1000 legs all over Bali

Sara said her place was getting to be full of centipedes every morning when she got up. They're not centipedes Sara, they're millipedes. Centipedes are poisonous. Millipedes aren't. There may be exceptions I suppose. This was a big year for the little millipedes. They were all over - in the garden, on the walks, crawling under doors. This brand tended to be short, slow, seemingly always on the move to whatever was in front of them. Indonesian for centipede is lipan. For millepede it's seribu kaki, a thousand legs. Centipedes They're segmented with two legs per segment. They can have them in the tens or hundreds depending on what type but they always have an odd number of segments so they can't have 1000 feet. There are some with more but they're rare. The type we have here roll up into a circle if bothered. They're sometimes called pill millepedes. I still find an occasional one moving slowly across the floor and when I do I get the dust pan and brush to give them a nice ride to the outside. If I accidentally step on one I hear it crack and crunch. Sorry Kim says one year they were so many that the streets were getting covered in their crushed carcasses.