Found it dead in my dishes

  • iesou@lemm.ee
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    That’s a house centipede. They will leave you alone and eat lots of pests.

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      Thanks for taking the useful approach, rather than parroting the usual drivel

      Edit It turns out they feed on bed bugs - surely that should sway a few people.

      …And they can detach their legs? I want one!

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        Just so people who see them aren’t worried, they don’t just eat bed bugs. They will eat basically any insect that is smaller than they are up to and including spiders. I even saw one eating a yellowjacket once. So having house centipedes in your home doesn’t mean that you have bedbugs.

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          Spiders are creepy but they’re not bad either. Get rid of flies and mosquitos

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            1 year ago

            This advice may not apply to Australia but in general, it’s true.

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                Actually Huntsman’s don’t! They’re the big hairy brown ones that you’ve seen carrying mice on social media. They’re non-venemous and their whole schtick is that they run to catch their prey. They’re incredibly creepy but when I see one I cup+paper it and put it outside. It’ll probably find it’s way back in eventually but not before taking out a few insects in the process.

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          Yeah it means you have house centipedes which is only slightly less bad.

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        I want one!

        Don’t worry, you already have more than one, probably hiding in the walls.

        Unless you live in a high rise building…

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          They probably have two, regardless of where they live. Unless they are in a wheelchair.

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            When I lived in a concrete high-rise, I never saw any centipedes. Now that I reside in a mostly wood/drywall house, I’ve seen at least three.

            I lived in that high-rise for ~4 years, I’ve lived in this house for ~1 year.

            I do what I can to leave the centipedes alone so they can do their thing. We also have spiders, which are all considered bro’s in our home.

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              It was a joke on

              …And they can detach their legs? I want one!

              The “one” can refer to both a leg, as well as a complete centipede.

              I realize the joke didn’t land at all. Oh well!

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      From the wikipedia machine:

      >They use both their mandibles and their legs for holding prey. This way they can deal with several small insects at the same time.

      Final boss energy

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          Silverfish eat the glue that’s used to bind books. So they’re a pest to someone with a personal library.

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          They only have six legs, so very uncool. Also, they’re jumpscare experts. Chillin’ on the frickin’ ceiling, in packs of toilet paper, my dirty laundry bin… I despise them for it.

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          I’ve got regular silverfish in the bathroom, but gray silverfish (or paperfish as they are called here) in the rest of the house. Those things are larger and much more destructive, some found their way in my collection of sheet music… They literally eat their way through paper and even damage untreated wood, nasty critters. And worse, where ventilating your house helps against silverfish, it only seems to create even better living conditions for those buggers. I’d trade for house centipedes happily.

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      yeah it’s just zoomed in, discolored, and wet/squished. Poor thing. Theyre unnerving at first but once you get used to them you can think of them as eyelashes gliding around the floor.