{"id":41275,"date":"2024-08-22T13:23:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T11:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a80e0a4a-3ffa-4cd1-abdf-46cac4340c63"},"modified":"2024-08-22T14:27:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T12:27:28","slug":"whats-the-biggest-centipede-in-the-world-meet-the-stuff-of-nightmares-venomous-enough-to-kill-a-bat-and-possibly-a-small-child","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/rss_feed\/whats-the-biggest-centipede-in-the-world-meet-the-stuff-of-nightmares-venomous-enough-to-kill-a-bat-and-possibly-a-small-child\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the biggest centipede in the world? Meet the stuff of nightmares, venomous enough to kill a bat &#8211; and possibly a small child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\">Meet the biggest &#8211; and most venomous &#8211; centipede in the world <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By <\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Thursday, 22 August 2024 at 11:23 AM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><strong>The biggest centipede in the world is the aptly named Amazonian giant centipede,\u00a0 measuring up to an incredible foot long (30cm or 12 inches) or more.<\/strong><\/p><p>The Amazonian giant centipede is made up of 27 segments, with 21 pairs of legs &#8211; the first pair of which delivers the deadly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/poisons-vs-venom-vs-toxin\">venom<\/a> to its victims.<\/p><p>As it&#8217;s name suggests it lives in Amazon &#8211; but is also found in other parts of South America and the<strong> <\/strong>south Caribbean.<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/insects-invertebrates\/centipedes-vs-millipedes\">Centipedes vs millipedes: what&#8217;s the difference?<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/insects-invertebrates\/are-centipedes-venomous\">Are centipedes venomous?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p\/><figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/62\/2024\/08\/GettyImages-1393157455.mp4\"\/><\/figure><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-how-venomous-is-the-amazonian-giant-centipede\"><strong>How venomous is the<\/strong> <strong>Amazonian giant centipede<\/strong>?<\/h2><p>This centipede packs quite a punch. Armed with a powerful venom, the giant centipede preys on a variety of other animals, including other invertebrates and small vertebrates. <\/p><p>One study examined its predation on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/mammals\/bat-facts\">bats<\/a>, suggesting that it could hang from a cave ceiling and inject its venom into a bat. Although the measured bat wasn\u2019t quite twice its weight, it was a close thing \u2013 and this centipede has separately caused the death of a human child, and eaten flesh from a human corpse.\u00a0<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/insects-invertebrates\/largest-insects-in-the-world\">Biggest insects in the world, from a 60cm-long stick insect to a hefty 100g beetle larva<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/insects-invertebrates\/fastest-insect\">What&#8217;s the fastest insect? Meet the insect that truly scampers along<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/insects-invertebrates\/deadliest-insects\">Meet the deadliest insects and most dangerous insects to humans<\/a><\/li><\/ul><hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/><p>Top image by Tod Baker from Tianjin, China, CC BY-SA 2.0 <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\">https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the biggest &#8211; and most venomous &#8211; centipede in the world <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":41276,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/08\/whats-the-biggest-centipede-in-the-world-meet-the-stuff-of-nightmares-venomous-enough-to-kill-a-bat-and-possibly-a-small-child.jpg",800,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/08\/whats-the-biggest-centipede-in-the-world-meet-the-stuff-of-nightmares-venomous-enough-to-kill-a-bat-and-possibly-a-small-child-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/08\/whats-the-biggest-centipede-in-the-world-meet-the-stuff-of-nightmares-venomous-enough-to-kill-a-bat-and-possibly-a-small-child-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/08\/whats-the-biggest-centipede-in-the-world-meet-the-stuff-of-nightmares-venomous-enough-to-kill-a-bat-and-possibly-a-small-child-768x576.jpg",768,576,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/08\/whats-the-biggest-centipede-in-the-world-meet-the-stuff-of-nightmares-venomous-enough-to-kill-a-bat-and-possibly-a-small-child.jpg",800,600,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/08\/whats-the-biggest-centipede-in-the-world-meet-the-stuff-of-nightmares-venomous-enough-to-kill-a-bat-and-possibly-a-small-child.jpg",800,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2024\/08\/whats-the-biggest-centipede-in-the-world-meet-the-stuff-of-nightmares-venomous-enough-to-kill-a-bat-and-possibly-a-small-child.jpg",800,600,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Meet the biggest - and most venomous - centipede in the world","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/41275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}