• blackbrook@mander.xyz
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    21 hours ago

    Millipedes or centipedes? I always used to get the names backwards, but centipedes are the nightmare fuel one (to my mind), lighting fast and all legs. Millipedes, the legs are less dominantly noticeable an I think of as more of a forest-floor, under-a-log kind of thing.

    I just found and smashed a couple of centipedes in my house the past couple days. My reaction is instinctual and violent. It freaks me out to wonder what they’ve been eating to get so large.

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      21 hours ago

      Pretty sure it was millipedes. Lots of little legs that go down below the body, versus fewer legs that stick out to the side. And they smelled when squished.

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        18 hours ago

        Weird! Ok, I’m less horrified now.

        Come to think if it, centipedes are too fast for the thing your dad did. I bet millipides are a lot crunchier though.