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15th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
A Giant Desert Centipede (Scolopendra heros) envenomating a grasshopper

While walking through the Sonoran Desert on a zoological field course in Arizona, fellow students and I stumbled across this huge centipede patrolling the substrate in the darkness of night. We followed the monstrous as it scuttled under a log. I gently lifted the log to reveal the centipede hunting a grasshopper!

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 09.2015
Date Uploaded: 11.2017
Photo Location: Arizona, United States of America
Camera: PENTAX *ist DL2
Copyright: © JOSH PHANGURHA