I have mentioned that creatures are harder to come by in the winter months. My first solution was to LOOK TO THE TREES for winged wildlife that stays in the frozen north year round. But there is another way. A tenacious naturalist may want to do a little digging to find new animal friends UNDERGROUND. As you can see from this picture there are some disgusting forms of insect wildlife that live out their tortured and corrupt existence year round underneath logs and stones. Even in the coldest of January weather I came across this slimy little millipede. He was only about an inch long, nothing like the UNGODLY MONSTER PEDE I found in Texas, but he still gets points for being gross and toughing it out through the cold!
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There is (gross) life underground
I have mentioned that creatures are harder to come by in the winter months. My first solution was to LOOK TO THE TREES for winged wildlife that stays in the frozen north year round. But there is another way. A tenacious naturalist may want to do a little digging to find new animal friends UNDERGROUND. As you can see from this picture there are some disgusting forms of insect wildlife that live out their tortured and corrupt existence year round underneath logs and stones. Even in the coldest of January weather I came across this slimy little millipede. He was only about an inch long, nothing like the UNGODLY MONSTER PEDE I found in Texas, but he still gets points for being gross and toughing it out through the cold!
A Weaker Pede!
Let me take you back to a simpler era in a place called "Central Texas." Long time viewers will remember that I once took a trip to Big Bend National Park in West Texas. There I encountered the worlds BIGGEST PEDES! Here is a picture of a far weaker pede taken in Lost Pines Central Texas. It is weaker, but a large one nonetheless. It is my hope that these photos will add to our understanding of Millipedes and their ways. One thing I think it has already proven is that they are far less creepy than Centipedes!
A Frightful Symmetry
Apparently, There is no God...That was my first reaction when I saw this thing slithering towards me in a hunting blind at Ink's Lake State Park.
This is from the University of
“According to one story cited by Dr. Baerg: An officer in the Confederate Army, while sleeping in his tent, was suddenly aroused by the creepy feeling of a large centipede crawling across his chest. A number of spots of deep red, forming a broad streak, indicated the anthropod’s passage across the man’s chest and abdomen. Violent pain and convulsions soon set in, accompanied by excessive swelling in the bitten area. The victim fought with death for two days and then succumbed. The agony suffered by the bitten officer was described by an eyewitness as the most frightful he had ever observed. The famed arthropod scientist J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson once explained that “centipedes seem to exert a weird fascination on the morbid appetites of the hysterical and insane.”
But what frightful symmetry indeed!
Day of the "Pedes"
This is a pretty long millipede I met. He and all his buddies were trying to migrate across a highway I was driving on. Strangely enough, I ended up not hitting a single "pede" but I did mow down a road runner. meep meep!
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