Found it dead in my dishes
OmegaMouse ( @OmegaMouse@feddit.uk ) English134•9 months agoI think that’s the bug they put in Neo in the first Matrix film
retrolasered ( @retrolasered@lemmy.zip ) English10•9 months agoStomach bug
Chaotic Entropy ( @ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk ) 6•9 months agoThere’s one going around, I hear.
hamburglar26 ( @hamburglar26@wilbo.tech ) 3•9 months agoJesus Christ that thing is real!!!
𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍 ( @sxan@midwest.social ) 99•9 months agoEveryone is saying they’re harmless, but we read house centipedes cam leave painful bites. I’ve never been bitten, that I know of, but when plagued with centipedes, I’d sometimes wake up with one of two types of mysterious bug bites: itchy, and painful. I know from prior experience that most North American spider bites are only ever itchy, so I always put the painful ones down to house centipedes. I can’t prove it, though. Here are the facts I do know about house centipedes, from empiricle evidence:
- They like damp. You’ll find them in damp spots, drains, around toilets, around damp areas in basements, etc. Not exclusively, but predominantly.
- They wage a secret war with spiders. Sometimes the spider wins, but usually the centipede does unless it gets trapped by a web.
- Alive, they move like the wind. Shockingly, alarmingly fast.
- When smacked, they explode into air and legs. So many legs, and not much else.
- Despite reports that they control other bugs, they are useless against real nuisance bugs like soldier and stink bugs. And for fly control, spiders do a better job. The only real thing we ever saw centipedes hunting were spiders.
- Small glue traps work really well at controlling them. I caution against large glue traps, as they might catch small rodentia, and if you want to know true horror, find a YouTube video of a mouse caught in a glue trap.
I’m team spider.
n3mo ( @n3mo@programming.dev ) 29•9 months agoThis pretty well captures things! Insects that eat other insects are worth rooting for, but like you, I’m on team spider.
MrFunnyMoustache ( @MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml ) 7•9 months agoI was bitten by one in my sleep as a kid, my foot swelled and it was pretty painful.
Umbrias ( @Umbrias@beehaw.org ) 5•9 months agoGenerally bug bites are more often from beetles than centipedes or spiders, meaning centipedes and spiders generally lower how many bug bites you’d be getting.
𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍 ( @sxan@midwest.social ) 4•9 months agoDude, what kind of beetles do you have around you‽ Where I live, I’m pretty confident there are no biting beetles - at least, none that can do any harm to humans.
Umbrias ( @Umbrias@beehaw.org ) 3•9 months agoYou have way more beetles than you think you do, and far more beetles than you believe can bite. If you can find a spider, there are dozens of beetles that it’s feeding on, in an over simplified way.
𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍 ( @sxan@midwest.social ) 2•9 months agoOh, I know we have tons of beetles. They invade our house every fall. I’ve never encountered a biting one, though.
redcalcium ( @redcalcium@lemmy.institute ) 3•9 months agoI’ve been bitten in the ass by centipede… twice. Took a few weeks until the bite mark disappear.
Floey ( @Floey@lemm.ee ) 2•9 months agoWouldn’t it be inhumane to catch centipedes with glue traps if it is with rodents?
orbitz ( @orbitz@lemmy.ca ) 2•9 months agoYour bullet points sound like an RTS (real time strategy) game’s description of a unit. I would prefer neither around me, let them wage war (or set up home) elsewhere preferably.
GnuLinuxDude ( @GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml ) 1•9 months agoAlive, they move like the wind. Shockingly, alarmingly fast.
This is true. It was both shocking and alarming how fast it moved when I first spotted one in my room after moving to the east coast.
Haphazard9479 ( @Haphazard9479@lemm.ee ) 78•9 months agoThats a house centipede. Looks creepy, but its a nice house pet. It eats all of the other, undesireable, pests in your house.
Ok, thanks! Unfortunatelly this one doesnt qualify anymore as a pet but i am sure there are others around in the garden eg
Mitch404 ( @Mitch404@lemm.ee ) 8•9 months agoYep, they are pretty cool ! Until there is no other pests left…
khalic ( @khalic@beehaw.org ) 1•9 months agoThis is centipede propaganda, long live the spider queen, death to the centipedes!
iesou ( @iesou@lemm.ee ) 52•9 months agoThat’s a house centipede. They will leave you alone and eat lots of pests.
lemillionsocks ( @lemillionsocks@beehaw.org ) 13•9 months agoyeah 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.
nxdefiant ( @nxdefiant@startrek.website ) 20•9 months agothat visualization doesn’t help, at all
lemillionsocks ( @lemillionsocks@beehaw.org ) 2•9 months agoTheyre just winking at you across the floor ;)
jabathekek ( @jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ) 9•9 months agoI wish I had a few of those instead of a multitude of disgusting silverfish }:
Turun ( @Turun@feddit.de ) 3•9 months agoBut silverfish are not bad either? They don’t carry disease.
iesou ( @iesou@lemm.ee ) 12•9 months agoSilverfish eat the glue that’s used to bind books. So they’re a pest to someone with a personal library.
pixelscript ( @pixelscript@lemmy.ml ) English5•9 months agoHuh. So that’s why they’re found in Minecraft strongholds.
jabathekek ( @jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ) 3•9 months agoThey 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.
tubbadu ( @tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social ) 38•9 months agoForbidden shrimp
Duranie ( @Duranie@lemmy.film ) English10•9 months agoFor the love of God could you not?
T (they/she) ( @Templa@beehaw.org ) 4•9 months agoIt really looks like a shrimp 🦐
ditty ( @dditty@lemm.ee ) 1•9 months agoSlimy yet satisfying
Chefdano3 ( @Chefdano3@lemm.ee ) English27•9 months agoI think it’s a mindflyer parasite. If you hear it talking to you, make sure not to listen.
flashgnash ( @flashgnash@lemm.ee ) 5•9 months agoDon’t let it near your eye holes
intensely_human ( @intensely_human@lemm.ee ) 25•9 months agoOh that’s no problem. Don’t worry about it.
Mothra ( @Mothra@mander.xyz ) 21•9 months agoLooks like a house centipede to me. Something for scale would be useful
Hmm yes, could be, thanks! As i read, they do exist here where i live.
For scale: Small and big spoons…?
retrolasered ( @retrolasered@lemmy.zip ) English12•9 months agoBanana for scale. This isnt the dark ages
Mothra ( @Mothra@mander.xyz ) 7•9 months agoGee! I didn’t notice the spoons until you mentioned it, sorry! Must be a very small centipede then. Fully grown ones are about 10cm long, and they are very, very, very very fast. (But harmless)
Ah ok! havent seen them around here alive anywhere, maybe cause they re nightactive, as i read… The spoons are not too obvious in the pic, so understandable. Thank you again for all the info
Bloodwoodsrisen ( @Bloodwoodsrisen@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•9 months agoNeither did i, thought i was looking at a giant bug i hadn’t seen before!
katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 20•9 months agoWelp time to burn down the house
VCTRN ( @victron@programming.dev ) English4•9 months agoThe only sensible answer.
voxel ( @vox@sopuli.xyz ) 19•9 months agoa good ol’ centipede. they like crawling out of drains and usually completely harmless (they can bite afaik, but never happened to me, even though i liked to rip their legs off as a kid for some reason… also depends on the species)
this one is super chonky tho and has less legs then regular ones I’ve seen before…probably American one/s interolivary ( @interolivary@beehaw.org ) 3•9 months agoeven though i liked to rip their legs off as a kid for some reason
How many people have you killed? Be honest
BlueKittyMeow ( @BlueKittyMeow@beehaw.org ) 2•9 months agoGuy my sister used to like apparently used to, as a VERY small child … maim/decapitate chicks. He has no memory of doing this but it freaked his mother out. I was told that he earnestly avowed “But I don’t do that ANY MORE!”
He ended up becoming a butcher, I’m dead serious. Apparently a really calm and protective and caring guy?
This is the kind of stuff that contributed to my decision to never have kids. Way too big of a risk 😬
Comment105 ( @Comment105@lemm.ee ) 18•9 months agoDo what I did and weld your house out of 20mm steel plate and have tightly controlled, thoroughly monitored and analyzed airflow, with a single two-stage entry hallway for washing off and inspecting your terran exploration suit and all acquisitions before entering your home.
I can pull a serious vacuum on this bitch, nothing’s getting in unless I want it in.
DudeDudenson ( @DudeDudenson@lemmings.world ) 10•9 months agoproceeds to leave door open in summer days to keep the temps down
ExLisper ( @ExLisper@linux.community ) English15•9 months agoI’m not an expert but it looks like a dead bug.
Thisfox ( @Thisfox@sopuli.xyz ) 1•9 months agoNah, bugs have sucking mouthparts, and are insects. those aren’t sucking mouthparts. Those things chew. And too many legs to be an insect, or a bug.
ExLisper ( @ExLisper@linux.community ) English1•9 months agoOk, as I said I’m not an expert. What is it then? A monster?
Thisfox ( @Thisfox@sopuli.xyz ) 1•9 months agoHonestly hadd to say. Looks to me like an arthropod, and perhaps even an insect. Just maybe those extra legs are pseuodopods (like the fake legs of a caterpillar) of a nymph (juvenile). It could be a dragonfly larva? There is no indication of size, but seems like baby dragonfly that I have seen in the past. If small though, it could be a silverfish. Those aren’t insects, just arthropods, they are related to slaters.
10_0 ( @10_0@lemmy.ml ) 14•9 months agoLooks like a dead centipede that got infected by a parasite in the legs
Echo Dot ( @echodot@feddit.uk ) 10•9 months agoWhere in the world do you live, so I can order a nuclear strike.
lauha ( @lauha@lemmy.one ) 7•9 months agoThe Tanzanian blue ringleg occupies a cosmopolitan distribution, and is found across all major continents; however, it has not been widely documented in Europe. It is thought to be native to the majority of continental Australia (with the exception of Victoria, South Australia, and south-western Western Australia), Africa (except for the Eritrean Highlands and Red Sea Hills), most of South and South East Asia, Madagascar and Sri Lanka. The centipede has been introduced to much of the Americas, with sightings outside its native range in Peru, Mexico, Argentina, the Bahamas and the Southern United States. It has been proposed that the preference of red-headed centipedes for habitats similar to the conditions on ships has resulted in their widespread invasion of inhabited areas.
So everywhere except Europe and Antarctica
Echo Dot ( @echodot@feddit.uk ) 1•9 months agoWith it
Pulptastic ( @Pulptastic@midwest.social ) English14•9 months agoI stayed a night in a dorm room before a bike race. I saw one of these before I went to sleep but couldn’t catch/kill it. I still slept like a baby.