Bark Centipede Carrying Her Eggs
Mar 21, 2019 14:30:59 #
This is my Bark Centipede which is just about 2-inches long and if you look closely at her rear you will see that she is carrying her egg sacks.
Based on what I have read about them they have a fang that can inject venom into their prey and they mostly hunt at night and can live as long as five years. I understand that they are not poisonous to humans although their bite can be quite painful.
As always, thanks in advance to all that view and your comments, suggestions and critique are highly appreciated.
Based on what I have read about them they have a fang that can inject venom into their prey and they mostly hunt at night and can live as long as five years. I understand that they are not poisonous to humans although their bite can be quite painful.
As always, thanks in advance to all that view and your comments, suggestions and critique are highly appreciated.
Mar 21, 2019 14:40:25 #
I have never seen that before! Very cool. I had seen pictures where they would nestle down somewhere and sit, curled around their eggs. But this way they can move around and even hunt!
That is way cool!
That is way cool!
Mar 21, 2019 15:16:12 #
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Loc: NJ
Been watching you here for a while growing in your experimentation...
Thank you for sharing your ever widening technique and images and the wonderous beauty of the tiny.
SMALL SCALE AWESOME!
Thank you for sharing your ever widening technique and images and the wonderous beauty of the tiny.
SMALL SCALE AWESOME!
Mar 21, 2019 16:09:02 #
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Mar 21, 2019 16:20:44 #
Thank you for the kind remarks. I retired a year ago and now at 70-years old macro photography has given me something to fill my time and give me purpose and a challenge. I try to shoot something everyday, be it indoors or out, with experimenting and tweaking striving to become better and hunting for subjects helps fuel the passion.
Mar 21, 2019 18:06:48 #
Exceptionally well lighted, on a natural & interesting background. Beautiful DoF.
NatGeo worthy!
NatGeo worthy!
Mar 21, 2019 18:24:25 #
Mar 21, 2019 18:33:58 #
Thanks ever so much. I staged the image with a piece of the limb that I found it under which was quite rotted. I diffused two IKEA JANSJÖ desk work lights and experimented with distance and positioning to where I thought it looked best after several test shots.
I took this image with a Laowa 60mm f-2.8 Super Macro at about 1.25:1 magnification due to the size of the subject. Manual mode, mirror up, viewfinder closed, f-5.6, 1/20th sec., constant lighting.
I took this image with a Laowa 60mm f-2.8 Super Macro at about 1.25:1 magnification due to the size of the subject. Manual mode, mirror up, viewfinder closed, f-5.6, 1/20th sec., constant lighting.
Mar 21, 2019 18:48:02 #
Mar 21, 2019 20:03:29 #
As you well know, I follow your posts here. This is your best effort to date. There is no flaw in this photo. A 300 bowling game, an 18 golf score. You get the idea.
And you read not poisonous to humans but bite painful. Read that as poisonous. Severity is the key.
Now, if I may, a bit on centipedes. Subject to correction.
From what I have seen, and read,the females of a few take care of eggs and young until young disperse, (a few days). They create a chamber in which to do this. They then lay eggs and tend them till young disperse.
BUT they do not create an egg case, or ootheca, so do not carry eggs.
Nor do they have sexual encounter with a male EXCEPT with a sperm packet he leaves. She picks this up with special organs and may be seen with it prior to insertion.
So I am saying that this could be a female, but well may be a male with sperm packet. Whew.
Believe me, I do not make this stuff up. But this answers some why's posed about not seeing females with eggs and on the move, only in repose, her coiled around the eggs.
Good to see you, Gary.
Bill
And you read not poisonous to humans but bite painful. Read that as poisonous. Severity is the key.
Now, if I may, a bit on centipedes. Subject to correction.
From what I have seen, and read,the females of a few take care of eggs and young until young disperse, (a few days). They create a chamber in which to do this. They then lay eggs and tend them till young disperse.
BUT they do not create an egg case, or ootheca, so do not carry eggs.
Nor do they have sexual encounter with a male EXCEPT with a sperm packet he leaves. She picks this up with special organs and may be seen with it prior to insertion.
So I am saying that this could be a female, but well may be a male with sperm packet. Whew.
Believe me, I do not make this stuff up. But this answers some why's posed about not seeing females with eggs and on the move, only in repose, her coiled around the eggs.
Good to see you, Gary.
Bill
Mar 21, 2019 20:21:12 #
Bill may be right. I was wondering earlier that if its eggs, then maybe she would settle in curled around them later. But there should be more eggs, so that makes less sense.
I do like mysteries. While they last.
I do like mysteries. While they last.
Mar 21, 2019 20:47:35 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
Bill may be right. I was wondering earlier that if its eggs, then maybe she would settle in curled around them later. But there should be more eggs, so that makes less sense.
I do like mysteries. While they last.
I do like mysteries. While they last.
Thank you. Having read Rex Stout, Hammett,Gardner,Sherlock and others, I settled For Mother Nature. I do still like Nero Wolfe, tho.
Bill
Mar 21, 2019 23:38:17 #
Bill, thanks for helping with my continuing education for I am truly a novice in this regard with a thirst to learn. Being naive I made an assumption that the white sacks it is carrying were eggs and now I know that it could be a male ready to breed which to me is even more fascinating.
Mar 22, 2019 05:24:51 #
Super image, I didn't know about the egg protection situation either.
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