Girl. I threw a mouse down the trash chute last week. You are way overthinking this.

Anonymous wrote:We have an agreement. They stay in the basement and maybe the ground floor and I won’t them down. But if they show themselves on the second floor, they are fair game.

BTW, you can’t just leave them in the kitchen sink. They can’t get out. You have to relocate or squash them.

RIGHT! This is OP and I couldn't just leave him in there. So I moved him outside and then immediately had some regret because can you IMAGINE being a bug that lived their whole life without other predators inside a house and then you go out into the dark night etc? Next time am sending to basement ha.

Never saw a live or dead cockroach in our DC nor Bethesda house or yard.

Or a centipede. Just in the tub as it came out of drain. No food in there

We have an agreement. They stay in the basement and maybe the ground floor and I won’t them down. But if they show themselves on the second floor, they are fair game.

BTW, you can’t just leave them in the kitchen sink. They can’t get out. You have to relocate or squash them.

Anonymous wrote:Get a grip everyone.
Most homes do not have roaches inside them nor black widows.
Spiders are common by freshwater lakes or rainy places (England) where there is a large ongoing supply of insects.

My house does not have undesirable insects BECAUSE we leave the house centipedes alone to to their job; same as we put up a bat house in the tree and enjoy fewer mosquitoes.


Or, you could also just spray all kinds of poisons all over the places your children live. That works too.

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Anonymous wrote:Not gross! BENEFICIAL.

Hey bub, mind if I crash here and eat your roaches before they despoil your nice clean house?

Thanks for this. I was hungry, but now my appetite is gone.

No need for ozempic when there are disgusting close-up pictures of insects and their horrific legs.

It’s kind of cute. I marvel at the complexity and survivorship of nature. I’m a kill nothing tree hugger.

I'm OP and I'm kind of the same. Live and let live as long as you won't eat my children lol!

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Anonymous wrote:Not gross! BENEFICIAL.

Hey bub, mind if I crash here and eat your roaches before they despoil your nice clean house?

Thanks for this. I was hungry, but now my appetite is gone.

No need for ozempic when there are disgusting close-up pictures of insects and their horrific legs.

It’s kind of cute. I marvel at the complexity and survivorship of nature. I’m a kill nothing tree hugger.

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Anonymous wrote:I doubt he lived his whole life in your house unless you have a big infestation.

Putting him out at night was helpful. More cover from birds and he can explore without getting dried out.

From wiki:
"Unlike its shorter-legged but larger tropical cousins, S. coleoptrata can live its entire life inside a building, usually on the ground levels of homes. While many homeowners may be unsettled by house centipedes due to their speed and appearance, they pose little to no threat towards humans, and are often beneficial as they catch other, more harmful pests, such as cockroaches."

The operative word here is "CAN" (live its entire life inside).

They come from somewhere first. They don't spontaneously generate/spawn into a house like a Minecraft animal. Therefore they have to.be capable of surviving outside before they get inside.

They don’t come from other house centipedes doing the deed in your house?

How did the first house centipedes get inside?

Like other insects that live in homes they could have gotten carried in in belongings.

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Anonymous wrote:I doubt he lived his whole life in your house unless you have a big infestation.

Putting him out at night was helpful. More cover from birds and he can explore without getting dried out.

From wiki:
"Unlike its shorter-legged but larger tropical cousins, S. coleoptrata can live its entire life inside a building, usually on the ground levels of homes. While many homeowners may be unsettled by house centipedes due to their speed and appearance, they pose little to no threat towards humans, and are often beneficial as they catch other, more harmful pests, such as cockroaches."

Also, they live up to 7 years! Crazy.

Didn’t know that. I figured it had a short life cycle.

At least it wasn’t a huge Hawaiian centipede Op! Those bite and are disgusting in your house, under brush and leaves, and send off an odor when dead to attract more!

Those can really hurt you or an animal. They’re as big and thick as a bratwurst w fast legs and pinchers!

Anonymous wrote:I woke up once years ago with a house centipede crawling on my cheek. I kill them all after that.

Spider bites leave big welts for days too. Usually bite you whilst your sleep.
We always had those smelly yellow spider repellent strips at our lake cottage.

If I found one crawling up from the sink pipes I’d kill it and wash it back down. No thanks. Plenty of prehistoric bugs out there.

Get a grip everyone.
Most homes do not have roaches inside them nor black widows.
Spiders are common by freshwater lakes or rainy places (England) where there is a large ongoing supply of insects.

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Anonymous wrote:I doubt he lived his whole life in your house unless you have a big infestation.

Putting him out at night was helpful. More cover from birds and he can explore without getting dried out.

From wiki:
"Unlike its shorter-legged but larger tropical cousins, S. coleoptrata can live its entire life inside a building, usually on the ground levels of homes. While many homeowners may be unsettled by house centipedes due to their speed and appearance, they pose little to no threat towards humans, and are often beneficial as they catch other, more harmful pests, such as cockroaches."

The operative word here is "CAN" (live its entire life inside).

They come from somewhere first. They don't spontaneously generate/spawn into a house like a Minecraft animal. Therefore they have to.be capable of surviving outside before they get inside.

They don’t come from other house centipedes doing the deed in your house?

How did the first house centipedes get inside?

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Anonymous wrote:I woke up once years ago with a house centipede crawling on my cheek. I kill them all after that.

She was trying be your friend and then you squished her?

How dare she not ask for consent first

I have toddlers.

Know what kills toddlers? - Black widow spiders. House centipedes eat Black widows.

Our other venomous spider in the DMG is the Brown Recluse: its venom is necrotizing ( do not google !).

Yep: centipedes eat those too.

In fact: they also eat termites. And cockroaches (ew!). And bedbugs (not that we ever had these). In fact, we have never had any bugs (except ants. Centipedes don’t eat those sadly).

The centipedes can stay. They get moved to the garage or basement if they present a nuisance.