i just wanna live
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usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
These little dudes can move 1.3 feet per second which is absolutely insane
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Gonna take a long time to move all their feet
casmael@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yeah the trick is you gotta decide which order you’re going with first
lena@gregtech.eu 2 months ago
Conversion from freedom units 🦅🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅 to metric 🌍🌏 please
philthi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
396mm/s.
BakerBagel@midwest.social 2 months ago
No
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 months ago
40cm/s or 1.4km/h
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Roughly 31 degrees centimeters
Gerudo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I don’t have a phobia of bugs, but centipedes really do make my skin crawl.
tacobellhop@midwest.social 2 months ago
I think this is deep in the dna of all mammals from like 100 million years ago
nomy@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I have a strong dislike of centipedes as well. One time years ago I had a terrible dream that a large centipede (one of those big jungle ones) was crawling all over my body. As it raced down my arm I slapped at it, with a jolt of pain my arm went instantly numb as it bit me.
I startled myself awake to realize I was laying on my arm and it had gone completely asleep and was numb. Still one of the scariest dreams I’ve ever had haha.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 months ago
What? Why would it be? I think humans are scared of anything that surprises them or that they cannot immediately understand what it’ll do. But why centipedes in general? I’ve never had any fear of them, unlike other arthropods that moved more erratically and faster.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Centipedes are scary because they have so many legs and they scurry very fast with incredible agility. In general I think we feel a revulsion to small critters with that kind of speed and agility. But if they’re too small (fly sized or smaller) then it’s more annoyance than revulsion.
The many legs thing is a real mystery though! I think it might be some kind of proxy for venomous critters, as spiders and centipedes have more legs than insects and also tend to be more venomous (apart from some Hymenopterans).
monotremata@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I dunno, silverfish are smaller than flies, but they still give me that revulsion response.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Wish I hadn’t boost the wife cheating with a centipede copy paste for this thread
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I said this the last time this was posted and I’m saying it again
“THEN MAYBE DON’T MOVE SO FUCKING FAST IT ACTIVATES MY FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE!!!”
kieron115@startrek.website 2 months ago
one of these creepy bastards got inside of my soap dispenser brush thing for doing the dishes. just threw the entire brush away D=
nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 2 months ago
Sometimes I try to imagine a giant version running around in a proportionally fast speed. That really activates my fight or flight response
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Size of a bus, thundering down the freeway at 450 miles an hour
ulterno@programming.dev 2 months ago
If they weren’t fast enough, how would they catch the cockroaches?
Comment105@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I can catch a lot of things if I sprint, but I don’t usually sprint from the couch to the kitchen.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I used to live in an apartment they sometimes showed up in and if I went to take a shower and one of them was in the tub, I would leave. The bathroom was occupied.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
A locus flew into my bedroom one summer night. Large, brown, scuttling winged thing with the mass of a tennis ball (exaggeration).
I quietly exited the room and slept in the bathtub. I carefully went one-by-one through my things during the day but I could never locate it, only hear it buzzing somewhere.
I slept in the bathtub for three nights before I my roommate came and flushed it out.
Jerkface@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How about knocking first? Rude.
FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In a related story: I met with my new housecleaning service a few days ago and told them I had one very special request: DO NOT DISTURB THE SPIDERS IN OUR BEDROOM!! They are my mosquito-munching pets; just mop the floor under them.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I love house spiders
Bonus@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I miss r/WhatsThisBug
:(
Also, being able to post images, etc. (guess I am starting to be able to on instances I have joined (just got here in recent weeks))
fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Be the change you want to see! Or post on !entomology@mander.xyz ;)
Bonus@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Good idea. I may start one at some point but I don’t know anything about bugs so I learned a lot over there. All those ID subs were great. Thanks for the entomology suggestion. I’ll definitely check it out.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Why wouldnt posting images work?
missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Disabled on lemm.ee due to abuse I believe.
flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Are you on iNaturalist yet? It’s similar in that you can try to identify all kinds of organisms that get uploaded and you never run out of new ones :)
Bonus@lemm.ee 2 months ago
No, I guess those subs I slowly got interested in but I really haven’t been proactive about looking for other sources. I’ll definitely check it out. Thanks.
cute_noker@feddit.dk 2 months ago
That bug has a voice when I read it in my head, and it is creepy as hell
notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They are fascinating little creatures. They have a bunch of stripes on them, even across their legs. They eat dangerous house pests. They are venomous, but their “bites” are less irritating than a mosquito bite. They also don’t technically bite, they envenomate using two modified legs.
muhyb@programming.dev 2 months ago
I got stung by one of these once when I was staying at my high-school dormitory which was in the woods and away from city. Apparently it crawled into my slippers while I was sleeping so I had not idea this was going to happen. I wore my slippers and felt a certain pain afterwards. I still remember the hole it put into my foot.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
my slovenly ass picked up my dirty t-shirt off the floor in Hawaii and some 30-cm monster came flying out and disappeared underneath the china cabinet, not sure why there was a china cabinet. took me awhile and some soothing from my unflappable lover to decide if I should be really freaking out.
muhyb@programming.dev 2 months ago
That’s huge. I’m glad there is nothing like that here. Did you learn what was it?
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Step 1: Obtain Cat
Step 2: Show the cat your roach infestation
Step 3: ???
Step 4:
Profit?MEOW?(Good for getting rid of mice, doesn’t do much against roaches… 🤷♂️ At least the cat is warm to hold when I’m sad)
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
What Kind of animal is this?
2910000@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They should care! It could be a source of selection pressure
aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 2 months ago
yeah would be willing to believe people are more tolerant of e.g. jumping spiders than other kinds
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I like web spiders better. They stay in their spot, I stay out of their spot.
dditty@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I will catch and release spiders outside but centipedes all get the boot. They are just too fast
AsheHole@lemmy.world 2 months ago
When I found out that these guys ate spiders as a kid I was super upset I needed to pick sides in the bug war. I chose spiders specifically because I didn’t trust anything that ran away from me that fast. The spiders didn’t have anything to hide.
Zidane@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
These mother fuckers would sometimes drop on me and my father. Creepy fast little fuckers man
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My basement spiders get them. I love my basement spiders.
jaschen@lemm.ee 2 months ago
When I first moved to Taiwan, I rented an Airbnb for 3.months to find my footing in the city.
One night I slipped into bed and felt the most painful bite I have ever felt in my life. My entire leg then proceeds to swell up and puss on the site where the centipede bit.
I would rather have the cockroach.
JehovasThickness@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I saw my first house centipede yesterday. It was kinda cute.
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
what animal is that?
JehovasThickness@lemmy.world 2 months ago
House centipede
stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I’ve had spiders and stuff but never a centipede
OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Every time i see one I have the intense urge to vomit.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Mfers expecting evolution to happen in direct observable scales…
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Now I have Good Charlotte playing in my head.
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Same little guy. Same. Not the eating cockroaches tho, thanks but thats gross.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’M PARANOID ABOUT THE PEOPLE I MEET
LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Instead of fumigation, can you breed them, release them in a house to kill all the cockroaches, then lure them back into their mobile home with food?
yesman@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe if they could wear a suit and say thank you once in a while.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Seriously, they have the arms but they don’t have the cards.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
And they horde their rich minerals all to themselves, when they could just ask us to look after it for them. Maybe.
BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
If you smiled more you’d be so pretty!
Comment105@lemm.ee 2 months ago
They should try to be dapper like Cho’gath.
notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world 2 months ago
probably my favorite post for the month:)