A Creepy Crawly Came A-callin' (not for the faint of heart...)

I was on the patio a few weeks back and noticed this guy had come to visit. We stuck a pot over him and I spent a considerable amount of research time trying to confirm whether he was venomous.

I eventually identified him as Thereuopoda Clunifera (or 'a centipede' in English).

The weird thing about this part of the world are that there is such diversity of wildlife that even something this remarkable is barely catalogued. In fact there are so many different forms of wildlife that many of them haven't even been catalogued. A recent trip to Cape York (the mostly-unpeopled area North of us) discovered over 50 previously unknown species of spider (see here for more).

(with perspective)

If you want a more up close and personal experience, here is a video...

Unfortunately, we left him under the punnet while we went to do other things, and the sun moved round the house - and he ended up rather the worse for the experience 😦