What food does centipede eat?

Centipede is a typical carnivore, fierce in sex, with a wide range of food, especially fond of eating insects. When food is scarce in early spring, you can also eat a small amount of grass and moss buds.

Centipede is afraid of the sun. It doesn't sleep during the day and comes out at night. It likes to live in a dark, warm, rain-proof and ventilated place. Scolopes likes to live in hilly areas and sandy land. During the day, they often lurk in the cracks of masonry, under the roots of walls, and in the dark corners of piles of leaves, weeds and rotten wood. At night, they come out to feed on caterpillars, spiders and cockroaches. Generally, when the weather turns cold in May 438+1October in June, they dig holes into the soil on the hillside facing the sun in the lee, and lurk in the soil about 12cm deep from the ground. After the winter solstice (early March), as the weather gets warmer, they start to feed again.

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clinical picture

Small centipede bites, only local redness and pain, tropical centipede bites, can cause lymphangitis and tissue necrosis, and sometimes the whole limb appears epilepsy. Some people may have headache, fever, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, and even nausea, convulsions, coma and other systemic symptoms. If you are bitten by a centipede with red head, black body and yellow feet in the Yangtze River valley, you will soon have a sharp pain. Generally, severe pain will begin in the elbow joint within 2 hours, dull pain in the armpit within 3 hours and chest within 4 to 5 hours, but don't worry, it won't cause fatal danger. After 4 days, the symptoms gradually disappeared.

Emergency treatment

Immediately after the centipede bites, wash the wound with soapy water, apply local cold compress or wet compress to the wound, or mash Houttuynia cordata and Taraxacum for external application. People with systemic symptoms should go to the hospital for treatment immediately.

2 ~ 3 cm above the injured limb, tie it tightly with cloth tape, and relax every 15 minutes 1 ~ 2 minutes. You can use ice around the wound, cut the skin of the wound, suck out the venom with an aspirator or cupping, and wash the wound with potassium permanganate solution and limewater. Those with severe symptoms should go to the hospital for treatment.

References:

The habits of centipedes-Baidu Encyclopedia