We have centipedes on a little a island in the South China Sea, but none I have seen have ever been longer than six or seven inches. Even so, they pack a really, really, nasty, venomous and very painful bite. (I know of what I speak.) Turns out, however, there are even larger centipedes!
According to Wikipedia, scolopendra gigantea, more commonly known among creepy-crawly cognoscenti as the ‘Peruvian giant yellow leg centipede’ or 'Amazonian giant centipede’, can grow as long as ten inches. Shock horror!
As those common names indicate, that particular centipede is native to lands far from here. Long may it stay that way.
Which all brings me to this: a video of one of those giant centipedes, grabbing, paralysing and then dining on a (white) mouse. Not for the squeamish, those of a nervous disposition, etc. Nature, red in tooth and claw. . . Youtube: snack attack
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