With the strengthening of human environmental awareness, the city we live in has gradually begun to green. By the summer, many friends in the city have found that the cicadas are singing more and more, and they can see more and more birds and butterflies appearing around us. All this means that the urban ecosystem is slowly being restored, and in the future we will see more and more animals appear in the city. However, you may not know that because of the restoration of ecosystems, some poisonous animals have also appeared around us, such as centipedes.
Recently, a giant red-headed centipede has appeared in the courtyards of some homes in the southern United States and northern Mexico. It has at least 20 yellow legs, a huge red head and highly poisonous fangs. When a family member posted a photo of the centipede to social networks, it triggered a heated discussion among netizens, all of whom thought that it would pose a threat to our lives. In this regard, the US Department of Wildlife has judged based on the photos provided by netizens, who believe that this centipede "giant centipede" is a terrible centipede with high poison. Its main diet is rats, snakes, lizards, toads and other small vertebrates. When it is preying, it bites its prey with its fangs, and venom is injected into the prey along the fangs, and the prey is paralyzed and incapacitated. At this time, the giant centipede is moving its prey elsewhere to eat. But what puzzles experts is that giant centipedes usually like to live under rocks or under leaves, rarely appear in places where people live, and giant centipedes usually feed on moths and do not attack other prey at will.
Experts remind families who have found this centipede to be careful not to be bitten when walking or playing in their yards. Once bitten, it can cause death! According to Dr. Hutchins of the Arthropod Museum, in previous studies, we found that skin necrosis, dizziness, nausea, headaches and other symptoms after being bitten by a giant centipede, but in the latest report, unexpected new symptoms appeared, namely muscle tissue damage, kidney failure and myocardial infarction. A healthy 20-year-old young man developed an acute myocardial infarction after being bitten by a giant centipede. Because of the long time it takes to get medical attention, it is difficult for experts to determine whether there are other factors that have triggered its acute myocardial infarction.
Dr. Hutchins reminds us that while the centipede does not actively attack us, it is possible that we have inadvertently invaded its territory or made it feel threatened. In such a case, it will take the initiative to attack us, so we should pay attention to whether there is a presence around us in ordinary life, once found, please call the relevant distress phone, let the professionals help you deal with it, and never try to get close to it or kill it yourself.
The change in the ecological environment has indeed brought us a lot of benefits, but cases like giant centipedes will certainly be seen in the future, so it is necessary for us to come up with a series of solutions to prevent these poisons from hurting people. The best way to do this for now is to use biological means — to cut off its food chain, that is, to kill moths, rats, and toads in the courtyard. In this way, the giant centipede will naturally leave after losing its living environment, so that your courtyard can be safe again. (Science Fiction Galaxy Constantine/Text)
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