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23rd June 2013, 10:39 PM #1
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Bug???
I was slicing some Dead Finish logs today and this thing was inside one in a rot pocket, untouched by the bandsaw. The macro lens was still on the camera so I waited until he stopped on the bark and rattled off about 20 freehand shots, this being about the best of them (reduced for posting of course).
The body is about 30mm long, about 70mm overall when he's stationary like this. He's now under the lathe in the shavings somewhere
Anyone have any idea what it is???
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23rd June 2013, 11:44 PM #2
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Looks like an overgrown earwig.
Must be the dead finish he's been eating.
Peter.
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24th June 2013, 12:26 AM #3
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Looks like a house centipede. Scutigera coleoptrata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Far from plesant discovery.
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24th June 2013, 01:24 PM #4
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Sounds like a friend to me
Originally Posted by JJMA
"House centipedes feed on spiders, bed bugs, termites, cockroaches, silverfish, ants, and other household arthropods."
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24th June 2013, 09:27 PM #5
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Hmmph!! . . . and here I was thinking it was something exotic and unusual
. Ah well - should be a few less bugs in the shed to worry about now
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