They are cool friendly predators, but my cat is a bigger one.
House Centipedes
Submitted 13 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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s_s@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
renzev@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Imhotep@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I think I’ve figured out why I don’t mind them.
They’re really skittish and will run away when I’m around, and tend to stay on the walls. Chances are you won’t ever touch them by accident.
So I’m fine sharing the house.
Also I never seen more than one at a time. It hardly feels like an invasion
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
That’s a spider orgy.
TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Nope… Didn’t work. I still hate them.
Ibaudia@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The centipedes have learned to draw. Not gonna fool me.
NABDad@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I call them eyelashes.
They are welcome in my home as long as they can find sustenance. My only rule is they are not permitted to shower with me.
Dabundis@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I usually get these little dudes in the summer. I let them be when I can stomach it, but I have this one lamp at my desk pointed up at the wall to give me some indirect light. Occasionally a house centipede will crawl along in front of the light and cast a really long shadow to freak me the hell out.
doctordevice@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Took a lot of getting used to when I moved to the East Coast for grad school. Supposedly they do live in my home state but I can’t recall ever seeing one here. It’s mostly spiders, millipedes, and earwigs where I’m from.
The thing that really freaked me out about centipedes is how absurdly fast they are. Also the one time I watched one crawling above me in bed and then it dropped onto my pillow **what the fuck**.
blackbrook@mander.xyz 5 hours ago
Time to burn your house down!
Nima@leminal.space 11 hours ago
they also hiss. which scared the crap out of me.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
Imagine them fancy opera singing!
smeg@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
Do they his in opera? I’d say imagine they’re little jazz musicians going tsss-t-t-tsss-t-t
borth@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
WTFFFFF
Nima@leminal.space 10 hours ago
its called “Stridulation” and its something a lot of centipedes can do.
scared the crap out of me the first time I heard it when I was trying to put one in a cup and take it outside. lol
lugal@sopuli.xyz 12 hours ago
If they would wear pants…
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
OK, but which direction do the pants open: forwards or up?
lugal@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Asking the real questions
Caesium@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I just saw some this morning! the silly guy was in the middle of the aisle at work so I got him moving so he wouldnt get stepped on :3
celsiustimeline@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
I’ve come around to liking spiders, maybe a day far from now I’ll come around to liking house centipedes. Gross little helpful fuckers.
blackbrook@mander.xyz 5 hours ago
Apparently those two are mortal enemies.
MsPenguinette@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
When I was a kid there wasn’t awareness of house centipedes. I remember my first time seeing one as a kid, it was night time and I was home alone. Some of the most visceral fear of my life.
dmention7@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
That’s honestly why they creep me out the most. Spiders will generally be chilling out in a corner somewhere you expect to see them, doing their own thing, and not moving much unless directly disturbed.
Most of my experiences with centipedes involves them darting out from under a baseboard at night and scaring the shit out of me when I’m only half awake. Then by the time I realize what it was, it’s already scrambled across the floor to disappear under some other piece of furniture.
i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
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!