centipede
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What is one to make of Emerson’s journal entry “I feel the centipede in me” after visiting Paris’s Jardin des Plantes in 1833?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The mamma centipede may have a face like a David Cronenberg nightmare, but she's a devoted parent, curling around the wriggly bits of multi-legged spaghetti she calls her offspring to protect them.
From Salon ● May 11, 2025
"I had never seen anything like it before. After asking my co-workers, we figured out it was a house centipede," she said.
From BBC ● May 10, 2025
And despite having an elaborate, curling centipede inked on his face and neck, he’s crestfallen that Bailey would let a friend cut off her locks before the big day.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2024
They moved in rhythm, like the legs of centipede but without the actual centipede body.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
Snakes make up most of the images, but human figures, centipedes, alligators, other animals, and geometric motifs also appear.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 3, 2024
In 2022, for example, CBP found live centipedes concealed inside earphone cases.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2024
"The ancient woodlands are full of moss and lichen which light up under UV and lots of creatures too, like wood lice and centipedes all doing interesting things."
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2024
Resembling pairs of pinpricks from a human's vantage points, the features help the tiny amphibians fight each other, attract mates and crack open the shells of prey like crabs and centipedes.
From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2023
The air had a strange smell to it, too—maybe the space behind the bookcase was full of dead centipedes and millipedes and pill bugs.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Roots: cent
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