HOUSE CENTIPEDE.

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I've never seen anything like this my effing life. He is the size of my EAR. I've only had the little guys in the past. I sprayed it with ammonia nd it was GONE before I opened my eyes, like, lightening fast. No idea where it is now...do you think the ammonia could still kill it? I KNOW some of it got on him.

It probably went up to hide in your pillow and only comes out at night from now on.

Wow. That may be the funniest thing I've ever heard. You should right for NBC primetime.

House centipedes are just about the scariest thing on this planet. I get them all the time here and they are so freaky and they move unnaturally fast. *shudder* They creep me out a lot.

No idea about the ammonia.

Thanks, but I can't shake the feeling you meant it sarcastically.

lol. I'm sorry. I pretty much have a pathological fear of these things and I sat out on the porch for two hours today, now I'm in my bedroom. I need to have A LOT more coffee before I have the stones to go out there and deal with him.

NBC could use some new writers tho,

Those things creep me out.

Don't worry! I hate those creatures as well.

True that.

where i live, we don't have house centipedes, we have wolf-spiders & hobo-spiders .
creepy little bastards that don't make & stay in webs, but are of that type that crawl around.
Had one crawl on my leg once and it scared the crap out of me. They're relatively big .

wellll, actually hobo spiders DO make funnel webs, but most of the time when i see them, it's one scuttling around the house & not in a web. & they are QUICK.

hobo


wolf

Here we have centipedes and these things that are like a mix of a cricket and a spider.

Look like spiders but can jump like a cricket.

camel cricket AKA German cricket? Those things are awful when it is damp and humid. ugh

THEY BITE.
They are tuff in their own right too.

My daughter(step) once caught one in a mason jar and approached me from behind and said" I have a present for you" with hands behind back.
She knew my weakness!

I have a special mason jar with a schrader valve that I incorporated in the top lid for my amatuer science experiments.
So I pulled a 500 micron vacuum on the jar with the centipede inside ,and it didnt faze the creature for two minutes.
WOW
I have a 50 micron vacuum pump and I can sublimate ice cubes in this jar......... Another words the ice cubes dance around whilst boiling into a gas under this condition.

(Pump is used for the evacuation of refrigeration and air conditioning equipment.)





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I just saw one run across the main living room floor and under the couch.

If it were daytime I'd probably grab a vacuum, start screaming like a maniac, and declare war, but it's the middle of the night which gives the creature from hell plenty of time to travel and relocate before I can deal with it. It was running away from my own part of the house but still, it's close enough to make me uneasy. I wish I hadn't walked out there at that particular moment. A few seconds later and it would have already been under the couch and I would still be happily ignorant of its existence.

Oh God, we have those filthy concubines of Satan here in the Pacific Northwest, too! I grew up in an older house, and so wolf spiders were always crawling somewhere on the carpet during the warmer seasons. And as a kid, I loved playing on the floor - and always... ALWAYS(!) had my eye out for them!! !! !! !! ! Just being reminded of them by your post brought back some uncomfortable memories.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

yeah, i live in the Pacific Northwest too

Ewwww. I used to live in the Northwest, and I had my nasty share of those hobos. They are sickening. I always give towels a shake and search before i use them, because once I pulled one and there was a massive hobo on it waiting for me. Imagine if I'd have used it! And once one landed on my shoulder. I had to do the dance of shame in front of guests.

Now in Turkey, we have those house centipedes. NASTY creatures. The first time I saw one I flipped out because it was so alien and disgusting. Worse than a spider in some ways. How do they move all those legs? And they're venomous!
Now, we do get spiders, unfortunately. Also scorpions. Those are fun to play with. They aren't a very aggressive species.
I saw a camel spider once, and screamed. So large and fast.