7mo ago

Leg day, bros

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I think these bois, much like “spider crickets”, get a lot of flack because their legs are TOO DAMN LONG! They’re cool dudes, but something about those weirdly long legs…
- Hey, they are the fluffiest critters ever among those that ran over me. They don't even tickle, just a smooth touch.
  Developes feelings for the house centipedes

It's their suddenness that freaks me out. I had been sitting on my couch for two hours the other night when one scuttled out from beneath my feet!
- this is why i respect web spinning spiders and jumping spiders (despite the name).
  web spinners just spin their webs and sit there, they're in their lane and flourishing.
  jumping spiders are smart enough to recognize that we are gods compared to them, and that we probably won't appreciate them making sudden fast movements.

I'm not really scared of them, but I do have a visceral reaction to them. Something about them makes me want to vomit. Or, maybe it's a level of fear I don't recognize because I go from 0 to vomit and wanting to claw my eyes out real quick.
- it's wild because humans are supposed to have this sort of reaction programmed into us for snakes, but i'm absolutely fine with snakes and even find some of them quite cute!
  but anything with long thin legs? incinerate it in nuclear hellfire
- I feel ya. When I find them in the garden, where one expects to find a multitude of bugs, it gives me the heebie jeebies soo bad. It's def the zillions of legs going mach 9 for me.
- Texbook phobia.

The last point is the important one. If you're regularly seeing these in your house that means they've found a food source: your house is infested with another insect they're keeping at bay.
- They won't actually beat back an infestation though. They are too territorial.

I caught one trying to be in my bathroom and decided to be "nice" by tossing it into my basement.
Down there the entire floor had been sprayed with insect repellent from signs of fleas and roaches, there has been signs of mice and lord knows what else down there too.
2 days later I found it dead having made it all the way to the staircase. Definitely one of the strongest showings in the Gauntlet but not strong enough.
- what the fuck are you gonna do the first time something makes it up the stairs? I hope you have a flamethrower ready.
- That's so mean :'(

They are not 100% harmless than can and have bitten humans.
- Side note, do not stomp AT them in bare feet (in an attempt to scare them off). They will attack your toes

While centipedes are fine, I've always been much more of a milipede fan.
- ngl, I think millipede is kinda cute. I'm thinking about building a terrarium tank and keep a few of them as pet.
- It's weird how when they have even more legs somehow they become less creepy. I guess it's because they have to pack them in so tight and it starts to almost become cute.
  
  I'll say it: milipedes are cute.