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Subject: Re: centi- and milli- pedes

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (G T Clark) writes:
> [email protected] (Rebecca Snyder) writes:
> 
>>Does anyone know how posionous centipedes and millipedes are? If someone
>>was bitten, how soon would medical treatment be needed, and what would
>>be liable to happen to the person?
> 
>>(Just for clarification - I have NOT been bitten by one of these,  but my
>>house seems to be infested, and I want to know 'just in case'.)
> 
>>Rebecca
> 
> 
> 	Millipedes, I understand, are vegetarian, and therefore almost
> certainly will not bite and are not poisonous. Centipedes are
> carnivorous, and although I don't have any absolute knowledge on this, I
> would tend to think that you're in no danger from anything but a
> concerted assault by several million of them.
> 
> 			G.
Not sure of this but I think some millipedes cause a toxic reaction (sting?
So I would not assume that they are not dangerous merely on the basis of 
vegetarianism, after all wasps are vegetarian too.
dnc.