European Diseases: The diseases brought to this continent by the Europeans included bubonic plague, chicken pox, pneumonic plague, cholera, diphtheria, influenza, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, typhus, tuberculosis, and whooping cough.
Silverfish are sometimes mistaken for centipedes, which do inflict painful bites. One way to tell the difference is to note how many legs the bug has. Upon close inspection of a silverfish, youâll see that it only has six legs. o Silverfish are small insects (between 1/4 inch and 1/2 inch) and have shimmering, silver-colored scales.
William Barrett, London NW10. The European centipede (Chilopoda) Himantarum gabrielis has up to 354 legs. The American millipede (Diplopoda) Illacme plenipes has up to 750 legs. Both of these type of arthropod reach up to about 30cm and both have poison glands - millipede (M) along the body, centipede (C) has fangs. M (about 8000 species) is a slow moving, detritivorous (decayed stuff) herbivore, has a rounded, quite rigid body, 2 pairs of legs per segment, generally nocturnal and has short antenna.