Red-headed centipede

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Photographs show examples, not an identification of the animal found in Beijing. Animal identification is provisional. The school photographs suggest a stone centipede and camel cricket. Food and habitat vary by species. These are observation resources, not feeding instructions.

File:Chinese Red-headed Centipede (Scolopendra subspinipes) (5804636142).jpg
Thomas Brown · CC BY 2.0 · resized for display

File:Scolopendra mutilans (red-legged).jpg
Warehadokuro · CC BY-SA 4.0 · resized for display

File:Scolopendra subspinipes mutilans DSC 1438.jpg
Yasunori Koide · CC BY-SA 3.0 · resized for display

Gryllus_campestris_3.jpg
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Araneus_diadematus_MHNT_Femelle_Fronton.jpg
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HolgerK at English Wikipedia · Public domain · resized for display

Information sources

Natural History Museum: crane flies

Earthworm Society of Britain: diet

University of Minnesota: crickets

Illinois Extension: centipedes

Butterfly Conservation: moth feeding

Additional photographs

Detail views are enlarged portions of the credited photographs. / 特写为原照片的放大部分。

File:Large tan-capped mushrooms beside a rotting log, Potawatomi State Park, Wisconsin.jpg
Z3lvs · CC0 · resized for display

File:Lichen and moss growing on a rotting log on the forest floor at Lake Temescal, Oakland, California. DSF1121.jpg
Levi Clancy · CC0 · resized for display

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Jonathan Kington · CC BY-SA 2.0 · resized for display

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School photographs

Photographs supplied by the teacher from the school grounds. Close-up views display selected parts of the original photographs. No anatomical detail has been generated. Identification is provisional at the group level.

Movement video

Supplementary material 1: semiaquatic Lithobius matulici behaviour
László Dányi, Gergely Balázs and Ivan Hadrián Tuf · Open Database License 1.0

First fifteen seconds, audio removed, resized and converted to H.264 MP4. Retains original source terms.

This is another stone-centipede species, filmed in a cave, not the Beijing school find. Do not describe it as the same species.