house centipedes are awesome

[paulxcook]

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My wife and I have some friends who just bought their first house. They have an acre of land and it's fairly rural, so they have lots of spiders to deal with.

I got to thinking: we've been in our house for 1.25 years and I can remember finding maybe one spider the entire time. Plenty of house centipedes, and yeah they're kind of creepy to look at, but they're harmless and do a great job of killing pests, apparently.

 

[CorCentral]

The spiders will kill all those without even thinking, sorry.

If you want me to go into detail on how and why, let me know. I'll get back with you tomorrow.

 

[paulxcook]

Apparently the ones around here won't. I find an occasional started spider web, but never a full one in the house. Outside yes, but not inside.

 

[CorCentral]

Originally posted by: paulxcook
Apparently the ones around here won't. I find an occasional started spider web, but never a full one in the house. Outside yes, but not inside.

Let me grab another beer..............

 

[PurdueRy]

We had a bunch of these before. I would always find them in the basement scurrying about as soon as I turned on the light.

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: CorCentral
The spiders will kill all those without even thinking, sorry.

If you want me to go into detail on how and why, let me know. I'll get back with you tomorrow.

Dunno, maybe it was something in the water, but at my old place when the centipedes moved in the spiders left. Also had fewer armadillo bugs. Now the centipedes aren't exactly cuddly but compared to huge hairy wolf spiders they almost look it. Fuck spiders :|

 

[CorCentral]

Okay, just to make a clean slate here and to have all the naysayers stfu.......

The videos you see like on YouTube..... TARANTULA vs. PRAYING MANTIS, etc! (=BS)

If you take a Black Widow out of it's web, and throw it in a cage with a Scorpion, the Widow would lose hands down!
Now you take a Scorpion and toss it in a Black Widows web and the Scorpion's toast instantly!

Spiders have the upper hand in most instances though. Of course you have the Spider Wasp, and other variances of wasps that hunt web type spiders, that actually bump the web on purpose to drive the spider out, sting/paralyze it, and then seal it in a mud or ground enclosure......... but when it comes down to it, depending on the size of Spider, most Centipedes will be taken down.

Centipedes are hunters, but they are easy prey for most spiders.

 

[magreen]

Cor, I thought you were dead! How are your spiders? Your thread hasn't been updated...

 

[Aharami]

got a bunch of those in my garage. ugly little fuckers. Didnt know what they were and started killing them cuz i hate bugs

 

[CorCentral]

Originally posted by: magreen
Cor, I thought you were dead! How are your spiders? Your thread hasn't been updated...

I updated it tonight Pilgrim.
My main Widow died

 

[dabuddha]

*shudder*

I would go on a stomping spree if I saw centipedes.

 

[tboo]

I live near Tucson & these are the centipedes we have in our area. I wont want one of those living in my house.

 

[SearchMaster]

Interesting - I didn't know they were such prolific hunters.

My parents' last house had a ton of them - you'd generally see them on the ceiling. I don't think I've ever seen one in any other house.

 

[dainthomas]

If my house was infested with those I'd burn it down. Nasty.

 

[Descartes]

I'm in Georgia, and I see those nasty looking things all the time. Very rarely ever in the house though.

I've also dispatched at least a dozen black widows in the garage so far this year. I would normally leave them alone, but I have a dog that likes to eat any webbing it can find.

 

[BassBomb]

Originally posted by: tboo
I live near Tucson & these are the centipedes we have in our area. I wont want one of those living in my house.

holy fuck

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: Descartes
I'm in Georgia, and I see those nasty looking things all the time. Very rarely ever in the house though.

I've also dispatched at least a dozen black widows in the garage so far this year. I would normally leave them alone, but I have a dog that likes to eat any webbing it can find.

I was largely cool with the spiders in my house until some widows moved in. And one came down to say "hi" while I was working on my work bench. Yes, literally 12" in front of me. There was some purchasing of 2 gallons of spray that was used until I stopped seeing widows. Some other spider that I'm okay with managed to survive by hiding out under the table in my patio, but I'm just not cool with bugs that can hurt/kill me. I'd much rather have a preying mantis "problem". (those things are cool)

 

[nixium]

Would these help in taking care of cockroaches?

Not the big, ugly one, just the small ones that run everywhere. If they could, then it would be a great addition to have around.

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: Descartes
I'm in Georgia, and I see those nasty looking things all the time. Very rarely ever in the house though.

I've also dispatched at least a dozen black widows in the garage so far this year. I would normally leave them alone, but I have a dog that likes to eat any webbing it can find.

I was largely cool with the spiders in my house until some widows moved in. And one came down to say "hi" while I was working on my work bench. Yes, literally 12" in front of me. There was some purchasing of 2 gallons of spray that was used until I stopped seeing widows. Some other spider that I'm okay with managed to survive by hiding out under the table in my patio, but I'm just not cool with bugs that can hurt/kill me. I'd much rather have a preying mantis "problem". (those things are cool)

Yeah, I agree. I've had problems with the brown recluse (not in Georgia) and the black widow over the years. The black widow seems infinitely easier to control than the brown recluse, from my experience.

I have been using spray as well, and so far they haven't come back. I can only hope they haven't found somewhere else to go.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Centipedes are the only animal that seriously freak me the fuck out. I dont know what it is, but they gimme da jibblies

 

[Nitemare]

Sorry, but I kill any spider, centipede, flying creature or bug that comes inside my house has forfeited their right to life.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Hmm .... I've been invaded by ants twice where I live, once little tiny ants, and once bigass carpenter ants. I've laid down liquid baits inside and outside and sprayed around the perimeter of the house, seems to work well, but need to apply every 2 months or so ..... I need to get me some Centipedes!

 

[Modelworks]

I don't have a problem with any centipedes or spiders in the house, but I seem to have a cricket problem.
Its common for me to see a couple each week. I have no idea where they are getting in. I just catch them with my hand and toss them out the door.

 

[Spineshank]

Originally posted by: dabuddha
*shudder*

I would go on a stomping spree if I saw centipedes.

Same here. I freak when i see them. Spiders dont bother me at all though.

 

[paulxcook]

Originally posted by: nixium
Would these help in taking care of cockroaches?

Not the big, ugly one, just the small ones that run everywhere. If they could, then it would be a great addition to have around.

I think the info in that 2nd link says they eat them, yes.

Cor, I don't know what to say other than that the spiders in my area must be wussies.