Into the vacuum they go!
They are good, they eat spiders and other bugs
The spiders go into the vacuum too! They can eat them there.
Wait, spider bro keeps away other bugs too.
Vacuum. Bugs go in the vacuum.
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Bugs you can SEE go in the vacuum. You have to train the rest to hide better.
Thanks for the good laugh.
Be a lot cooler if you put em outside instead
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We get these:
Tarantula Hawk Wasps. Fortunately, they only attack tarantulas, unless you antagonize them.
I suppose they're better than tarantulas... Ugh
Tarantulas are wonderful little creatures. I'd have one as a pet, but I don't think they should be kept as pets.
Some are kept as pets but people should be informed about what it takes for a tarantula to be kept as a pet and should be informed about that
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They're beautiful!
The bright golden wings contrasted with the black body is very striking. I take a minute to admire them when I see one.
They absolutely do NOT only attack tarantulas. They will sting the ever living fuck out of you, and have one of the most painful stings of any insect on the planet.
I have been stung by one and it hurts like a mother fucker.
Those wasps are dead. They don’t just chill like that.
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If bugs stay out of my way i let them live. When they get in my way i can't overcome my level of creeped out and things go wrong.
I try, i really do.
you're helping them evolve. you kill the ones you see, while the smart ones hide until you are asleep and then crawl over your body at night.
How do I unread what I just read. YELP!
They do crawl over your body but it's just because they're tucking you in and giving you some good night smooches.
I live in an attic. There are lots of creepy crawlies. House centipedes are fren despite lack of fren-shape; I pet.
Assume that for every one house centipede you see, there are a hundred other nasties they eat living in your walls. Go my fren: munch!
House centipedes. They have a lot of fast delicate legs and are quite creepy. I think they eat spiders.
These little guys can live for up to 7 years so be sweet to them.
I look at them like this: If a company made a little robot that does it's best to stay hidden from your view, crawls through the innards of your home in search of spiders, bed bugs, termites, and ants, it would probably cost thousands of dollars.
In my experience, I see them an awful lot for something trying to stay hidden. I get them in my basement and they inevitably come upstairs. My cats try to eat them when they come upstairs. I also have spiders in my basement. So they aren't doing the best job at eating all the spiders.
I moved in (and quickly out of) a place infested with critters I had never even heard of (wtf is a carpet beetle). The day I moved in, there was a house centipede and a sizeable spider in the bathub, fighting to the death. I didn't know which side to take so I left them alone. I came back later to find them both ostensibly dead and not moving. I came back even later to find the centipede gone but the spider still dead. I felt like David Attenborough. I still think about those lil gladiators sometimes
Every centipede you see equals ~700 dead spiders that aren't living in your house laying eggs and biting you. You'd have WAY more spiders without them
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imagine my surprise when i learned they live in chicago after moving here.
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I accidentally picked one up once. I had just stepped into the shower, naturally didn't have my glasses on, and saw a piece of what I thought was lint. I picked up the lint to put it in the garbage, saw that it was squirming then threw it against the shower door so hard it splattered.
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House centipedes are always welcome in my house. They usually stay out of sight, eat other bugs, and can't really harm humans. Win, win, win as far as I'm concerned.
It also depends on the species of centipede. In Hawaii they get big (6-14 inches) and can absolutely pierce your skin, and they are FAST. Like, when you try to stomp them they scurry out of the way and attack your foot sort of fast.
Those are hawaiian toes fo sho
That's not a house centipede. That's a Fuck You Centipede.
and the stings hurt substantially more than bee stings, if you have ever felt those-- and those are bad.
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Yeah, those bugs are scary, but they eat other bugs. They are still scary though
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House centipedes are creepy looking things, but they are nocturnal so you don't really seem them while they're going about their job of taking out the other creepy crawlies.
These guys give me a fright whenever I see them - especially out of the corner of my eye. I never kill them, though, because they are totally harmless to people and they kill actually nasty bugs.
They've been around for 300 million years. They'll be fine looooooooong after we're gone.
Engrossed saying that they eat other bugs is completely missing the fact that these things only show up if there are other bugs to eat.
If you spot one of these mfers it means you have a pest problem you're completely unaware of. It's the same with a lot of house spiders too. If you see a bug predator that means you have a lot of bug prey
it can also just mean that you have a bunch of holes in your house, allowing anything to just waltz right in if it catches their fancy
these fuckin house centipedes keep coming in through the electrical socket or the gap next to the closet, then getting lost in my bedroom until i vacuum them up. istg there are 5 or 6 of them every day, i can see them wandering around outside my windowsill and two minutes later they're running around on my ceiling
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Ungodly fast things. But I have no problem with them in the basement, it's everywhere else that bothers me.
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i am fine with anything except cockroaches. Those get genocided
What about bed bugs?
They usually don't move in on their own, only with a moving crew
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House centipedes will eat any intruders in your house, even spiders.
They do not leave noticeable poop either, so they are very clean. They may leave less tasty parts of their prey if they are full, tho.
They prefer darker and damper places than spiders, so if you keep dark and damp corner spots near the floor, like plant pots with humid soil in a corner, or a cool basement, you can reduce the chances of them eating your house spiders that prefer higher locations.
That way, your spiders will be safer, letting them eat the moths, flies, and mosquitoes that house centipedes have a harder time catching, while house centipedes will be more likely to stick to to silverfish, cockroaches, ants, termites, and the like.
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