• FreakinSteve@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 days ago

    In a related story: I met with my new housecleaning service a few days ago and told them I had one very special request: DO NOT DISTURB THE SPIDERS IN OUR BEDROOM!! They are my mosquito-munching pets; just mop the floor under them.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    21 days ago

    I used to live in an apartment they sometimes showed up in and if I went to take a shower and one of them was in the tub, I would leave. The bathroom was occupied.

    • tetris11@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      20 days ago

      A locust flew into my bedroom one summer night. Large, brown, scuttling winged thing with the mass of a tennis ball (exaggeration).

      I quietly exited the room and slept in the bathtub. I carefully went one-by-one through my things during the day but I could never locate it, only hear it buzzing somewhere.

      I slept in the bathtub for three nights before I my roommate came and flushed it out. By then I was ready to move out.

  • Limitless_screaming@kbin.earth
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    21 days ago

    I honestly wouldn’t care if it stayed at one or two of them, but I know if I leave these things and treat them as pets I will get an infestation in no time.

    And with each new one the chances of me feeling one of them walk on my arm increases, and I am not letting that happen.

    • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
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      20 days ago

      They are also territorial and won’t actually eliminate a roach infestation because they will kill each other long before they reach sufficient density to make a difference.

      • Limitless_screaming@kbin.earth
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        20 days ago

        Meh, don’t need them to end an infestation. Just killing the few roaches that might exist somewhere around is enough to pay their rent.

        If I find one close to my face on the other hand, the place it considered territory would be wiped off the map. It would become an endangered species.

        • pleasegoaway@lemm.eeEnglish
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          20 days ago

          The centipedes at my mom’s house def bite, it’s very painful. Sometimes you need to go to the hospital.

          Basically never walk around my mom’s house barefoot.

          • Comment105@lemm.eeEnglish
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            20 days ago

            Have you considered cleaning out the house and closing all the gaps?

            I know a lot of these insect threads tend to disagree, but sealing a house and only letting in air through very fine meshes is 100% possible.

            Every time I bring this up people start taking like spiders and bugs can phase through solid walls of wood and caulk.

            While I have no understanding for that, I do however understand that poverty or mental or physical health issues can make it difficult to get your home to not be a gappy mess. Especially as renters have no authority to do that.

        • 🏴Akuji@leminal.spaceEnglish
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          19 days ago

          Nope!
          Ackshually, it stings, its forcipules aren’t a part of its mouth 🤓
          But when it comes to humans, it’s in reaction to a threat (someone mentioned being stung by one that hid inside their slippers: put yourself in the numerous shoes of a centipede, cornered by a giant fleshy thing invading the cozy place you just found…)
          It would rather flee otherwise.

    • aeshna_cyanea@lemm.eeEnglish
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      20 days ago

      yeah would be willing to believe people are more tolerant of e.g. jumping spiders than other kinds

  • muhyb@programming.devEnglish
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    20 days ago

    I got stung by one of these once when I was staying at my high-school dormitory which was in the woods and away from city. Apparently it crawled into my slippers while I was sleeping so I had not idea this was going to happen. I wore my slippers and felt a certain pain afterwards. I still remember the hole it put into my foot.

    It was not a house centipede but a regular wild one though.

    • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      20 days ago

      my slovenly ass picked up my dirty t-shirt off the floor in Hawaii and some 30-cm monster came flying out and disappeared underneath the china cabinet, not sure why there was a china cabinet. took me awhile and some soothing from my unflappable lover to decide if I should be really freaking out.

        • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          20 days ago

          no idea but probably just a common million-footed monster that will absolutely spicy bite. we got em in the U.S. midwest, but not quite so big. Ohio people are terrified of sprickets, giant harmless crickets, and they are just part of the dank basement ecosystem

  • dditty@lemm.eeEnglish
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    21 days ago

    I will catch and release spiders outside but centipedes all get the boot. They are just too fast

    • AsheHole@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      When I found out that these guys ate spiders as a kid I was super upset I needed to pick sides in the bug war. I chose spiders specifically because I didn’t trust anything that ran away from me that fast. The spiders didn’t have anything to hide.

  • jaschen@lemm.eeEnglish
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    20 days ago

    When I first moved to Taiwan, I rented an Airbnb for 3.months to find my footing in the city.

    One night I slipped into bed and felt the most painful bite I have ever felt in my life. My entire leg then proceeds to swell up and puss on the site where the centipede bit.

    I would rather have the cockroach.