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[–] copandballtorture@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That fucker on the right is called a "house centipede" and they take years to get to that pictured size. It's a really terrible experience to be using the bathroom and glancing over at the wall and seeing a 2-3" centipede skittering around. They're not very fast, so they're easy enough to kill, but ugh.

[–] edge@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

They’re just little guys, they’re harmless to you.

Just scoop it into a cup with a paper towel as a lid and release it outside.

[–] asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They are disgusting and vile and they should all be destroyed

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago

They are disgusting and vile and they should all be loved and cherished for killing all the actually terrible things in your home.

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago
[–] CommCat@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

the adult ones in my house are huge, like over an inch long, they look scary, but yeah they are harmless.

[–] fox@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bad news: spiders and centipedes that live in your house are the latest of generations that have only ever lived in your house. Putting them outside is basically killing them

[–] InappropriateEmote@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

This is only sorta-kinda true. Depending on your house and the species in question, a lot of spiders and insects you might find in it have just come in from the outside, making their way under door jams or all sorts of not completely sealed cracks and crevices. I often (relatively speaking) capture and toss out wetas in my place that I know just squeezed in from outside. It also doesn't really matter how many generations they've been there as long as it hasn't been so many that they've actually evolved to habitate in your house specifically. What matters in that case is the individual which may have been set up in such a way in your house that yeah, chucking it outside will be a death sentence. But that's really variable depending on the species in question, the conditions outside, where you end up putting it outside (example: out in the open where it will immediately get got by a predator, or in the kind of underbrush it's naturally suited for anyway), and all sorts of other things.

[–] copandballtorture@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

You're welcome to come over and do that

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are beautiful, I never bother em. My cat likes tearing off each of their legs very slowly though screm

[–] TheDeed@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

They're not very fast

They're pretty fast imo

[–] Morbid@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this mf built like a greco-Roman warship

[–] regul@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

Trireme-ass mf

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The MOAR BOOSTERS approach is generally the easiest.

[–] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

the Kerbal Space Program approach to maximum velocity

[–] Utter_Karate@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would freak out if I found either one of these in my apartment.

[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cheetahs are chill. Pose very little threat to humans unless babies are involved.

[–] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

The Leg of Zelda

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

o i hate this

[–] TheBroodian@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I fucking hate house centipedes

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Both are babbies. :)