i just wanna live

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.
- If they just smiled more they'd be so pretty!
  
  They should try to be dapper like Cho'gath.
- probably my favorite post for the month:)

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
- Conversion from freedom units 🦅🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅 to metric 🌍🌏 please
  
  396mm/s.
  Which is like 396/1000 of a meter!
  
  2 5$ Footlongs a second
  
  40cm/s or 1.4km/h
  
  No
  
  Roughly 31 degrees centimeters

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.
- one of these creepy bastards got inside of my soap dispenser brush thing for doing the dishes. just threw the entire brush away D=
- Sometimes I try to imagine a giant version running around in a proportionally fast speed. That really activates my fight or flight response
  
  Size of a bus, thundering down the freeway at 450 miles an hour

I don't have a phobia of bugs, but centipedes really do make my skin crawl.
- I think this is deep in the dna of all mammals from like 100 million years ago
  
  I have a strong dislike of centipedes as well. One time years ago I had a terrible dream that a large centipede (one of those big jungle ones) was crawling all over my body. As it raced down my arm I slapped at it, with a jolt of pain my arm went instantly numb as it bit me.
  I startled myself awake to realize I was laying on my arm and it had gone completely asleep and was numb. Still one of the scariest dreams I've ever had haha.
  
  What? Why would it be? I think humans are scared of anything that surprises them or that they cannot immediately understand what it'll do. But why centipedes in general? I've never had any fear of them, unlike other arthropods that moved more erratically and faster.
- 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).
  
  I dunno, silverfish are smaller than flies, but they still give me that revulsion response.
- Wish I hadn't boost the wife cheating with a centipede copy paste for this thread

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.

What Kind of animal is this?
- House centipede
  
  does it bite

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 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.

My basement spiders get them. I love my basement spiders.

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))
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata
- Be the change you want to see! Or post on !entomology@mander.xyz ;)
  
  Good idea. I may start ~~one~~ something 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.
- Why wouldnt posting images work?
  
  Disabled on lemm.ee due to abuse I believe, gotta upload it somewhere else and post the link.
- Are you on iNaturalist yet? It's similar in that you can try to identify all kinds of organisms that get uploaded and you never run out of new ones :)
  
  No, I guess those subs I slowly got interested in but I really haven't been proactive about looking for other sources. I'll definitely check it out. Thanks.

That bug has a voice when I read it in my head, and it is creepy as hell
- https://youtu.be/rDLlMlKUsyI?t=129

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.
- 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.
  
  That's huge. I'm glad there is nothing like that here. Did you learn what was it?

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 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.
- 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.
  
  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.

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

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.