Somehow this is a bug I don’t want to crush. Or, as is the case with mosquitoes, allow to merge into one giant super-monster that can be nuked once and for all. Wikipedia says its curiously anthropomorphic behavior
is highly unusual for an insect species. The males and females form some kind of a bond. The males follow the females and their activities depend on what the female is doing. During the night the couple sleeps together with three of the male’s legs wrapped around the female.And it seemed perfectly happy retiring under a bush in the middle of nowhere. (Now that they’ve been rescued, blast the rock and those waves of centipedes there “whose venom turned the arms and heads of some bivouacing climbers into touchy, watermelon-sized swellings”.)
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