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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve Dudley" data-source="post: 1830948" data-attributes="member: 5172">large black millipede experienceAn experience that has just come back to me, with a judder, was experiencing my first ever large black millepede. I was putting my walking socks on first thing in the morning and felt what I thought was a ruck in the back of the sock I had just put on. I went to smooth it with my fingers and it moved! I immediately whipped off my sock to see a 4-inch long, thick (pencil width) millipede drop out of my sock and leg it under the bed. I went to look for it but it disappeared completely. I'm not usually jumpy with such things, but this big sod freaked me! The millipede left its mark too. When stressed they secrete a fluid which burns. I had a stingy rash and double-indentation where the millipede had been coiled against my skin for about a week afterwards. I've since learnt that these things are by no means uncommon and some buildings are plagued with them. First I ever seen anywhere in Europe.</blockquote>