House centipedes typically have 15 legs and can travel 1.3 feet-per-second, which explains why catching one of these centipedes in house is nearly impossible.

The house centipede’s legs get progressively longer toward the rear, which creates its characteristic outline and keeps them from getting tangled when they are running fast. And they can run fast — ...

My colleagues and I were walking along Cary Street in Shockoe Bottom when our attention was drawn to a slender, striped body no more than 1½ inches long.

Centipede: The usual pest species encountered by humans is the house centipede which is grayish yellow and has 15 pairs of legs as an adult. They have poison jaws which they use to inject venom ...

But the house centipede still has legs to spare. And it’s found some novel ways to put them to work. Those extra-EXTRA long ones at the very end sort of look like antennae, don’t they?

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