Scutigera Coleoptrata
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
I found this guy trapped in my kitchen sink this morning. I took his photo before releasing him back to the wild (out my kitchen window). The What is this Bug group on Reddit identified him as a common House Centipede, known for eating other pesky critters like roaches and bedbugs.
I should have supplemented the early morning light with something brighter to get more depth of field. Shot through the glass of the pitcher I trapped him in.
they eat bedbugs, you should start breeding them and make your fortune.
ugh… I hate those guys. we have them in our house too. Why are they always trapped in the sink or the tub?
also eat cockroaches and ants. these are good bugs.
my cat likes to eat them, but he eats anything.
Adam and Luna, if I had known I would have sold him to the highest bidder. As it is I put him out the window. At least it’s a beautiful day to find a new home. Dmansouri, they can’t climb as well as their roachy brethren. I skooted him into a glass water pitcher for his photo shoot and he couldn’t climb that at all.
dmansouri: “Why are they always trapped in the sink or the tub?”
It’s the water: hey hang out in moist areas and proliferate like mad during really humid spells (a dehumidifier will mess them up good).
wild-the head looks like a squirrel sniffing the air
Yep there’s at least a milligram of aww here.
hate.
I always incorrectly called these silver fish. They freak me out even though they do no harm. Anything with that many legs and antennae that move that quickly is creepy.
I had one of these once, many years ago, and it scared me at the time. I had no idea what it was until recently when some people were discussing it in a bar, of all places. Have these things become popular because of bedbugs?
Yes, their Q rating is way up because they are preferable to bedbugs, Goggla.
From what I’ve learned since posting this, their fangs are too tiny to break human skin, but I still wouldn’t have them as co-residents in my apartment.