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KodRoute Griñón, Madrid, Spain Dec 18, 2012

thanks.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Dec 18, 2012

House centipede, Scutigera coleoptrata - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata

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KodRoute Griñón, Madrid, Spain Dec 18, 2012

thanks, could you tell me what can i feed him?

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Dec 18, 2012

They will eat just about any arthropod (insect, spider, other centipedes, etc.) that they can overpower.

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KodRoute Griñón, Madrid, Spain Dec 22, 2012

I found him dead in a bottle lid (where it was a small quantity of water). Did he committ suicide? Or had an accident? I also put there a spider that was relatively smaller than the centipede, but he wouldn't eat it.

The spider as well was dead in the bottle lid few days before.

Tx.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Dec 22, 2012

Three possibilities:
1. Natural causes
2. Spider bite
3. Drowning

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TrumpetFlowerz Ft Myers, FL(Zone 10a) Dec 25, 2012

Water should be given to insects in a small, shallow dish with pebbles added to this dish. It keeps the insects from drowning. Insects
breathe through their legs.
Read the part on the thorax, near bottom of that paragraph: http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/ythfacts/4h/unit1/labgrass.htm

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