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Hopefully you aren't eating at the moment, because this is gross.
A Hawaiian resident snagged what's gotta be the ugliest, creepiest thing we've seen in some time. (And keep in mind that we did watch the Grammys last night.)
Retired taxidermist Clayton Cambra captured a centipede that's more than 1 foot long. And he has put it on display at his home.
Cambra spotted the 14.5-inch insect in woods behind his house and decided to capture it with a bucket, the Hawaii Tribune-Herald reported Sunday. Cambra said the venomous arthropod stood up "like a cobra" when he captured it.
"Standin' right up. It's creepy," Cambra said. "He crawled out of that bucket four or five times before I got him here."
He got the centipede inside a plastic bag and froze it in his freezer. Cambra then thawed the centipede, pinned it to a Styrofoam board and injected it with formaldehyde. "It's a monster. Even when it was dead, I was nervous touchin' it," Cambra said.
Dan Rubinoff, an entomologist and director of the University of Hawaii Insect Museum, said he thinks the bug is a Vietnamese centipede. "It's definitely got to be the largest individual I've ever seen of it," Rubinoff said. "I get 'em in my yard all the time, 6 to maybe 7 inches. Definitely, I've never seen one that big."
Rubinoff said there are other species in Southeast Asia that grow even larger. "Those are really frightening," Rubinoff said. Cambra said he rejected a $1,000 offer for the centipede.
"I don't want to sell it," Cambra said. "I want to keep it. People collect all kinds of things. I know people on the computer (who) collect these alive and keep 'em as pets."
— Associated Press
