I once woke up in the middle of the night to see my cat straight up jump onto a vertical wall, strike a house centipede, and then eat half of it. I found the legs on the desk in the morning…
I didn’t know we had centipedes that would come inside before living in a flat that was half way in a basement. Also didn’t know a colony of silverfish was a thing. Centipedes, who obviously were in for a buffet, were nothing compared to that silvery fishy horror that I discovered rustling under the floor cover of my dog’s food bowls at midnight. Didn’t live there long after that.
The M on his head stands for “Murder.”
Cat be like:
House centipedes are actually friends! They don’t eat your food, clothes, or house, nor spread disease, but they do eat all the little bugs that do those things.
They unfortunately look disgusting as hell though, triggers my disgust response like roaches do.
That’s fantastic, fuck if I ever live near a place where “HOUSE CENTIPEDES” are a thing though
I can’t even come close to a centipede without freaking out
Adding this to the list of insects to scoop up on a sheet of paper and put outside. Assuming I ever see one inside.
Good luck scooping up a motherfucking house centipede. They move at like five billion miles per hour.
I totally believe you!
I do my best not to kill spiders and other friends. I only do it if I cannot transport them to a safer place for some reason or if it’s pure instinct (as in, I saw it unexpectedly and swatted at it without thinking).
Having said that, I totally get that some people have intense fear of these creatures. In this case, cat to the rescue!
Insects terrify the absolute sanity outta me. Then I feel bad about having killed a usually beneficial bug.
Except the spotted lanternflies. Screw them.
By that same chain tho … the cat is actually a friend!
House centipede?
We get centipede but not in the house.
Also known as a “Nope”
I’m evacuating the house and burning it down if I ever see that
Those tiny guys are cute compared to this horror from Hawaii:
(Image from Wikipedia – article is here)
You gotta make sure to shake out your shoes before putting them on and check your sheets before getting in bed if you live around those guys…
Interesting, I didn’t know that Aboriginal Australians ate them.
Just looking at it fills me with horror.
The Devil’s Eyebrow…
That’s a definite nope
What other bug has cool matching stripes on all 55 of its flesh-creep-inducing legs? I both like and shiver at them.
that’s an evil land shrimp
but not in the house.
You were saying?
That is enough “work” to earn their keep for the rest of their life right?
That’s the face of a killer.
savagely cute
