Everyone is saying they're harmless, but we read house centipedes cam leave painful bites. I've never been bitten, that I know of, but when plagued with centipedes, I'd sometimes wake up with one of two types of mysterious bug bites: itchy, and painful. I know from prior experience that most North American spider bites are only ever itchy, so I always put the painful ones down to house centipedes. I can't prove it, though. Here are the facts I do know about house centipedes, from empiricle evidence:
- They like damp. You'll find them in damp spots, drains, around toilets, around damp areas in basements, etc. Not exclusively, but predominantly.
- They wage a secret war with spiders. Sometimes the spider wins, but usually the centipede does unless it gets trapped by a web.
- Alive, they move like the wind. Shockingly, alarmingly fast.
- When smacked, they explode into air and legs. So many legs, and not much else.
- Despite reports that they control other bugs, they are useless against real nuisance bugs like soldier and stink bugs. And for fly control, spiders do a better job. The only real thing we ever saw centipedes hunting were spiders.
- Small glue traps work really well at controlling them. I caution against large glue traps, as they might catch small rodentia, and if you want to know true horror, find a YouTube video of a mouse caught in a glue trap.
I'm team spider.
My brother/sister in christ, have you considered nuking your neighborhood from orbit ?
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Looks like a house centipede to me. Something for scale would be useful
Do what I did and weld your house out of 20mm steel plate and have tightly controlled, thoroughly monitored and analyzed airflow, with a single two-stage entry hallway for washing off and inspecting your terran exploration suit and all acquisitions before entering your home.
I can pull a serious vacuum on this bitch, nothing's getting in unless I want it in.
a good ol' centipede. they like crawling out of drains and usually completely harmless (they can bite afaik, but never happened to me, even though i liked to rip their legs off as a kid for some reason... also depends on the species)
this one is super chonky tho and has less legs then regular ones I've seen before...probably American one/sDeath. Now burn it or pray for a good afterlife.
It's not on fire.
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This shit is freaky! I would abandon that house and move to a different country lol
Kos, or some say Kosm
That's one of those sci-fi things that crawls into your belly button and makes its way up to your brain.
A sign to commit arson and find a new home.
Creepy?
Nightmare fuel
Burn the Entire House Down.
Salt its earth
Bury Toxic waste within its cavity and erect hostile architecture to warn everyone not to approach.
that is the ONLY logical solution here
get the fuck out of that house my guy
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Alien from The Hidden.
Throw some sweet baby Ray's on it
It's a bird
I think that's HR Geiger's pet prawn
oh hell naw who clicked the red bubble
Saw the same thing in a nightmare last week
Itβs a Run for your life!
That's a nope fam.
As others said, house centipede! Yours looks freaky AF, but generally when they aren't... FLESHY ugh shudder, they are pretty cute little fuzzy guys! Like little dachshund/robot/Roomba/bug hybrids with a mission to patrol and keep the mean bugs away from you. Smol friend!
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Funky bug thingie.
Crab People Crab People
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noooo... the doggie died...... :'(
It sure is, buddy!
dinner
The devil.
Yes, fair.
kraken sperm
Burn it!
That to me looks like a creature that should not exist in my home. That is all I need to know. Because I killed a bunch of bees and spiders that invaded my house in the last week.
Cremling
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I Dunno dawg, you should move out rn, it keeps your shit, I'm not touching it.
