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September 02, 2005
And you thought the roaches were bad.
Aaron Balick got a bit of a nasty shock when he heard some rustling under papers in the corner of his living room.
"Thinking it was a mouse, I went to investigate the sound," the 32-year-old psychotherapist said yesterday. "The sound was coming from under some papers, which I lifted expecting to see the mouse scamper away."
If he's the twitchy type about things that scurry, its a very good thing he can treat himself. And you know it wasn't a mouse. It as a venomous giant South American centipede (Scolopendra gigantea), measuring in at a considerable 23cm (a little over 9 inches long).
Stuart Hine, an entomologist, said it was likely the centipede hitched a ride aboard a freighter, likely with a shipment of fruit.
And I sit and wonder where she laid her sixty or so eggs and when they hatch.
(Clicking the "Continue" link below will get you a picture of one)
Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at September 2, 2005 09:58 AM
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