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imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• cm0002@lemy.lol ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They eat cockroaches and other bugs. House centipedes are friends.

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    • webp@mander.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The enemy of my enemy is my friend

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• TheDoozer@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Them and millipedes are allowed if AND ONLY IF they stay either out of sight or up in the corners. If they crawl across my bare foot they’re done.

  I went away for two weeks once, and afterwars went to the unfinished portion of my basement at the time to find the aftermath of an absolute warzone. Some yellowjackets (I think) had burrowed their nest through the wall, and there was an epic battle between them and the cave crickets (of which there were WAY more than I had thought). There were dismembered corpses absolutely covering the floors. And from what I could tell, you know who seemed to be the victor?

  The millipedes. There was ONE millipede body amongs the masses of cave crickets and yellowjackets. And each of the others weren’t eaten, just ripped in half.

  For the next year, we didn’t hear or see a single cave cricket, and that entire nest of yellowjackets was just… gone. But the millipedes… they flourished.

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• Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The downvote was from cockroach lover. Ew.

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• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I LOVE house centipedes! They can take all their million legs and crawl all over my house. I’ll even save them from my cats, as I don’t want the lil guys getting hurt! My cats can play with all the ants they want, but centipedes are too leg’d for me not to love.

  We do occasionally get venomous centipedes tho, those I do have to kill if they’re in my house. Sorry lil dudes. I’ve only found one in my decade at this place tho, the rest were friends!

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