centipedes

[urbpan]

If you're like me (in one particular way), you can't get enough of pictures of house centipedes. If that's you, go here: http://www.whatsthatbug.com/cent.html
There are pictures of scary hawaiian scolopendras and pretty cyanide-secreting millipedes, too.

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[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

I knew you'd love that! :)

[plantgirl.livejournal.com]

I encountered one of those years ago. I usually like bugs but it gave me the heebie-jeebies for hours. That sucker could zoom. Not enough time to figure out what it was, except something with waaaay to many moving parts was now hiding in my couch.
::shudders::

I like the millipede pics, though. Pretty colors.

[harebell.livejournal.com]

I LOVE house centipedes!!!
Great site. I especially like the one eating what appears to be a pickle.

[mike20.livejournal.com]

Oh god. I HATE house centipedes. We had them all over my dorm in college. They skeev me out someting fierce.

We had these pill-shaped (a shallow cylendar, like an aspirin) covers over our lights in our rooms. A house centipede got into mine and it ran in circles ewvery time I turned on the light for the next 3 days.

[suburbangothic.livejournal.com]

We have these within an hour's drive (San Antonio, TX):

The cool air brings not crunchy leaves underfoot, but crunching of those tiny brown millipedes scurrying about from the grass to the mulch and back. No house scorpions though, which is a shame as they're like little fossils or feathers or tadpole shrimp... but with venom!

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I love how centipedes capture everyone's attention. I wish it were more often positive, of course. Check out this thread for the last conversation about them we had here. It includes a picture of a similar large scolopendra (but with black and red reversed, strangely) found in an office in Austin.

[suburbangothic.livejournal.com]

Yes! The ones I see in San Antonio are also black with red-orange ends and legs, just gorgeous! I lived in Austin for years and never saw any, though. I need to take photos of our house fauna. I found a tiny appleseed sized "palmetto bug"/Am. cockroach in the tub this morning and about 100000 little brown millipedes snuggling in the laundry on the washroom floor. Hope I shook them all out as I don't think any amount of Downy will cover that smell. I have cellar spiders (http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/Pholcidae/Pholcidae.htm) in every corner but plan to relocate them today as the webs are so messy. I had read they were active cannibals and pirates but with the population explosion here, that's hard to believe. Their appearance has marked a large drop in fuzzy little jumping spiders as well. I've considered feeding the cellars to my tarantulas, there's so many of them.
Living in the humid south, you have to get over insect fears or you'll be jumping out of your skin every time you flick on the bathroom light or get something out of your garage.