Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1911 — Electric Centipedes. [ARTICLE]

Electric Centipedes.

Least attractive among the Insects which give light are the so called "electric centipedes.” black crawlers with many legs which have been likened to serpents’ skeletons in miniature. They move in a snakelike fashion, forward or backward, leaving behind them a bright track of phosphoric light However, they are most accustomed to appear in the daytime, when the illumination they afford is not visible.— London Times.