Centipedes that could be in a SiFi movie
Woody on February 26, 2010 in Jungle, Vietnam, War Buddies No Comments »On occasion we would encounter giant centipedes when we were on missions in the jungle. I had never seen an insect so big in all my life. They weren’t hard to miss because of their size. It’s colors were a brownish red, purple and dark yellow and it’s body and legs had a soft plastic like sheen. I would say that the ones we saw were a good six inches long and they looked like something out of a science fiction movie.
One morning we were breaking camp and getting ready to move out. One of the guys in my squad was putting on his fatigue top, when all of a sudden he let out a yell and threw his it off. He explained that something had bit or stung him on the arm. Someone else picked up his fatigue and started shaking it. Out fell one of those huge centipedes and everybody watched it crawl away. Anyway, the guy that was bitten by it was alright, the centipedes were not poisonous. Needless to say we all started checking before we put any of our clothing back on. Click the link below to see a picture of a giant Vietnamese centipede that looks very much like the ones we saw in the jungle. http://www.swiftinverts.com/pix/Vietnamesecentipede1.jpg
