While I know they’re harmless that has not stopped from committing war crimes against one that found its way to my shower.
Leg day, bros
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StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Nougat@fedia.io 1 week ago
Limousine spider.
They also appear to be smart, aggressive, and territorial. I have been chased by several. And I have run away with great haste.
send_me_your_mommy_milkers@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Well I guess sleep is optional tonight
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Odd, I’ve had several in my room in my last place, but they didn’t seem territorial or aggressive to humans. Sometimes too close I’d worry I’d hurt it but other than that…
SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Limousine spider. Great! I’ll never forget that anymore for life. Haha
Nougat@fedia.io 6 days ago
Steal it just like I did.
Okokimup@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I would far rather the spiders in my house eat these things.
Fester@lemm.ee 6 days ago
A house centipede is just 4 spiders in a trench coat.
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Straight up I leave Wolf Spiders alive for this goal.
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
I don’t think they can. Once a centipede is of decent size I think it’s much stronger than the average house Spider. Australia notwithstanding.
macrocephalic@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Can confirm that our house spiders are pretty tough. A car ran off the road and into the front wall of my house spider last year and it barely left a mark. We still live here.
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 6 days ago
I don’t think house spider eat cockroaches. I would worship them if they could.
HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Why not both?
Pandantic@midwest.social 6 days ago
I think the bois, much like “spider crickets”, get a lot of flack because their legs are TOO DAMN LONG! They’re cool dudes, but something about those weirdly long legs…
Land_Strider@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Hey, they are the fluffiest critters ever among those that ran over me. They don’t even tickle, just a smooth touch.
Developes feelings for the house centipedes
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I doubt this will help my deep discomfort but it did make me happy :)
flicker@lemmy.world 6 days ago
It’s their suddenness that freaks me out. I had been sitting on my couch for two hours the other night when one scuttled out from beneath my feet!
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
this is why i respect web spinning spiders and jumping spiders (despite the name).
web spinners just spin their webs and sit there, they’re in their lane and flourishing.
jumping spiders are smart enough to recognize that we are gods compared to them, and that we probably won’t appreciate them making sudden fast movements.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 6 days ago
nope doesnt help, imma get my flame thrower nevertheless
FarFarAway@startrek.website 6 days ago
I was in college before I saw one. I grew up with giant 8" long centipedes, but this guy freaked me out more than I can say. Couldn’t even tell it was a centipede. Might as well have been an alien.
Gag.
Freaky motherfookers
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
it’s the legs and speed that do it, normal centipedes are plenty freaky but the fact that the legs are stubbier makes them much more managable, they’re more like seeing a wild rat.
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
I didn’t even know they existed until I had one in my apartment around 5 years ago. Now that I’ve bought a house I see them regularly in my basement.
FarFarAway@startrek.website 4 days ago
Relieved, in this aspect, when I moved backed to land of the giant centipedes. Then, I got a bunch of barn boards to make dyi stuff. One came in on there, ran off, and started living around the back of my house. It was the only one around, so it never reproduced (I hope), but damn thing lived back there for years. Just happy it never decided to come inside.
OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
I’m not really scared of them, but I do have a visceral reaction to them. Something about them makes me want to vomit. Or, maybe it’s a level of fear I don’t recognize because I go from 0 to vomit and wanting to claw my eyes out real quick.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
it’s wild because humans are supposed to have this sort of reaction programmed into us for snakes, but i’m absolutely fine with snakes and even find some of them quite cute!
but anything with long thin legs? incinerate it in nuclear hellfire
nepenthes@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I feel ya. When I find them in the garden, where one expects to find a multitude of bugs, it gives me the heebie jeebies soo bad. It’s def the zillions of legs going mach 9 for me.
Shou@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Texbook phobia.
businessfish@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
all they need to do is stop being so scary and we can be chillin
Barx@hexbear.net 6 days ago
The last point is the important one. If you’re regularly seeing these in your house that means they’ve found a food source: your house is infested with another insect they’re keeping at bay.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
They won’t actually beat back an infestation though. They are too territorial.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 6 days ago
I caught one trying to be in my bathroom and decided to be “nice” by tossing it into my basement.
Down there the entire floor had been sprayed with insect repellent from signs of fleas and roaches, there has been signs of mice and lord knows what else down there too.
2 days later I found it dead having made it all the way to the staircase. Definitely one of the strongest showings in the Gauntlet but not strong enough.
nxdefiant@startrek.website 6 days ago
what the fuck are you gonna do the first time something makes it up the stairs? I hope you have a flamethrower ready.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 6 days ago
That’s so mean :'(
MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Shou@lemmy.world 6 days ago
It’s cute.
derpgon@programming.dev 6 days ago
Look at the cute rollerblades!
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 1 week ago
While centipedes are fine, I’ve always been much more of a milipede fan.
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 6 days ago
ngl, I think millipede is kinda cute. I’m thinking about building a terrarium tank and keep a few of them as pet.
herrcaptain@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
It’s weird how when they have even more legs somehow they become less creepy. I guess it’s because they have to pack them in so tight and it starts to almost become cute.
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 1 week ago
I’ll say it: milipedes are cute.
librejoe@lemmy.world 6 days ago
They are not 100% harmless than can and have bitten humans.
lost_faith@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Side note, do not stomp AT them in bare feet (in an attempt to scare them off). They will attack your toes
Ioughttamow@kbin.run 1 week ago
A few of these lithe fellows and Moria would still be the crowning jewel of the misty mountains
c0smokram3r@midwest.social 1 week ago
Now I’m packing by bugs for the misty mountains 🎶
keepcarrot@hexbear.net 1 week ago
Idk if this helps. I just feel kinda itchy now
Shhalahr@beehaw.org 6 days ago
Silverfish. They eat silverfish, and that is why I am on Team Silverware.
NutWrench@lemmy.world 1 week ago
When you’re a centipede, EVERY day is Leg Day!
rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
The damn scolopendras have left mate of mine permanently scarred. They are the demon spawn of Bill Gates himself.
nieceandtows@programming.dev 1 week ago
They don’t scare you enough? Imagine them as Eldritch abominations.