It’s their suddenness that freaks me out. I had been sitting on my couch for two hours the other night when one scuttled out from beneath my feet!
this is why i respect web spinning spiders and jumping spiders (despite the name).
web spinners just spin their webs and sit there, they’re in their lane and flourishing.
jumping spiders are smart enough to recognize that we are gods compared to them, and that we probably won’t appreciate them making sudden fast movements.
They don’t scare you enough? Imagine them as Eldritch abominations.
Idk if this helps. I just feel kinda itchy now
While I know they’re harmless that has not stopped from committing war crimes against one that found its way to my shower.
While centipedes are fine, I’ve always been much more of a milipede fan.
ngl, I think millipede is kinda cute. I’m thinking about building a terrarium tank and keep a few of them as pet.
It’s weird how when they have even more legs somehow they become less creepy. I guess it’s because they have to pack them in so tight and it starts to almost become cute.
I’ll say it: milipedes are cute.
You know, until you posted this comic I never really put it together that millipedes are generally not predators. I guess that also explains why I’ve always instinctively found them less scary than centipedes.
Yep, millipedes are chill and mostly munch on dead plant material. Centipedes, on the other hand, are carnivorous little demons straight from a nightmare.
Centipedes with legs? Believe it or not, straight to Dark Souls
YOU DIED
Limousine spider.
They also appear to be smart, aggressive, and territorial. I have been chased by several. And I have run away with great haste.
Odd, I’ve had several in my room in my last place, but they didn’t seem territorial or aggressive to humans. Sometimes too close I’d worry I’d hurt it but other than that…
Well I guess sleep is optional tonight
Limousine spider. Great! I’ll never forget that anymore for life. Haha
Steal it just like I did.
A few of these lithe fellows and Moria would still be the crowning jewel of the misty mountains
Now I’m packing my bugs for the misty mountains 🎶
I would far rather the spiders in my house eat these things.
Why not both?
Straight up I leave Wolf Spiders alive for this goal.
I don’t think house spider eat cockroaches. I would worship them if they could.
I don’t think they can. Once a centipede is of decent size I think it’s much stronger than the average house Spider. Australia notwithstanding.
Can confirm that our house spiders are pretty tough. A car ran off the road and into the front wall of my house spider last year and it barely left a mark. We still live here.
Im assuming the spider is your landlord.
A house centipede is just 4 spiders in a trench coat.
I like them just the way they are.
It’s cute.
Look at the cute rollerblades!
I’m not really scared of them, but I do have a visceral reaction to them. Something about them makes me want to vomit. Or, maybe it’s a level of fear I don’t recognize because I go from 0 to vomit and wanting to claw my eyes out real quick.
it’s wild because humans are supposed to have this sort of reaction programmed into us for snakes, but i’m absolutely fine with snakes and even find some of them quite cute!
but anything with long thin legs? incinerate it in nuclear hellfire
Texbook phobia.
I feel ya. When I find them in the garden, where one expects to find a multitude of bugs, it gives me the heebie jeebies soo bad. It’s def the zillions of legs going mach 9 for me.
The damn scolopendras have left mate of mine permanently scarred. They are the demon spawn of Bill Gates himself.
When you’re a centipede, EVERY day is Leg Day!
Silverfish. They eat silverfish, and that is why I am on Team Silverware.
I was in college before I saw one. I grew up with giant 8" long centipedes, but this guy freaked me out more than I can say. Couldn’t even tell it was a centipede. Might as well have been an alien.
Gag.
Freaky motherfookers
I didn’t even know they existed until I had one in my apartment around 5 years ago. Now that I’ve bought a house I see them regularly in my basement.
it’s the legs and speed that do it, normal centipedes are plenty freaky but the fact that the legs are stubbier makes them much more managable, they’re more like seeing a wild rat.
