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Today, we are going to talk about centipedes, which are horrifying and scary animals that are related to spiders and scorpions. The name centipede is latin, and means 100 feet. However, this number isn’t true, since centipedes can have as little legs as 30, or as many as 354.
Centipedes have round, flat heads, with a pair on antennae. They have long mandibles, also known as jaws.  Many centipedes don’t have eyes, but some have ocelli, known as simple eyes. Sometimes, a centipede has lots of these simple eyes and have compound eyes, or one eye structure made of multiple simple eyes. However, these can only detect the difference between light and dark, and are not that useful. They can’t actually see anything. Centipedes have modified front legs, known as forcipules. These are unique to centipedes, and they are short with little pincers on the front of them. They capture and inject venom into prey.
Centipedes have many legs, and there are a pair of legs on every section of a centipede after the head. Every centipede has at least 16 sections, so every centipede should have at least 30 legs. The final segment has a tail-like appendage called a telson. There are two groups of centipedes. In one, the anamorphic group, they grow more legs as they grow up. They will start with a few pairs of legs, but as they molt their skins, they will add more pairs of legs. For example, the stone centipede starts with seven pairs, then gradually goes up to 15. The other group, epimorphs, are born with all of their legs and do not grow more as they get older.
For wild suzhou, I’m Ciana, thanks for listening and see you next time.