Found it dead in my dishes
I think that's the bug they put in Neo in the first Matrix film
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Everyone 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.
This pretty well captures things! Insects that eat other insects are worth rooting for, but like you, Iβm on team spider.
I was bitten by one in my sleep as a kid, my foot swelled and it was pretty painful.
Generally 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.
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Thats 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
Yep, they are pretty cool ! Until there is no other pests leftβ¦
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That's a house centipede. They will leave you alone and eat lots of pests.
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.
I wish I had a few of those instead of a multitude of disgusting silverfish }:
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I think it's a mindflyer parasite. If you hear it talking to you, make sure not to listen.
Don't let it near your eye holes
Oh thatβs no problem. Donβt worry about it.
Looks 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..?
Banana for scale. This isnt the dark ages
Gee! 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)
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a 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
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Do 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.
proceeds to leave door open in summer days to keep the temps down
I 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.
House centipede. They eat other bugs and while scary looking are harmless. They like spiders appear from time to time without anything being wrong. Theyβre just looking for other bugs to eat.
Whatβs the size scale here β¦ is that corn??
It's a full sized human head.
Throw some sweet baby Ray's on it
Creepy?
That's not the actual image URL. It points to a webpage with the image. The image itself is here: https://gcdnb.pbrd.co/images/YCCuW7n9BhUB.jpg
Edit your post.
Oh ok thanks, i edited it. and I was wondering, why it doesnt show it (tried to upload it here first but got errors)
Saw the same thing in a nightmare last week
I think that's HR Geiger's pet prawn
Itβs a Run for your life!
Looks like it's out of MIB
Where in the world do these things live? I've never seen anything like it before, and we have some pretty crazy things you can find in a house here in Aus
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