RAWAI: Villagers in Rawai were dumbfounded when an enormous centipede, reportedly half a meter in length, was noticed close to a public waterhole in Village 2. At Eye-opening on February 6, villagers in the space of Baan Thai Mai (New Thais Village, or “Sea Gypsy” village) on Wiset Rd had been seen crowding round a 20-meter-tall sugar palm tree. All had been excitedly attempting to catch a glimpse of an infinite centipede reportedly hiding out excessive up within the tree’s canopy. Some villagers had been throwing rocks on the tree, hoping to pressure the arthropod to return down and make an appearance. Others stood ready with cameras, hoping to seize an image of the creature as a memento. One villager, identified solely as Rawee, forty five, stated he was the primary one to identify the centipede the day before. He and 4 different friends have been bathing within the public waterhole when he noticed the enormous centipede crawl down the tree and dip itself in the water earlier than crawling again as a lot as the safety of the tree’s upper reaches. He described the centipede as reddish-brown in shade, about 50 centimeters in length and with a girth much like that of a human arm. Rawee and his bathing buddies had been astonished by the scale of the centipede as a end result of they’d by no means seen something like it, he stated. After the initial shock wore off, he screamed out to other villagers within the space in regards to the centipede. All who noticed it agreed that it was, in reality, a really large specimen. Word of the discovery soon turned the speak of the tambon, with folks from near and far hoping to catch a glimpse of the hundred-legged invertebrate. The sheer dimension of the creature, if accurately reported, is important as a end result of the biggest known species of centipede, the Amazonian big centipede, reportedly maxes out at about 30 centimeters in size. The Vietnamese centipede, which matches the color description given by K. Rawee, solely reaches about 20 centimeters in size. At final report, residents of the world have been planning a mission to scale the sugar palm in an effort to catch a better view of the centipede – or even seizee