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2. Here’s Why You Should Never Kill a House Centipede - AOL

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   House centipedes typically have 15 legs and can travel 1.3 feet-per-second, which explains why catching one of these centipedes in house is nearly impossible. The typical response to a house ...

3. Centipede bite - Wikipedia

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   A centipede bite is an injury resulting from the action of a centipede's forcipules, stinger-like appendages that pierce the skin and inject venom into the wound. Such a wound is not strictly speaking a bite , as the forcipules are a modified first pair of legs rather than true mouthparts .

4. Centipede - Wikipedia

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   Centipedes are elongated segmented animals with one pair of legs per body segment. All centipedes are venomous and can inflict painful stings, injecting their venom through pincer-like appendages known as forcipules or toxicognaths, which are actually modified legs instead of fangs. Despite the name, no species of centipede has exactly 100 legs ...

5. Insects in ethics - Wikipedia

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   A common fruit fly; these insects are commonly used in scientific experiments. Insects and human ethical obligations towards them have been discussed by a number of writers and figures throughout history, many of whom, arguing from a variety of different perspectives, have contended that there exists a moral obligation towards not harming or killing insects.

6. Scutigera - Wikipedia

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   Scutigera is a centipede genus in the scutigeromorph (house centipede) family Scutigeridae, a group of centipedes with long limbs and true compound eyes (which were once thought to be secondary, re-evolved "pseudofacetted eyes" [1]).

7. How to Get Rid of Silverfish in Your Home - AOL

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   Spiders, centipedes, and earwigs are natural predators of silverfish. While silverfish are typically harmless to humans, they can destroy books by feeding on protein-rich gums and binding pastes ...