Does anyone know the name of the crawling bugs called 'thousand-leggars'?

Question

...They are either black and furry with 2 white stripes down their backs or they are tan in color. They have two long antennae and have spikey fur all over their bodies. Someone said that they are catepillars that bite, some say they don't bite.

Answer 1

they DON"T bite .....but the "spikey fur" will inject a substance into you that burns like the dickens....we used to call them "wooly boogers"

hope this helped

Answer 2

Centi = 1/100 and Milli =1/1000
So in this matter:
Centi = 100
Milli = 1,000
Hence: the answer is millipede.
Centipedes have one pair of legs per body segment and millipedes have two pair of legs per body segment.
Millipedes can be black or rust colored and do not bite.
Centipedes have antennae and can bite.
My experience has been they are often confused.

Edited to add:
Here is a source:
http://lancaster.unl. (and add) edu/pest/resources...

Answer 3

What you are thinking of or seeing are centipedes their legs stick out the sides. Thousand leggers or Millipedes are dark red almost brown in color and have a lot more legs underneath their bodies. I haven't seen one of them in years.

Answer 4

its a centipede. cent=1,000. its not a millipede either. Milla=1,000,000. it could be a Caterpillar to. but millipedes, and centipedes are common in Arizona.

Answer 5

Centipedes Yes they do bite and I hear that they have a poison bite - that they it will kill you.

Answer 6

yeah they're called centipedes ,and yes they have been known to bite. some people call them silver fish

Answer 7

Either centipedes, or millipedes.

Answer 8

yeah centipede

Answer 9

They are called myriapods.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriapod

Answer 10

millipedes