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My basement spiders get them. I love my basement spiders.
Instead of fumigation, can you breed them, release them in a house to kill all the cockroaches, then lure them back into their mobile home with food?
They should care! It could be a source of selection pressure
yeah would be willing to believe people are more tolerant of e.g. jumping spiders than other kinds
I like web spiders better. They stay in their spot, I stay out of their spot.
Maybe if they could wear a suit and say thank you once in a while.
Seriously, they have the arms but they don’t have the cards.
And they horde their rich minerals all to themselves, when they could just ask us to look after it for them. Maybe.
probably my favorite post for the month:)
I said this the last time this was posted and I’m saying it again
“THEN MAYBE DON’T MOVE SO FUCKING FAST IT ACTIVATES MY FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE!!!”
If they weren’t fast enough, how would they catch the cockroaches?
I can catch a lot of things if I sprint, but I don’t usually sprint from the couch to the kitchen.
These little dudes can move 1.3 feet per second which is absolutely insane
Gonna take a long time to move all their feet
Yeah the trick is you gotta decide which order you’re going with first
Weirdly enough there are studies about how millipedes and centipedes move their feet.
I don’t have a phobia of bugs, but centipedes really do make my skin crawl.
Centipedes are scary because they have so many legs and they scurry very fast with incredible agility. In general I think we feel a revulsion to small critters with that kind of speed and agility. But if they’re too small (fly sized or smaller) then it’s more annoyance than revulsion.
The many legs thing is a real mystery though! I think it might be some kind of proxy for venomous critters, as spiders and centipedes have more legs than insects and also tend to be more venomous (apart from some Hymenopterans).
Wish I hadn’t boost the wife cheating with a centipede copy paste for this thread
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.
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.
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.
How about knocking first? Rude.
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.
I love house spiders
They are fascinating little creatures. They have a bunch of stripes on them, even across their legs. They eat dangerous house pests. They are venomous, but their “bites” are less irritating than a mosquito bite. They also don’t technically bite, they envenomate using two modified legs.
Step 1: Obtain Cat
Step 2: Show the cat your roach infestation
Step 3: ???
Step 4:
Profit?MEOW?(Good for getting rid of mice, doesn’t do much against roaches… 🤷♂️ At least the cat is warm to hold when I’m sad)
I miss r/WhatsThisBug
:(
Also, being able to post images, etc. (guess I am starting to be able to on instances I have joined (just got here in recent weeks))
Be the change you want to see! Or post on [email protected] ;)
Good idea. I may start
onesomething at some point but I don’t know anything about bugs so I learned a lot over there. All those ID subs were great. Thanks for the entomology suggestion. I’ll definitely check it out.Ha, for everything we’ve lost from there, we have redundancies here.
Thank you very much! I obviously still have a lot of looking around to do.
I will catch and release spiders outside but centipedes all get the boot. They are just too fast
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.
These mother fuckers would sometimes drop on me and my father. Creepy fast little fuckers man
