file.newsgroup.med.59482 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] ()
Subject: Re: centi- and milli- pedes
In <[email protected]> [email protected] writes:
>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.
As a child i can remember picking up a centipede and getting a rather painful
sting, but it quickly subsided. Much less painful compared to a bee sting.
Centipedes have a poison claw (one of the front feet) to stun their prey, but
in my single experience it did not have a lot of "bite" to it.
A.