When Centipedes Escape - Young centipedes and their PSYCHO mother! Ethmostigmus rubripes rehousing

[@The_Room_Of_Arachnids]

Watching you threaten centipedes with calling their mother is extremely entertaining.

[@BugsandBiology]

Doesn't help that their mother is worse than all of them combined haha

[@nicholascohen7659]

This video was hilarious. Not so much for you, but I was having a great time watching.

[@BugsandBiology]

Certainly funny in hindsight. Can't say I laughed too much at the time...

[@nonrecurrent7819]

This is why I keep millipedes😭

[@thunderfox53]

This channel is way to under rated, but it has at least above 100k sub potential. Love your videos 👍

[@BugsandBiology]

Cheers mate, means a lot to hear that. Can only hope I continue growing!

[@Mehrunes86]

@@BugsandBiology I'll recommend The Spiffing Brit and his video about community polls👍

[@EternaMidnight]

This reminded me of that saying "as difficult as herding cats"... 😆

[@griffinc3263]

Just realised that you have the exact same containers that I like to keep my funnelwebs in from the Reject Store!

[@mcleodclan]

Haha boisterous little pups!!

[@BugsandBiology]

Cute in hindsight, not so much at the time haha

[@colewilliams6623]

I must say, good Sir, that your channel is amazing! I always loved the animals most despised, so seeing this makes me VERY happy! Subbed!

[@BugsandBiology]

Loving the unloved animals is one of the main reasons this channel exists. Thanks for subscribing!

[@tomsqueen9524]

Funny how he gets on other ppl for not providing hiding spaces for centipedes yet… moss and substrate is just the same. No cork, wood nothing to hide under but substrate.

[@BugsandBiology]

Peat/sand is a substrate that retains moisture and is firm enough to hold a burrow. Meanwhile Exotics Lair was keeping them on what were essentially bark chips.

[@nikkic0509]

😂😂😂 I think they’re just amazing, and that was so funny...sorry.

[@BugsandBiology]

Glad I can sit back and laugh at it now. Wasn't laughing much at the time...

[@nikkic0509]

Lair of Centipedes All of them did need a time out. I felt bad they gave you such a hard time, but I couldn’t help but laugh. You and your centipedes need your own show on the Discovery channel. You’ve got a great speaking voice...very charismatic.

[@PeppersnGlowworms]

-"That's great, you just described a species new to science! What would you like to call it?" - "Ephippitytha trigintiduoguttata..." - "Well, okay then. I'll be right of to have it registered!" ... - No, waiet! Call an ambibuleleance, I jam havining a stronk!"

[@PeppersnGlowworms]

So apparently it was originally described as Phaneroptera trigintiduoguttata by Serville in 1838. I hope Servile did not actually have a stroke.

[@modded_vengeance1869]

I don't abnormally mind other insects but something about centipedes and millepedes makes me want to throw up

[@biotopeanimal5196]

Cool to watch the Centipedes

[@justtime6736]

2:98 "Seems pretty cal- NEVERMIND NEVERMIND!"

[@justtime6736]

8:29 GO BACK THE WAY YOU CAME FROM plais???

[@justtime6736]

9:44 rofl what happened?????

[@BugsandBiology]

Things always seem to go wrong whenever I say that. Especially when centipedes are involved.

[@darksharkstudios15]

Which gender of Centipedes last longer? Male or female?

[@BugsandBiology]

Not sure but there doesn't appear to be any major disparity in lifespan between sexes.

[@Blackdragon99omfg]

What size enclosure do you have for her? She’s, what, 17cm?

[@BugsandBiology]

About 30x20cm. Will likely rehouse her soon as she put on a lot of size in a recent molt. She's about 16cm now.

[@StopStealingMyNameTrolls]

Well trigintiduoguttata literally means 32 spotted in Latin. :D

[@BugsandBiology]

Yeah that's what I suspected. I never learned Latin, but I noticed "tri" (three), "duo" (two) and "guttata" which I belive refers to spots.

[@danielpetrucci8952]

Do you have any Scorpions that you keep?

[@BugsandBiology]

I have 10 third instar Urodacus elongatus babies. Cool scorpions, but they grow ridiculously slowly.

[@danielpetrucci8952]

@@BugsandBiology oh true that thanks for the reply 😃

[@griffinc3263]

Just got tagged on the finger by my R.nuda. While it was only a couple cm, it still feels worse than a green head ant and while it isn't that bad, it certainly gives you respect for this species

[@BugsandBiology]

Got tagged by a 8cm Rhysida nuda a while ago. Nothing unbearable, but worse than I'd expect from a pede that size.

[@carlirvinenicolas7874]

Are there any relations between you and Exotic Lair? Cousins? Distant Relatives?

[@BugsandBiology]

Nah, and our names are a coincidence. When I started my channel, Exotics Lair was called Hyraxuz or something like that, and had about 5k subs.

[@carlirvinenicolas7874]

@@BugsandBiology Neat lore.

[@alexisrivas307]

I noticed that your tool of choice during this process was your trusty paint brush. Is the reason for using the brush instead of tweezers to not stress them more? The paint brush keeps them at a distance. If the babes decide to corroperate.

[@BugsandBiology]

For pedes that size, metal tongs can be potentially dangerous as they can crush them. Also the cold surface of metal seems to freak pedes out.

[@StopStealingMyNameTrolls]

By the way you did not let poor poor mommy centipede raise her children - you took them away from her after a short while after they were born - so she had no chance to teach them some proper manners.... ;)

[@griffinc3263]

If you're getting interested in katydid, you should check out the Austrosalomona katydids. Minibeast Wildlife should have some in Spring. They are also going to breed the red jawed wishbone in the future.

[@BugsandBiology]

Those katydids sure look cool. Pity Minibeast Wildlife is so expensive.

[@griffinc3263]

@@BugsandBiology I think it's because all of their stock is captive bred (except for Heteropoda jugulans) and I think it's good to support those businesses every so often

[@BugsandBiology]

Yeah true. Also where does it say they have Austrosalomona? Can't see them on the breeding room page.

[@griffinc3263]

@@BugsandBiology I bought a pair from them in 2019. They seem to have quite a few of them that aren't listed in the breeding room

[@BugsandBiology]

I see. Did they breed for you?

[@griffinc3263]

Does it look like Gurthang will be having any more offspring in the future? Would love to have one!

[@BugsandBiology]

She's had three clutches in a row, so I see no reason for her not to lay again next year. In the meantime I will have tigers from north Queensland available very soon.

[@StopStealingMyNameTrolls]

When you are doing a re-housing why don't you just poor the entire content of the small container over into the bigger container? As a burrower species it's not that they would be crushed by the substrate or that they couldn't dig themselves a tunnel back to the surface. It's not worth the risk that they flee or eventually even bite you. I am just curious why take the risk at all if not necessary. :D

[@StopStealingMyNameTrolls]

Also I really wish somebody could find a reliable method to define the sex/gender of each centipede individually... Cause as far as I know they are a bit like most skink species, that means that we still have no reliable and fast techniques to find out which animal is male and which one is a female.

[@griffinc3263]

Yeah, with most species you have to knock them out and squeeze them... I probably won't have the guts to do that on my massive rubripes. Although with some species, such as Scolopendra morsitans, the males have ridges on their terminal legs.

[@darksharkstudios15]

I don't mind Centipedes but I CAN'T STAND ROACHES!

[@DevaPein]

btw love your voice. super hot

[@darksharkstudios15]

Your channel is still pretty small probably not as small as it was before

[@BugsandBiology]

By small I meant about 10 subscribers

[@darksharkstudios15]

@@BugsandBiology well your channel is still pretty small not to be mean or anything....

[@BugsandBiology]

Yeah I know, but compared to 10 subscribers it isn't. It's all about perspective.

[@darksharkstudios15]

@@BugsandBiology well uh your not wrong.

[@cassieclover99]

ummmm I think it's pretty obvious what he meant lol plus in the grand scheme of KZbin, 3,000 subscribers are not a lot but for an individual, that is a really huge number and an amazing achievement.

[@sarico7827]

I mean come on be a normal animal will you XD.

[@kevinpoe8137]

If thought that name was hard to pronounce try this, myxococcus llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllnantysiliogogogochensis, btw that’s the name of a bacteria found in Wales

[@BugsandBiology]

That is... Interesting...

[@LAsilversurfer]

I never see my pede poop.....

[@BugsandBiology]

It's not easy to notice.