Scolopendra home - not a separate species.So affectionately known settled in the human habitation of representatives of the arthropod family skolopendrovyh.However, the appearance of this invertebrate can cause a person who saw him for the first time, a feeling of revulsion, disgust and fear.Imagine a centipede up to twenty-six centimeters (a giant centipede), all covered with mustaches, bristles, hairs, poisonous, and even has a so-called "maxilliped", which tears the food, and then sending it into the mouth.About
poisonous centipedes go to various rumors.Some believe that talking about their deadly poisonous to humans is not true, the other - that the bite of some species of centipedes still deadly to humans.But, be that as it may, these arthropods often live in a person's home (especially in the tropics and the southern part of the temperate zone), and a smart host never drove them out of the house, preferring to endure some inconvenience because of their presence ... Why?
The answer to this question is simple.Scolopendra home, being a predator, smartly hunts various animals.No, she did not click on the teeth, but many invertebrates enemies of man is even in the teeth (and taste).The diet includes skolopendr cockroaches, bedbugs, spiders, fleas, moths, and other equally unpleasant for the human inhabitants of the home.Staying in a house centipede in subfield digs tunnels that are both her home.With the person skolopendry not conflict, indifferent to human food and can bite only in self-defense.And not always they can bite through human skin.And even if this happens, it will be a pain as from a bee sting, no more.
In the area of ​​distribution skolopendr Russia - the North Caucasus, Rostov, Volgograd, Astrakhan and Orenburg regions.To the north, they are not found.Inhabited in southern Russia centipede home, rarely longer than six to eight centimeters.
If centipede defensively bitten people (people-they do not attack - no need), then bite the swelling is formed, which in most cases takes a couple of hours.If a large centipede, the pain (gradually decaying) can last up to a day and a half.Then pass unnoticed.No more hassles bite skolopendry (our, Russian) does not deliver.
There is one documented case in which the bite of a giant tropical Scolopendra killed a boy of seven.But it is not in Russia and in the Philippine jungle.And then, podospey medical care in time of death could have been avoided.But the centipede home, which is found on the territory of Russia, for a man is not dangerous.On the contrary, these are very beneficial arthropods can greatly facilitate the life of man.It is a pity that many owners of private homes do not get it and destroy them.Well, do not blame they that took after such unpleasant ... (from the point of view of a person).In short, the centipede in the house - to prosperity.What is not new sign?
