The bug in question:
He’s about an inch, maybe an inch and a half long in the body - he’s currently parked over my bedroom door.
Should I kill him? If he’s not bitey, or germy or destructive, I’d rather not. OTOH, all those legs really wierd me out.
Okay, I think I found him: Scutigera coleoptrata - Wikipedia
He seems to be harmless-to-beneficial. He may live.
As long as he doesn’t try to get in my bed, or crawl on me.
You are a braver man than I, Gunga Din
I would have killed it.
I use to hate those things, but I had a cat that loved to hunt them at least. My apartment was really close to a creek and they were always around and creeping us out.
Eats bedbugs! He’s a keeper.
I knew this was going to be a house centipede as soon as I saw the title.
They are evil creatures. They bite and are the fastest sons of bitches I’ve ever seen. We had an infestation in our old apartment and they were disgusting. We put out glue traps and caught most of them that way.
I’m surprised that someone has never seen a 'pede before. I hate them and they gross me out in a way that I can’t explain. However, I have found peace with them due to their aforementioned roach and bedbug eating. Now when I see one I am grateful I’m not seeing something much, much worse.
MOTHERFUCKER!:!LKJ:L!KJ :eek:
You have no choice but to burn down your house and move, I’m totally serious.
Ah, house centipedes. I love 'em. Sure, they’re creepy as shit, but they kill and eat silverfish. Silverfish eat books. The choice is obvious.
SCARY! Saw one crawl across my living room floor the first week I lived in my new house. Went out the next morning and sprayed the foundation for bugs and vigorously cleaned every nook and cranny of the basement. Never saw one again.
Way too many legs to co-habitate with me. EEEEKK!
I absolutely hate these things. I don’t care what they eat, they have too many legs and they move too fast. I kill them. If yours is only an inch long, then it’s a little one.
I check my room for these every night before I turn out the lights. Just looking at that picture on Wikipedia made my heart rate shoot up. HATE them.
I’m in the tiny minority that finds house centipedes rather pretty–there’s something about how all those legs move that’s just fascinating. That, plus their dietary habits, means we’re friends. I actually ran a bit of water in the basement when I saw one the other day, just in case he needed a drink. (He did, but then I scared him off because I was afraid he’d drownded hisself. :smack:)
Horrid nasty things I hate more than any living thing on Earth.
I have one in my bathtub right now. We have it trapped under a plunger for fun.
I rarely kill them, but I only see them in the tub, usually, and only the one downstairs.
I will gladly move back to the land of house centipedes and away from the land of “palmetto bugs”. They’re American cockroaches, people! Please, give me back my harmless, relatively sanitary house centipedes.
I had one of these fuckers jump on my head while I was at the computer. I have no idea where it came from as there’s nothing that overhangs my chair but the ceiling.
No bed bugs in our area, but western PA is going through an infestation of gag stink bugs. My grandmother’s freaking out because because she HATES bugs and is on a quest to bomb them back to the stone age. And you can’t squash the little buggers because that would only release the stench.
(Fortunately, I heard a method of getting rid of them is creating a solution of water and Dawn dish soap, and they spraying them.)
Ugh! So far, the few ones I’ve found I’ve been able to pick up with a napkin and dump outside.
Probably the ceiling. I watched one hang out on the ceiling above my computer desk for a fairly long time before he dropped, without warning, onto the desk and scurried away. :eek: I like the things and this was a little bit unsettling–I got the feeling that while they can do the ceiling thing, they may not be particularly good at it.
Yeah, me too. I’m resident spider control, but I can only tolerate creatures with up to 8 legs. Centipedes are on my short list of creatures I hate, though unlike sowbugs which are also on the list they actually bite so there’s a reason not to like them. Centipedes are horrifying, so my method of dealing with them can best be summed up as “cry and kill.”