How do you deal with house centipedes?

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Mayne

Mayne

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my basement apartment is infested with these creepy crawlies. I don't give a fuck myself, but my nephew and sister are having nightmares...apparently they think its okay to sleep in my bed like i'm not infested with them myself. Little do they know I just don't care and don't cry about it..my bed is on the floor for crying out loud.
 
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There's only like 1 or 2 running around the place I live. Don't see them for days/weeks at a time. They still creep me out.

I used to hate them and killed at least one. Now, I let them be. They supposedly eat the other insects including spiders. Spiders are a damn scourge. I let a spider or two run wild for months, it left a huge mess of spider webs all over the place.
 
Mayne

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Imp said:
There's only like 1 or 2 running around the place I live. Don't see them for days/weeks at a time. They still creep me out.

I used to hate them and killed at least one. Now, I let them be. They supposedly eat the other insects including spiders. Spiders are a damn scourge. I let a spider or two run wild for months, it left a huge mess of spider webs all over the place.
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yeah I read about that too. Seems like a good insect to have in the house. But try explaining that to people that are deathly afraid of insects.
 
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cbrunny

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you can get powder that kills them. I think it's ground up glass or something like that. shreds them from the inside out.
 
Linux23

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i don't think they are centipedes. i forget the name, but they like damp and dark places, like a basement.
 
umbrella39

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Make tiny bikes for them with 200 peddles, they tire the fuck out very fast. And then....... whack!
 
Mayne

Mayne

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I think I will just deal with these little buggers for another month. I'm moving out of this shit hole anyways.
 
Imp

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Mayne said:
yeah I read about that too. Seems like a good insect to have in the house. But try explaining that to people that are deathly afraid of insects.
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I don't blame them. Those centipedes love running across the room with all 100 legs out of nowhere. Still beats the spider. That piece of shit decided to drop a web and repel down from the ceiling one day.
 
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If you have access to a yard - start a compost pile/bin, The pile will be more attractive to bugs than your house.

If you don't actually want compost for planting, you also don't have to actually do any work to turn/water it. It will still break down, it will just take a long time.
 
Mayne

Mayne

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Cozarkian said:
If you have access to a yard - start a compost pile/bin, The pile will be more attractive to bugs than your house.

If you don't actually want compost for planting, you also don't have to actually do any work to turn/water it. It will still break down, it will just take a long time.
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I think i'll just deal with my sister/nephew sleeping on my bed when i'm not here...not sure why they think my matress is immune though :shrug:
 
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Mayne said:
I think i'll just deal with my sister/nephew sleeping on my bed when i'm not here...not sure why they think my matress is immune though :shrug:
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They probably assume insects try to avoid you just like the rest of us.
 
Red Squirrel

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Holy crap, centipedes down south look insane. That looks like the product of a horror flick.

Get the oddball one here, but they don't look like that. What I seem to get more is earwigs though, I find them everywhere, they can squeeze through door seals. I just kill them as I see them.

My mom freaked right out when she saw one and said I should get an exterminator, but it's not really bad enough that I want to spend money on it. I do worry the cat may eat them and get sick, but she does not seem interested in them.
 
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Mike64

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Red Squirrel said:
Holy crap, centipedes down south look insane. That looks like the product of a horror flick.

Get the oddball one here, but they don't look like that. What I seem to get more is earwigs though, I find them everywhere, they can squeeze through door seals. I just kill them as I see them.

My mom freaked right out when she saw one and said I should get an exterminator, but it's not really bad enough that I want to spend money on it. I do worry the cat may eat them and get sick, but she does not seem interested in them.
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They're not venomous, why would your cat get sick from eating them?

Personally, I think the one pictured in this thread looks really cool, but then I'm not even remotely "bug"-phobic. I'll admit that tarantulas and other large spiders (but especially the "hairy" ones), don't do much for me, but I think even they look kind of cool, as long as I'm doing the looking through some sort of impenetrable barrier like plate glass or wire mesh, or at a healthy distance.:D
 
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Gunbuster

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They like damp locations. Dry the joint out and you'll have less or they wont get to be big daddy size.
 
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I used to have them hanging around my bathroom area. I'd see 2 or 3 a month but in the general area of the bathroom or connecting bedroom.

It turned out I had a leak on a water connection behind my bathtub. Dripping water that was making some framing wood wet behind it.

Once I fixed the leak they went away. They hang out where there is a water source. So you most likely have leaking water somewhere in your home. Maybe a pipe or a basement that water leaks into, or even a leaky roof.
 
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