Abstract
REFERRING to Mr. Urich's letter in your issue of April 5,1 send the following remarks, which no doubt will interest some of your readers. During my eight years' residence in Guiana, I have frequently had brought to the museum, centipedes of from 5–8 inches in length, carrying their young clasped by means of their legs to all parts of the under-side of the body, though generally the young have been clustered in dense masses rather than scattered. In their very early stages the young are closely clustered, and seem quite unable to clasp their parent in turn, but later they become very restless, and will be seen moving about independently, and when clustered by the action of the parent they are incessantly changing their position in the cluster. When the young are thus bunched together, the body of the parent is coiled upon itself at that pait; and the contrast between a centipede in this position, and a scorpion carrying her young upon her back, just as a small opossum does, is a very marked one.
Article PDF
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
QUELCH, J. Centipedes and their Young. Nature 50, 124 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/050124a0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/050124a0
Comments
By submitting a comment you agree to abide by our Terms and Community Guidelines. If you find something abusive or that does not comply with our terms or guidelines please flag it as inappropriate.