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 |