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Maybe if they could wear a suit and say thank you once in a while.
Seriously, they have the arms but they don’t have the cards.
And they horde their rich minerals all to themselves, when they could just ask us to look after it for them. Maybe.
If they just smiled more they’d be so pretty!
They should try to be dapper like Cho’gath.
probably my favorite post for the month:)
These little dudes can move 1.3 feet per second which is absolutely insane
Gonna take a long time to move all their feet
Yeah the trick is you gotta decide which order you’re going with first
Weirdly enough there are studies about how millipedes and centipedes move their feet.
oh yeah my dad told me his mechatronics thesis was about building a robot that has legs and moves like a spider … so, almost centipede. he told me they also looked at centipedes just for reference.
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.
How about knocking first? Rude.
A locust 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. By then I was ready to move out.
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!!!”
one of these creepy bastards got inside of my soap dispenser brush thing for doing the dishes. just threw the entire brush away D=
If they weren’t fast enough, how would they catch the cockroaches?
I can catch a lot of things if I sprint, but I don’t usually sprint from the couch to the kitchen.
I don’t have a phobia of bugs, but centipedes really do make my skin crawl.
I think this is deep in the dna of all mammals from like 100 million years 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.
Because humans inherented the fears from all the mammals before primates
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).
I dunno, silverfish are smaller than flies, but they still give me that revulsion response.
Me too. What’s up with that? Gnats too.
I think they move too smoothly. I think it’s maybe a combination of the “ew, tiny things are parasites” and the “ew, smooth-moving things are snakes” responses, even though neither of those is appropriate for the silverfish itself. I think that’s part of what happens with the house millipedes, too.
Wish I hadn’t boost the wife cheating with a centipede copy paste for this thread
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.
I love house spiders
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))
Be the change you want to see! Or post on !entomology@mander.xyz ;)
Good idea. I may start
onesomething 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.Ha, for everything we’ve lost from there, we have redundancies here.
Thank you very much! I obviously still have a lot of looking around to do.
Why wouldnt posting images work?
Disabled on lemm.ee due to abuse I believe, gotta upload it somewhere else and post the link.
Oh i see :/
Oh, I don’t quite understand fully yet. I was able to post images and gifs in one place, not in others. So, I don’t think it’s a lemm.ee issue but maybe wherever I’m posting, there are different limitations. When I tried to post an image here, it failed.
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 :)
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.
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.
I will catch and release spiders outside but centipedes all get the boot. They are just too fast
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.
They should care! It could be a source of selection pressure
yeah would be willing to believe people are more tolerant of e.g. jumping spiders than other kinds
I like web spiders better. They stay in their spot, I stay out of their spot.
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.
It was not a house centipede but a regular wild one though.
What Kind of animal is this?
House centipede
does it bite
The centipedes at my mom’s house def bite, it’s very painful. Sometimes you need to go to the hospital.
Basically never walk around my mom’s house barefoot.
Have you considered cleaning out the house and closing all the gaps?
I know a lot of these insect threads tend to disagree, but sealing a house and only letting in air through very fine meshes is 100% possible.
Every time I bring this up people start taking like spiders and bugs can phase through solid walls of wood and caulk.
While I have no understanding for that, I do however understand that poverty or mental or physical health issues can make it difficult to get your home to not be a gappy mess. Especially as renters have no authority to do that.
My reluctance isn’t that this isn’t doable, but the amount of effort it would take to inspect every external surface for small gaps. Cracks, for reasons of personal head cannon, seem much easier to identify. Both the attic and crawl space require a fair amount of persistence in tight, dark spaces with not the best of footing and air quality conditions that are tolerable in limit situations without mitigating equipment.
The roof is also another tricky spot. Definitely worth it for critter sized openings, but I’m not sure I can pull it off for bug sized.
With that said, I think most people will get a lot of bang for the time if they inspect doors, windows and search for cracks on the sidewalk along the foundation.
It is harmless to people
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)
These mother fuckers would sometimes drop on me and my father. Creepy fast little fuckers man
