Welcome to the Jungle
I’ve been playing the roll of gardener for the past week or two, since the guys are concentrating on the inside of the house. As I’ve been watering, weeding and planting, (I’ll leave the pica pica to Stefan 
…) I’ve been getting ideas for how we are going to lay out the garden(s) and outside living areas. There is a HUGE mango tree near the back of the house that I want to put a swing in and I got the idea that I wanted to clear out an area under the tree for a table and chairs as well. So, I raked out under the tree, pulled the weeds and was prepping to dig out a decent sized tree to transplant into the front yard. I grabbed the pickaxe and round nose shovel and went to work.
On my first swing of the pickaxe, I hit the BIGGEST centipede I have ever seen. Lucky for me, I chopped it in half, otherwise I could have been in big trouble. I went up to the house and grabbed my camera, but the pictures came out too dark, so I photoshopped this reenactment for you…
Behold! Summer the giant centipede slayer!!!
Seriously, though, the centipede I came across under the mango tree was pretty close in size to the one pictured above. Scary! It makes me a little nervous having the dogs running around, being as a centipede that size could easily kill a dog. I’m going to have to fashion some sort of centipede-proof doggy boots for Kuta and Monkey…
November 14th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Wow Summer, your hands have really swollen in that humidity and heat, and the t-shirt… Are you sure you still want to call it vicious style?
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November 14th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Van – Stefan didn’t tell you I gained 100lbs and started dressing like a guy?! I figured that would have come up in casual conversation…;)
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November 15th, 2007 at 11:25 am
Man hands! That is a very funny picture!
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November 16th, 2007 at 9:52 am
The dogs somehow know how to stay away from the centipedes, centipedes love rugs and mattresses-so check frequently for their nests!
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June 4th, 2010 at 4:27 am
help! with all the rain and humidity we’ve been having i found an alacran as they call it here in puerto rico or giant centipede in my livingroom! how do we kill them, how do we get them to stay outside and how do we kill them out there?! i have 13 rescues and recently had to take one to the vet because he had been bitten by something and now i know what, help?!
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September 19th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
I lived in Punta Santiago, PR for 6 yrs.; one of the centipedes got my foot when I was walking barefoot in my backyard in some dry leaves under a mango tree; I screamed, & screamed & well, hubby threw me into the car & hightailed it to Roosy Roads leaving our 4 young children in the back yard at the mercy of our neighbors. Thot I’d die, but I lived, and had fang marks & a limp for months; dr. said the 2 marks indicated the largest he’d ever seen; our various neighbors had similar tales. Makes my foot ache again…
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