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[–] 105 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

Into the vacuum they go!

They are good, they eat spiders and other bugs

The spiders go into the vacuum too! They can eat them there.

Wait, spider bro keeps away other bugs too.

Vacuum. Bugs go in the vacuum.

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  • [–] 82 points 1 month ago (19 children)

    We get these:

    Tarantula Hawk Wasps. Fortunately, they only attack tarantulas, unless you antagonize them.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I suppose they're better than tarantulas... Ugh

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Tarantulas are wonderful little creatures. I'd have one as a pet, but I don't think they should be kept as pets.

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    [–] 55 points 1 month ago* (6 children)

    If bugs stay out of my way i let them live. When they get in my way i can't overcome my level of creeped out and things go wrong.

    I try, i really do.

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  • [–] 59 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    you're helping them evolve. you kill the ones you see, while the smart ones hide until you are asleep and then crawl over your body at night.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    How do I unread what I just read. YELP!

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  • [–] 36 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    They do crawl over your body but it's just because they're tucking you in and giving you some good night smooches.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    I live in an attic. There are lots of creepy crawlies. House centipedes are fren despite lack of fren-shape; I pet.

    Assume that for every one house centipede you see, there are a hundred other nasties they eat living in your walls. Go my fren: munch!

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  • [–] 38 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    House centipedes. They have a lot of fast delicate legs and are quite creepy. I think they eat spiders.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    These little guys can live for up to 7 years so be sweet to them.

    I look at them like this: If a company made a little robot that does it's best to stay hidden from your view, crawls through the innards of your home in search of spiders, bed bugs, termites, and ants, it would probably cost thousands of dollars.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    In my experience, I see them an awful lot for something trying to stay hidden. I get them in my basement and they inevitably come upstairs. My cats try to eat them when they come upstairs. I also have spiders in my basement. So they aren't doing the best job at eating all the spiders.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 month ago

    I moved in (and quickly out of) a place infested with critters I had never even heard of (wtf is a carpet beetle). The day I moved in, there was a house centipede and a sizeable spider in the bathub, fighting to the death. I didn't know which side to take so I left them alone. I came back later to find them both ostensibly dead and not moving. I came back even later to find the centipede gone but the spider still dead. I felt like David Attenborough. I still think about those lil gladiators sometimes

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    [–] 22 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    I accidentally picked one up once. I had just stepped into the shower, naturally didn't have my glasses on, and saw a piece of what I thought was lint. I picked up the lint to put it in the garbage, saw that it was squirming then threw it against the shower door so hard it splattered.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (16 children)

    House centipedes are always welcome in my house. They usually stay out of sight, eat other bugs, and can't really harm humans. Win, win, win as far as I'm concerned.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    It also depends on the species of centipede. In Hawaii they get big (6-14 inches) and can absolutely pierce your skin, and they are FAST. Like, when you try to stomp them they scurry out of the way and attack your foot sort of fast.

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    [–] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    House centipedes are creepy looking things, but they are nocturnal so you don't really seem them while they're going about their job of taking out the other creepy crawlies.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    These guys give me a fright whenever I see them - especially out of the corner of my eye. I never kill them, though, because they are totally harmless to people and they kill actually nasty bugs.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Yeah, those bugs are scary, but they eat other bugs. They are still scary though

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    [–] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Engrossed saying that they eat other bugs is completely missing the fact that these things only show up if there are other bugs to eat.

    If you spot one of these mfers it means you have a pest problem you're completely unaware of. It's the same with a lot of house spiders too. If you see a bug predator that means you have a lot of bug prey

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    it can also just mean that you have a bunch of holes in your house, allowing anything to just waltz right in if it catches their fancy

    these fuckin house centipedes keep coming in through the electrical socket or the gap next to the closet, then getting lost in my bedroom until i vacuum them up. istg there are 5 or 6 of them every day, i can see them wandering around outside my windowsill and two minutes later they're running around on my ceiling

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    [–] 12 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Ungodly fast things. But I have no problem with them in the basement, it's everywhere else that bothers me.

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    [–] 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    i am fine with anything except cockroaches. Those get genocided

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    House centipedes will eat any intruders in your house, even spiders.
    They do not leave noticeable poop either, so they are very clean. They may leave less tasty parts of their prey if they are full, tho.
    They prefer darker and damper places than spiders, so if you keep dark and damp corner spots near the floor, like plant pots with humid soil in a corner, or a cool basement, you can reduce the chances of them eating your house spiders that prefer higher locations.
    That way, your spiders will be safer, letting them eat the moths, flies, and mosquitoes that house centipedes have a harder time catching, while house centipedes will be more likely to stick to to silverfish, cockroaches, ants, termites, and the like.

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