{"id":638,"date":"2011-08-25T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/08\/florida-discoveries-17-narceus-americanus.html"},"modified":"2011-08-25T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T22:17:00","slug":"florida-discoveries-17-narceus-americanus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/08\/florida-discoveries-17-narceus-americanus\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Discoveries 17: Narceus Americanus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ready to be grossed out?<\/p>\n

This morning I went to the backyard to cover our grill (I forgot to cover it last night) and when I picked up the cover, this thing fell out and started walking across our patio:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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At about 4″ long, you can’t just ignore this thing!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Okay, are you done screaming and climbing up to the highest point in the room?<\/p>\n

These things are all over our backyard here.  Meet the Narceus americanus<\/i>, or the North American millepede<\/a>.  This thing is BIG!  And he’s FAST.  And after I finished doing the heebie-jeebie dance about it, I ran inside to get my camera.  It was a race to get some pictures before he made it to the grass and burrowed into the soil.<\/p>\n

Don’t touch this millipede, it will exude some sort of irritant as a defensive mechanism.<\/p>\n

Enjoy some more pictures!  I promise something MUCH happier and prettier tomorrow!<\/p>\n

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I took this picture for a size comparison.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ready to be grossed out? This morning I went to the backyard to cover our grill (I forgot to cover it last night) and when I picked up the cover, this thing fell out and started walking across our patio: At about 4″ long, you can’t just ignore this thing! Okay, are you done screaming … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[128,626],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fauna","tag-florida-discoveries"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t