one of the hazards of Hawaii

[Sasquatch Jim]

 Congress should make possession of venom by bugs illegal.
 Penalty would be capital punishment.

[Tom]

Makes no difference where you live.  Nature will balance it out with something.     You pick a location and be aware of what's out there.  After all we're the invaders and nature is adjusting to us.  Uhh......how's that for a philosophical view??? 

[oldbike54]

Makes no difference where you live.  Nature will balance it out with something.     You pick a location and be aware of what's out there.  After all we're the invaders and nature is adjusting to us.  Uhh......how's that for a philosophical view??? 

  Like right now we are under invasion by those little tiny ants , millions of them , everywhere, going about there industrious lives . Oh well , better our little guys than those Crazy Rasberry Ants or Fire Ants like they have in Texas . Did I mention the Red Wasps , aggressive ferocious nasty things , or the mosquitoes , billions of 'em , all bent on making my life unpleasant  At least we aren't infested with folks from up North now that the oil bidness is bust 

 Dusty

[charlie b]

But I was referring to centipedes, not scorpions.

So, since centipedes do not have 6 legs are they insects?  ;)

Really doesn't matter to me.  They are all creepy, crawly or creepy, flying things that bite/sting and if they are near me or in the house I will kill them :)

[Tom]

 :1: big time.

[Sasquatch Jim]

  Well sitting on my couch watching TV when I realized just how much worse my experience could have been.
 On TV was a program titled, " Sex sent me to the E.R.
 On came an episode where a young couple visiting Hawaii had been making whoopie out of doors when the girl  grabbed her crotch and screamed something stung me.  It got her where it wasn't one thing or the other.
 So throwing on their clothes they raced to the ER.  While waiting miserably for their turn, The guy screamed and began shucking his pants.  As his skivies dropped everyone in the waiting room screamed and retreated from him.  That's when the centipede was seen stinging him where his digeri doo was connected to his scrote.
 The dr. looked at the centipede and informed him that it was not one of the fatal varieties, that it was very painful though.  The couple agreed with him that yes that was true, it was very painful.  I cringed as I nodded my head in agreement, ever so thankful that I had not been as unfortunate as they.

[ITSec]

So, since centipedes do not have 6 legs are they insects?  ;)

Nope - they're arthropods, more primitive than insects in general. They've had a few more hundred million years to learn how to be nasty!