# What is this 28-legged monster in my kitchen? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 8, 2009, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-28-legged-monster-in-my-kitchen/480421 "2009-01-08T20:51:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-28-legged-monster-in-my-kitchen/480421/41 "2009-01-10T00:21:04Z")
There is simply no non-evil purpose that many legs could be put to. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-28-legged-monster-in-my-kitchen/480421/42 "2009-01-10T00:31:19Z")
> [@Apex\_Rogers](#): > > See post #14 šŸ˜‰ Whooosh. šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-28-legged-monster-in-my-kitchen/480421/43 "2009-01-10T01:19:54Z")
> [@InterestedObserver](#): > > Nope, sorry. Not a Crane Fly. I wish I had a picture. It looked like a large, slightly fat mosquito, similar wing and body structure, with a head/proboscis like a hummingbird. Was black. The first few times I encountered one, I thought it was a mosquito, but it was much ā€œbeefierā€ and once it bit you, you knew it was not the run of the mill mosquito. > > Thanks for the suggestion. I will have to do some research and see if I can find anything like it. I donā€™t think they sting but there is a [moth](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroglossum_stellatarum) that looks like a hummingbird. It even drinks nectar the same way. ---
**Author:** ![SCSimmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-28-legged-monster-in-my-kitchen/480421/44 "2009-01-10T03:21:27Z")
> [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](#): > > There are 15ā€™ versions that live in South America and eat mice and bats. :eek: ā€¦ and pigs, and llamas, and cows, and hippopotamuses ā€¦ > [@Apex\_Rogers](#): > > Inches would be the correct measure. Oh, thank the gods. ---
**Author:** ![Apex\_Rogers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@Apex\_Rogers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apex_Rogers)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-28-legged-monster-in-my-kitchen/480421/45 "2009-01-10T03:29:48Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > Whooosh. šŸ˜‰ Yeah, I noticed after the fact that **astro** had managed to post the same video I did. Still, the comment seems a bit odd to me, what with the video only being posted twice. I would expect such a comment if something was repeatedly linked several times over the course of the thread, not twice in a simulpost. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-28-legged-monster-in-my-kitchen/480421/46 "2009-01-10T04:05:34Z")
I woke up at my brotherā€™s house with a centipede on my chest. I will NEVER sleep at his house again. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-28-legged-monster-in-my-kitchen/480421/47 "2009-01-10T04:42:30Z")
> [@Apex\_Rogers](#): > > [Centipede - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede#Largest_centipede) > > Hereā€™s a really cool (or gross/scary I suppose) video of one _eating a friggenā€™ mouse_. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CL2hetqpfg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CL2hetqpfg) **AAAAHHHHGGGGGHHHHH!!! EW EW EW EW EW!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!** I mean, isnā€™t nature fascinating? _shudder twitch_ ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-28-legged-monster-in-my-kitchen/480421/48 "2009-01-10T06:50:04Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Now imagine itā€™s tonight and youā€™re going to bed. You get into your pyjamas or whatever, turn off the lights, and hop into bed. > > ā€¦ and the mother clenches onto you with all her strength, and she bites, and bites, and bites. > > Sweet dreams! [been there, done that.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=469523&highlight=centipede) ---
**Author:** ![Henrichek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5daacb/32.png) [@Henrichek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Henrichek)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-28-legged-monster-in-my-kitchen/480421/49 "2009-01-10T07:19:06Z")
Threads such as this one remind me of how lucky I am to live in a subarctic climate. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2009, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-28-legged-monster-in-my-kitchen/480421/50 "2009-01-12T06:02:42Z")
You know, the more I look at these things and read about them, the more fascinated by them I am. I actually think Iā€™d love to keep one in a jar and watch it. I wonder where I could get a house centipede around here. (Here being southern Colorado.) Dealers seem to like bigger, more exotic centipedes more than common house centipedes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-28-legged-monster-in-my-kitchen/480421.md?page=2)