The only bugs I kill are roaches. Centipedes are cool. I've done the exact same thing as the guy above, and performed a paper-towel rescue on a waterlogged centipede I found floating in the tub after my showe one time.
But that's not what sent me here.
Does anybody know if these things have a regular daily route thru their territory the way somebody told me toads do? I ask because twice in the last week I've seen one crawl across the same spot on the wall at approximately the same time in the evening. Then I found out they can live for 5 years. I couldn't kill a bug like that.
Mostly, tho, I just feel sort of sorry for the three that I know live here--two in the bathroom, a big and a little, and another big one in the kitchen--because the only ohther bugs I've seen since I caulked every crack and every corner of my apartment 9 years ago (after a roach sighting the first week I lived here) are the wasps that buzz around my living room windows this time of year and the spiders which sometimes build webs up near the ceiling, then slowly starve to death. I don't know what these guys are eating. I haven't even seen a fly in over a year and I've never once been bitten by a mosquite since I've lived here.
Then again, maybe that's all due to the centipedes...
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Centipedes' daily planner?
Date: 2006-08-04 03:02 am (UTC)But that's not what sent me here.
Does anybody know if these things have a regular daily route thru their territory the way somebody told me toads do? I ask because twice in the last week I've seen one crawl across the same spot on the wall at approximately the same time in the evening. Then I found out they can live for 5 years. I couldn't kill a bug like that.
Mostly, tho, I just feel sort of sorry for the three that I know live here--two in the bathroom, a big and a little, and another big one in the kitchen--because the only ohther bugs I've seen since I caulked every crack and every corner of my apartment 9 years ago (after a roach sighting the first week I lived here) are the wasps that buzz around my living room windows this time of year and the spiders which sometimes build webs up near the ceiling, then slowly starve to death. I don't know what these guys are eating. I haven't even seen a fly in over a year and I've never once been bitten by a mosquite since I've lived here.
Then again, maybe that's all due to the centipedes...