they also hiss. which scared the crap out of me.
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Imagine them fancy opera singing!
Do they his in opera? I'd say imagine they're little jazz musicians going tsss-t-t-tsss-t-t
Fancy jazz centisexyleggy!
Wait...whaaat?
THEY WHAT?!?
As if they weren't already scary enough!
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.
Something so small can exhale air loud enough for us to hear it. Absolutely wild!
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.
That's even crazier! Insect violins, these creatures are.
If they would wear pants...
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.
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.
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!
now if only both parties could agree to avoid each other
Yeah so I'm not into feet either.
They are cool friendly predators, but my cat is a bigger one.
That's a spider orgy.