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1000 Legs Bug

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To a lesser extent the Silverfish is another insect with lots of legs but it has a distinctly different flat shape so its easy to keep that one straight. Despite what the name suggests millipedes do not possess 1000 legs in fact the worlds leggiest creature illacme plenipes has just the 750. 6 Reasons You Have Centipedes Dont know if thousand leg bug is the correct name but they are almost flat to the ground and have quite a few legs and move very fast i you see one you wont forget it Update. 1000 legs bug . Leucopterus hirtus Montandon the hairy chinch bug. You know that its a centipede because each body segment has one pairof legs two legs while millipede body segments each have two pairsfour legs. A millipede which is not an insect should have a thousand legs according to its name milli. The most important chinch bugs commonly found in lawns are Blissus insularis Barber the Southern chinch bug B. Centipedes or Thousand-Leggers in common vernacular are arthropods belongi...