Usually, I'm indifferent to bugs and the like, but when Edo leaped out of bed with a yelp - bitten by a
mukade, a Giant Japanese Centipede - I had the willies. These suckers are fatty, several inches in length, covered in thick crunchy armor, framed in fast moving legs. Here's a video of the bugger, nabbed under a plastic container. Holy heebie-jeebies.
The
mukade's bite is venomous and causes a lot of pain, but like a bee sting it's generally not life threatening. Coincidentally, last week at my Japanese teacher's house we talked about common creepy crawlers and methods dispatch. I was instructed to drop
mukade into boiling water so I did.
Here's the beast post-mortem.
this post gave me the heebiest of all jeebies. 百足, return to the hell from which you came!
ReplyDelete@Tako - Let's hope the mukade heard you :)
ReplyDeleteHey Emmy,
ReplyDeleteMy name is Brady and I really enjoy your videos and blog uploads. I love Asian culture and art. I do bonsai trees as a hobbie and I love to learn new Japanese words. I even know a whole sentence: tabemasu o wa kingyo eating happy goldfish!!! Ah! I wish I could meet you cuz you look so awesome to hang out with! Well ttyl!
Wow. That thing would give me freaking nightmares. I scream at tiny freaking american spiders and earwigs. I can't imagine finding that thing in my bed! I would die. D:
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely no question where Japanese story monsters come from - ackk.
ReplyDelete@subgirl - I know, right? Now imagine that in your bedroom.
ReplyDeleteIf I woke up and saw this creature crawling around I would so be like a huge scard-y cat.
ReplyDeleteUrgh! i hate bugs,from four legged to hundred legged bugs, specially when you found it on your bed.. watching the videos gives me goosebumps,, makes my toes curl slightly hahahaha... it's pretty large, that japanese centipede, here in the Philippines, we have centipede only about 3inches long, how's Edo? i've never been bitten by a centipede before, but my mother says it'll kinda make you caught slight fever? si that true?
ReplyDeleteThanks for the video anyway:-) Have nice day!