There aren’t words for how terrifying a question this is to ask, knowing that my blissful ignorance could be shattered by an affirmative answer, but… I have house centipedes in my home. I kill one at least every other week, and they’re big suckers. My question is - Do they explore my sleeping form at night? I’d read at either snopes or this very site that the “Spiders in your mouth at night” thing was false, so I’m sort of hoping bugs just have a tendency to keep away from humans, but…
Also, is there an easy way to destroy these horrifying monsters once and for all? Do they sell poison baits for spawns from the very depths of hell?
Welcome to the SDMB.
First, the bad news:http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=119952
They definately DO crawl on you at night. I got bite by one, and I still have a pink scar on my wrist from it! I woke up to the bite pain, flicked on the light, and there the #@%^ing thing was!
The bite itself was moderately painful, but in the days that followed it lumped up and pussed like a mother! The scar that i have looks like I’ve been burned! (it’s about the size of a nickel)
The good news is, a good exterminator will rid you of them, but only for the season. You’ll have to have treatments every year for them!
Good luck! I’m on your side when it comes to those evil, ugly sonsabitches!
They crawl into your nose and lay eggs…muwahahah!!
No, no they don’t. Unfortunately though, there’s no guarantee that they won’t crawl on you as you sleep. Spiders also will crawl on sleeping people. You might want to call an exterminator if you’re killing a lot of them around your house.
They love wood mulch, so if you have some near your house as landscaping material, consider rock instead. They seek cool, damp places (good news, most people only have WARM damp places) such as basements and bathrooms. They don’t seek you out to bite you, but if in their travels they have to traverse a sleeping human, they’ll do it. Herein lies the danger, they won’t just take a nibble for fun, but most sleeping people will try to rub or slap things felt on them while sleeping. If they feel threatened, they’ll bite. And they are venomous, so the bites hurt.
So get drunk. Really drunk, every single night. You won’t slap them in a near coma-like state, and then they won’t bite you.
Which brings me to my next question for the masses - Which is cheaper? Getting sufficiently drunk every night, or hiring an exterminator?
No need to tell which is more fun. That one I can figure out on my own.