29, 2012
Submitted on Jul 30, 2012

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