- DaPorkchop_ ( @DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml ) English7•1 day ago
I’ve spent the last year or so trying to get myself to not jump out of my pants every time I see one of these things. Then roughly a month ago, I get up at 2am to take a piss, and as I’m opening the door this little fucker falls down no more than 10cm away from my face, lands right on my foot and would have probably run up my pyjamas if I hadn’t managed to reflexively kick and launch it flying across the room. I think it must have been either sitting on top of the door or been trying to climb through the doorframe just as I opened it. Pretty sure I woke up everyone in the house, and probably the neighbors too.
Anyway, my phobia of these little shits is now 100 times worse than it was.
- FuzzyRedPanda ( @Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee ) English2•9 hours ago
I got up one night around 1am to pee. I see maybe 3 or 4 of these little guys in my house each summer, so not very often, but enough that I am always on guard for them, so I turn on the bathroom light and put my feet on the bathmat, thinking it will offer some sort of centipede protection. I am halfway through peeing when one of those little devils apparates out of nowhere and runs full speed right at me. The bathmat does not slow it down at all.
I don’t care what they eat. In my house, they are the worst pest.
- DrDystopia ( @DrDystopia@lemy.lol ) English4•1 day ago
Yeah so I’m not into feet either.
- Nima ( @Nima@leminal.space ) English24•2 days ago
they also hiss. which scared the crap out of me.
- FuzzyRedPanda ( @Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee ) English4•9 hours ago
Wait…whaaat?
THEY WHAT?!?
As if they weren’t already scary enough!
- Nima ( @Nima@leminal.space ) English1•8 hours ago
it’s ok! its really just them saying “Please don’t touch me =(”
but it really is a bit jarring the first time you hear it.
- averyminya ( @averyminya@beehaw.org ) English1•8 hours ago
Something so small can exhale air loud enough for us to hear it. Absolutely wild!
- Nima ( @Nima@leminal.space ) English2•8 hours ago
its actually stridulation! they rub their legs together to make a hissing noise (if I recall correctly). like a cricket kinda. but its a long hiss rather than a chirp.
- averyminya ( @averyminya@beehaw.org ) English2•5 hours ago
That’s even crazier! Insect violins, these creatures are.
- Evil_Shrubbery ( @Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ) English13•2 days ago
Imagine them fancy opera singing!
- smeg ( @smeg@feddit.uk ) English3•2 days ago
Do they his in opera? I’d say imagine they’re little jazz musicians going tsss-t-t-tsss-t-t
- Evil_Shrubbery ( @Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ) English2•1 day ago
Fancy jazz centisexyleggy!
- i_dont_want_to ( @i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English7•2 days ago
They eat cockroaches, termites, and bedbugs. They want nothing to do with me and stay out of my way. I bet they think I look creepy as hell too.
House centipedes are friends!
- lugal ( @lugal@sopuli.xyz ) English12•2 days ago
If they would wear pants…
- s_s ( @s_s@lemm.ee ) English3•2 days ago
They are cool friendly predators, but my cat is a bigger one.
- Rivalarrival ( @Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ) English1•2 days ago
That’s a spider orgy.