This is a female red-headed centipede, curling around her newly hatched babies. Centipedes are usually solitary, but females are surprisingly great at caring for their eggs and young. The mother will guard her eggs and the young for more than a month until they are ready to move around on their own. During this time, she barely hunts for herself, but anything she does catch she will usually share with her babies. Giant red-headed centipedes are native to Texas but rare around Fort Worth, being m