Centipedes are one of the traditional "five poisons" (snakes, scorpions, centipedes, centipedes, spiders), and we can often see them in our daily lives.
Once the centipede is spotted, it usually breaks out in a cold sweat, not only because of the poison it is born with, but also because of its amazing appearance.
But do you really know centipedes?
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" data-track="4" > centipedes and millipedes</h1>
Centipede: Scientific name centipede, also known as Tianlong, Hundred Feet, Wu Gong. It belongs to the phylum arthropods, polypods, labialpods, centipede species.
centipede
Millipede: Scientific name Malu, also known as millipede, millipede, scale rod worm. It belongs to the phylum arthropods, polypod subphylum, Ploides, and equina.
diplopod
Centipedes, with long whip-like antennae on the head, an oral cavity consisting of a pair of large jaws and two pairs of small jaws, and a pair of polyocular eyes. The body is long and flattened, with a golden head, a dark green back, and a yellowish brown belly. The trunk part has 21 segments, each segment has a pair of feet, the first pair of feet form a hook, poisonous glands, stinging, and the last pair extends backwards into a tail.
Millipedes, the body size is round and long, the body segments are healed in two pairs, except for the head node, there is no foot, the 3 individual nodes after the head node have a foot and an external section, and the other body segments have 2 pairs per section, and the total number of feet can be as many as 200 pairs.
Don't dare to get close enough to distinguish carefully?
The simplest centipede body is generally flattened, and the millipede body is rounded.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" data-track="11" > the species and distribution of centipedes</h1>
There are many kinds of centipede resources in China, and the distribution is relatively wide, the main species are sea buckthorn centipede, distributed in Shaanxi, Sichuan, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou and other southern provinces; multi-spined centipedes are distributed in Guangxi, Hubei, Zhejiang, Hainan, Yunnan, Sichuan; Mojiang centipedes and black-headed centipedes are mainly distributed in Yunnan; Ha's centipedes are distributed in Guangxi, Yunnan and Hainan.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" data-track="13" > centipedes and our lives</h1>
Centipedes prefer to live in hilly and sandy land areas, and during the day they often lurk in masonry crevices, corner corners and dark corners of piles of leaves, weeds and rotten wood, and come out at night. Centipedes are typical carnivores, fierce, a wide range of food, especially like to eat insects, hunting for green insects, spiders, cockroaches and so on. In early spring when food is scarce, a small amount of grass and moss buds can also be eaten.
The Chinese medicine centipede was first published in the Shennong Materia Medica, which has the functions of soothing wind and suppressing spasms, relieving pain, and attacking poison and scattering knots. Centipede is a commonly used medicinal herb, warm, spicy and poisonous. It has the functions of soothing wind and suppressing spasms, attacking poison and scattering knots, and relieving pain. It is used for pediatric convulsions, convulsions and spasms, stroke mouth and crooked eyes, hemiplegia, tetanus, rheumatism, sores, fistulas, venomous snake bites.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="04" data-track="16" > centipede prevention</h1>
As one of the "five poisons", centipedes carry high poison in their bodies and can also sting people when attacked. In the sting area, it can cause redness, swelling and burning pain, but the systemic reaction is relatively mild, and chills, fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, pulse speed, slurry and convulsions can occur, and in severe cases, it may even lead to death. There are tens of thousands of cases of centipede bites in the country.
When playing outdoors, once you encounter a centipede, it is best not to get close, let alone catch it, so as not to be bitten by the centipede. If you find a centipede at home, you have to pay attention, the centipede is a social animal, come to one, will come the second, the third, endless also, this is the use of the method of killing centipedes is definitely not a cure for the symptoms.
To eliminate centipedes, it is first necessary to ensure environmental hygiene, timely cleaning, including toilets and sewers, garbage should be cleaned up in time, and no reason to patronize centipedes must be given;
Second, keep the room ventilated and dry, because centipedes prefer a humid environment;
Finally, you can sprinkle the room youbao green bottle (sold on Taobao) at the door, window and place where you may climb into the centipede, a safe new type of centipede killing, to prevent centipede powder.
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