ST3373 Centipede

Centipede - Scolopendra subspini

Distribution: Central and western China

The first pair of legs of a centipede with clasp, sharp, hook-I have venom, commonly known as the palate teeth, teeth or claws drug limb, and so on, can emit Daishi. After being bitten by a centipede, a large number of its venom secrete venom, the venom-mouth dental palate Victims subcutaneous injection result of poisoning.
Medicinal centipede lip-footed large multi-legged animals, only 21 Buju and one pair of jaw foot; "string of money" is a centipede, only 15 on the Buju and one pair of jaw foot; "Ishihara Centipede" and only 15 on the step enough. Centipede Buju also some additional short, 35 right, 45 pairs to a maximum of 173 to right.

Body length of adult centipede is about 13 cm, body width is 0.5 - 1.1 cm, chiropractors abdominal slightly flat, circular plates head, prominent front, the head plate and first dorsal golden yellow, commonly known as the "head of the centipede." China has branches throughout the South and the North, the production in the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River region, and often live in the hilly areas and more sand in the low mountains, hills, fields, roadsides, overgrown with weeds, or habitats in Chaidui, Fumu and chaos Stone Gap, rubble corner of the kitchen or wet corner of the dark side, and so, a day at night, feeding mating, 8-12 at night is the peak of centipede. The annual Ching Ming Festival, the activities of the centipede season, but also artificial capture, acquisition, the golden season.
Food for centipede: a variety of insects, animal offal, melons and other fruits and leaves, beans, tree trunks as raw materials.

Under natural conditions, centipede likes to live on the hillside, in the field, where the roadside or overgrown with weeds, or live in the Jingyan, Chaidui and tile cracks, especially liked the moist, old ground. Activities of the basic characteristics of a day at night. In the temperature will be less than 10 ℃, Tingyi, minus 7 ℃ going into hibernation period.

Centipede has a life of only six years. After sexual maturity, they like to have mating in the sunny morning of Mar to May and July to Aug, spawning began 40 days, the fertilized eggs produce estrogen centipede in their own back so that timely incubator. Each female ovulation of a centipede 2-3 hours each spawning 80-150 tablets. Rich egg surface mucus, egg into each other stick together egg masses. Estrogen centipede Buchibuhe incubation period until hatching out David centipede. Six months into the commodity cycle will be long centipede.

Centipede (family Scolopendridae, order Scolopendrida): These robust centipedes are typically brightly colored and may be yellow, red, orange, or green, often with dark stripes or bands. They have 21 or 23 pairs of legs and usually four ocelli on either side of the head. Females may burrow under soil, leaf-litter, rocks, or tree bark to lay their eggs. The young have all their legs before they hatch. Can be found worldwide, especially in subtropical and tropical regions, in soil, leaf-litter, or cracks and crevices. Some climb shrubs and trees. Bites from members of this genus, especially smaller species, can cause great pain, fever, and vomiting.