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[-] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 114 points 3 months ago

Creepy. And I learned something. Reminds me of another comic strip that cracked me up. The gist:

God said to the insects "you may each pick three traits." The millipede said, "I want legs!" The centipede agreed. God nodded. "And for your second trait?" The millipede smiled brightly and said "More legs!" The centipede request the same. God asked for their final request. "More legs!" The millipede shouted smiling even brighter The centipede gave a sinister grin and growled. "Teeth."

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

Millipedes speced all their stat points into beauty

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[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 65 points 3 months ago

Makes me wonder if we ever do meet intelligent aliens will we instantly try to kill them not because we're a tribe based war loving species, but if it's simply because we're so absolutely and deeply repulsed by something so different than us on an instinctual level.

[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 51 points 3 months ago

Have you ever met a Belgian? Same thing

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago
[-] Davel23@fedia.io 20 points 3 months ago

There's two things I can't stand. Intolerance, and Belgians.

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[-] kautau@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Or, as various sci fi stories have laid out, will they immediately try to kill us, because they are an insect based race and we are dealing with drones that only follow basic instinct, and we’d need to commune with the queen or some such to get them to understand that each of our species has a consciousness and free will, and we don’t exist in a hive mind

[-] frezik@midwest.social 26 points 3 months ago

It's fine, we'll train a ten year old prodigy to kill their entire race.

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[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Bold of you to assume there won't be humans trying to fuck them.

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[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 11 points 3 months ago

That's the plot of Starship Troopers.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 62 points 3 months ago

Creepiest house bug ever. I let them be because they eat other bugs.

If you ever see a lot of them you’ve got another problem, that means they have a lot to eat. Could be an infestation of other bugs like roaches or a dead animal in the walls.

[-] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 3 months ago

If you ever see a lot of them you’ve got another problem, that means they have a lot to eat.

But... not for long, so problem solved soon, right? Right?

[-] Landsharkgun@midwest.social 10 points 3 months ago

According to a random comment I saw once, these things will happily eat each other if there's no other bugs to eat. So basically yes.... unless your house has a continuous influx of new bugs.

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[-] LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world 60 points 3 months ago

these mfs are usually a canary in a coal mine. if you start seeing these everywhere in your house, chances are you have roaches.

[-] kureta@lemmy.ml 41 points 3 months ago

If you start seeing canaries everywhere in your coal mine, chances are you have a lethal gas leak. wait what?

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

canaries are gases’ natural predator

[-] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 3 months ago

If you start seeing canaries in your living room, get a CO monitor.

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[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 57 points 3 months ago

Despite the name, no centipede has exactly 100 pairs of legs; number of legs ranges from 15 pairs to 191 pairs, always an odd number. (wikipedia)

wtf is going on with these guys

[-] klemptor@startrek.website 55 points 3 months ago

I mean, I have an odd number of leg pairs. You probably do too?

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 months ago

i mean, our arms are just fucked up legs, so technically we have an even pair of legs.

[-] Syd@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago
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[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 46 points 3 months ago

I got bitten by this hell spawn. I was sleeping and I guess I was stretching my leg and laid my leg on top of this thing.

I have never felt so much pain in my life. It felt like my skin was melting and burning at the same time. For the next few weeks, the bite mark would randomly start to puss and random shots of pain.

I'd rather have roaches. At least with roaches, they don't bite.

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 47 points 3 months ago

Standard house centipedes (I'm pretty sure that's what's in this comic) aren't supposed to have a very painful bite. You may have been bitten by a different kind of centipede, or maybe had an allergic reaction, for your pain to be so severe.

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[-] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 39 points 3 months ago

What kind of insect is that? I can't think of anything with that many legs that eats cockroaches.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Insects have 6 legs. If I had to guess its a centipede drawn with too many legs per segment.

[-] Cypher@lemmy.world 58 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata

Commonly known as a house or carpet centipede.

The drawing is pretty accurate.

[-] Land_Strider@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

I've encountered these guys all my life. They are mostly small skittering puffy-stretches at a glance, but sometimes they can look like their red headed larger and snake-eating relatives at 4-5cm lengths.

They are extremely soft to the touch, as if a very light breeze just brushed off your arm hair. What I didn't know is that they are like cats in this behaviour:

House centipedes have been observed to groom their legs by curling around and grooming them with their forcipules.

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[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I got stung/bit by one of those little bastards once in the shower. Usually they don't bother humans and their mouth stingers(kind of like legs that are turned into venomous fangs for killing other bugs) can't really go deep enough, but I guess this one got motivated once he started drowning and crawled up my leg.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There should be a fifth panel that’s says:

“Your chances are worse when you look like that.”

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

Then there should also be a sixth panel with the "I'm fast as fuck boyyy" meme

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[-] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 27 points 3 months ago

The reality is that these guys won't actually make a big dent in a roach infestation. They are pretty territorial and their population will always scale in proportion to the food supply, so if you have a lot of centipedes, you'll have a fuck ton of roaches.

[-] 3volver@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago

They also eat jumping spiders, which is why I kill them.

[-] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 24 points 3 months ago

Spider is arguably less effective in terms of big-bug-eating, but I would choose spiders over that nightmare fuel any day.

Have you ever seen that thing dead in your sink, all soaked wet? I swear that's can't be something originate from earth.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 28 points 3 months ago

My theory is that when you have too many nightmares in one night and the horror doesn't have anywhere to go, the nightmare takes shape and one of these crawls out of you

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

I hate you for this

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[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"If it's more than 8, it's has sealed it's fate."

[-] degen@midwest.social 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I swear one of my cats can smell these fuckers.

Or they're just noisy on some level, and I don't wanna think about that.

[-] kyden@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

You can hear them run on tile.

I wish I didn’t learn this information first hand while trying to be nice and catch one to put it outside.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I wish I had a couple of these guys. Nothing else I've done has gotten rid of the roaches in this shit-ass apartment. Might as well try more bugs.

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[-] walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 13 points 3 months ago
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