40 Legs in Jamaica
40 Legs in JamaicaHey everyone, I’m still in Jamaica and was inspired to post this because it’s UGLY as hell!!
I’ve always heard about “Forty Legs” in Jamaica – basically they’re a giant centipede and when I say giant…..I mean it! I’m on my 14th trip right now and have never had the pleasure of visiting with a Forty-Leg til now. I used to get jealous when I heard that first-time or second-time travelers had encountered them and I hadn’t yet.
Picture of Forty-Leg in Jamaica
I was sitting in my apartment one night with a friend of mine and we were just chatting when his eyes moved past me and got wide. The next word that came out of his mouth was “Bumboclaat!!” and I thought I’d turn around to just see a roach or something. When I turned around I jumped off the couch faster than if it were on fire and ran!!
My friend was wearing boots so he put his foot on top of the Forty Leg to keep it from disappearing. I was jumping around in hysterics yelling for him to kill it but then I yelled “WAIT let me get my camera!”. I’ve never seen one before and who knows when I’ll see another one so had to take the opportunity before it got squashed. This one was about 6 inches long and moved FAST! That just added to the disgusting factor.
After I took the picture he stomped on it but the damn thing wouldn’t die….at all. It just kept squirming so we swept it outside and into the bushes.
So that was my Forty Leg experience. Just thought you all should know LOL!
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Oh my gosh! What a scary looking insect!!!! I’d have had a stroke there n’ then…I’ve come across the black worms whilst in JA, and thought they were bad enough. I guess the speed at which they move does add to the uuuuuuuurgh! factor.
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LOL
YUCK
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WORD!!!!!
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Kristi, there just are no words…
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Ewwww! That’s the creepiest bug I’ve ever seen.
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LOL just reading all your comments. I agree with them all!!
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Try getting bitten by one… It really stings!
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For real you’ve been bit?? Lord have mercy I don’t know if I could survive that LOL!
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Just five minutes ago I was watching tv and one of them run past my leg. Stepped on it twice and it was still alive. Had to get a cutlass and cut it up.
Ps…second one this in the pass few months FML
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LOL I know!! They don’t die when you stomp on them! I hear they’re coming inside more lately because the weather’s cool.
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Thanks for that piece of information. Gonna really help me sleep good tonight >_<
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LOL sorry!!! If it makes you feel better last night I dreamed I had a spider in my hair and no one would help me LOL!
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my mom just leave for the hospital cause she was bitten by one! crazy ugly creature very dangerous. hard to die
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Oooooh that’s crappy Mega! I hope she feels better soon!
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I just got home from Ocho Rios. Got bit in the foot by a big 40 Leg! Hurt like a SOB! Foot got swolen up a little and hurt for a while. Its a week later and its still red and itchy. Nice Restaurant , Food was great, Dessert wasn’t!
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Woodsy are you serious?? You got bit in a restaurant? Which one? I’m starting to feel lucky that I’ve never been bit and only had a close encounter.
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OMG!!!! I am sooooo creeped out right now……you don’t even know. I couldn’t do it!!! Ughhhh
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My dad was bitten by one… i was in Greece 40 and he was bitten… it was so scary…i’m from Serbia and in Serbia there’s no 40 leg… at first, we didn’t know what is that cuz we never saw that cuz in my country there’s no 40 leg…i was scared… :O that insect is disgusting! :S
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Was sleeping one night on a greek island small house, one month ago. Got up around 3 in the morning having the impression something was walking on my arm. I searched the whole bed and blanket with a lamp, could find nothing.
Went back to sleep. At 4, again woke up. Again something tickled my arm just a bit; Again searched. This time was sure I didn’t dream it. After looking without success for some time, got out of bed and threw the lamp light on the blanket… Suddenly I saw its tail, hiding from the light.
It was in the bed for at least one hour;
It was very big. Much bigger than the photo you post; Like 8 inches or more;
It was very hard to kill.
But it didn’t bite me. I still don’t understand what it was doing there;
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Lord have mercy KK!!! Glad you were okay! I don’t think I could have handled one bigger than the one in my picture!!
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Are these insects only over in other country’s or are they in the US also because my wife has been finding insects that look exactly like the one in the pic but only way smaller but my question is why are they coming in the house and how and maybe someone can tell me were to look under my house for a entree spots. Thanks
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i’m pretty sure the smaller version are just centipedes. We have them in Canada too, I think they’re everywhere.
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they are not all that big, i seen several as i stayed there half a year last time, and with a jamaican i was dating, so any where we went he would spray… well it didnt take long in this place in the hills we stayed at, half a dozen came out. the most little one were the fastest, just moving in S… SCARY hehehe… i guess you just gotta watch where you put your foot dung.
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we DO NOT have these types of 40 legs in canada. our centipedes first of all do not bite, but also do not have venom like the jamaican 40-legs.
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LOL Ms.B. I definitely learned to sleep with one eye open after this one sauntered through my living room! I heard they like to hide under sheets in cool weather so you better believe I flipped up my sheets EVERY NIGHT to make sure nothing was under there LOL!!
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Omg I was. Biten by a 40 leg last night it really hurt I feel as if I was gonna die…even now it still hurts and its s day after….I’m reallly worried my entired back is in pain…..I haven’t been to c a doctor my mom have me some home remedies… I’m really in pain! I’m even afraid to sleep..fairin I’m gonna get biten again..
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UGH Teri! that sucks!! I hope you’re feeling better soon! I know after I saw this one I was scared to go in my bed too. Every night I would flip up the sheets and search the whole bed before getting into it just in case something was hiding in the sheets LOL.
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