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House Centipedes
Posted on 07/03/2005 9:06:51 PM PDT by JCRoberts
So, it appears as though "house centipedes" have decided to reside in our house. I have two questions.
1) What is the best way to get rid of the little terrorists?
2) How do I prevent my wife from freaking out every time she sees one?
Thank you for your assistance.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: help; pests
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posted on
07/03/2005 9:06:51 PM PDT
by
JCRoberts
To: JCRoberts
Ugh! I usually call the local exterminator to spray for less than $100.
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posted on
07/03/2005 9:08:20 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: JCRoberts
Put your beebers on stun.
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posted on
07/03/2005 9:08:29 PM PDT
by
Stellar Dendrite
(FAKE conservatism is more dangerous than liberalism <<<---at least you know what you're gonna get!)
To: JCRoberts
OH! And make sure that they have a guarantee that you're bug-free for a loooong time. And if you see any more, call them back and they should re-spray for free.
(I usually call them back even if I don't see any bugs)
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posted on
07/03/2005 9:10:48 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
To: JCRoberts
Just hope they're on your side.
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posted on
07/03/2005 9:12:05 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(I zot trolls for fun and profit.)
To: JCRoberts
Thank God you don't have the honkin big poisonous centipedes like the ones in the Virgin Islands.
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posted on
07/03/2005 9:14:06 PM PDT
by
A Balrog of Morgoth
(With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the RINOs in terror before me.)
To: JCRoberts
You could just leave them alone - they'll eat any spiders, crickets, etc., that they come across, and thus keep down the population of other nasties. Of course, it doesn't sound like your wife is likely to think about it in those terms, so alternately, go to your local pest supply joint and ask for Borid - it's a powdered boric acid formulation that you squirt into crevices and under the baseboards and such, where they're likely to hide. That should do it, if you're unable to persuade the wife to go along with the Wild Kingdom approach ;)
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posted on
07/03/2005 9:14:28 PM PDT
by
general_re
("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
To: JCRoberts
I will welcome our great Centipede Overloads. All Hail the Cetnipede Overlords!!! B-)
Seriously, I don't really know what to do, but centipedes freak me out and millipedes are a lot worse. One of my buddies' father served as an M-60 gunner in Vietnam on a Huey. One time a foot long millipede crawled on him and he empted a belt into it from his M-60. Years later, at home, a millipede crawled on him while he was under the crawlspace under his him and he freaked. Millipedes are nasty and gross.
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posted on
07/03/2005 9:17:11 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(Lutheran, Conservative, Neo-Victorian/Edwardian, Michael Savage in '08! - DeCAFTA-nate CAFTA!)
To: JCRoberts
I'm with your wife. I call the exterminator. I was happy to learn that they are not dangerous. That might help her too. Here is a link I found.
If someone else has some good tips, will you ping me? I hate the things, and they came back once.
http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/iiin/housece.html
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posted on
07/03/2005 9:17:28 PM PDT
by
Samwise
(Happy birthday, America!)
To: A Balrog of Morgoth
I was at a friends house just a few hours ago and his neighbor has a family of skunks living under her porch. The skunks haven't been a problem but it's a disaster waiting to happen.
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posted on
07/03/2005 9:17:45 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(I zot trolls for fun and profit.)
To: Nowhere Man
One time a foot long millipede crawled on him OK. I'm going to have nightmares tonight.
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posted on
07/03/2005 9:19:08 PM PDT
by
Samwise
(Happy birthday, America!)
To: Nowhere Man
Ive got a million earwig army massing under my flowerpots.
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posted on
07/03/2005 9:19:29 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(I zot trolls for fun and profit.)
To: Samwise
OK. I'm going to have nightmares tonight.
You and me both. Millipedes are around when there has been lots of rain too. One time, my 18 year old calico cat found one about 4 inches long, she started to play with it until I killed it and tossed it out, blech!!!!
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posted on
07/03/2005 9:21:47 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(Lutheran, Conservative, Neo-Victorian/Edwardian, Michael Savage in '08! - DeCAFTA-nate CAFTA!)
To: JCRoberts
For the Cemtipedes:
For the Wife:
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posted on
07/03/2005 9:25:45 PM PDT
by
JennysCool
(Be good, and you will be lonesome. - Mark Twain)
To: JCRoberts
I 'combat' centipedes invading our house on a regular basis .
I find that Raid Fumigator bombs work well to but down a film that disables and even kills the 'Peeds for weeks , if not month afterwards. If there is a population of roaches , centipedes will follow them . It's nature ! They can sniff um out...Have a pair of long handle cooking thongs handy to pick them up with helps too. You don't want to let them get too close ! Then flush um ~~~~
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posted on
07/03/2005 9:28:48 PM PDT
by
injin
To: JCRoberts
Answers:
1. Hire an exterminator. That way, it won't be YOUR fault the next time she sees one.
2. Keep her blindfolded, just in case.
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posted on
07/03/2005 9:29:36 PM PDT
by
labette
(If only common sense would be more common..)
To: A Balrog of Morgoth
Thank God you don't have the honkin big poisonous centipedes like the ones in the Virgin Islands.We lived on St. Croix when I was a kid and the bugs there were terrifying. One night my father woke up because he felt something crawling on his chest and he brushed it off instinctively. When he turned on the light, he found that it was a large centipede.
To: SilentServiceCPOWife
My dad was an STSCS who was a range controller down there during the mid 1980s.
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posted on
07/03/2005 10:30:32 PM PDT
by
A Balrog of Morgoth
(With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the RINOs in terror before me.)
To: Nowhere Man
Millipedes are nasty and gross.Hehe! Those GIANT millipedes from Africa are actually kind of cool! And they have these neat little symbiotic mites that live on them and clean their exoskeleton bands. The mites won't get on you though, 'cause they don't like people...
To: Americanchild
Hehe! Those GIANT millipedes from Africa are actually kind of cool! And they have these neat little symbiotic mites that live on them and clean their exoskeleton bands. The mites won't get on you though, 'cause they don't like people...
I've seen one of them, well I think it was a giant millipede from South America, IIRC. My buddy was hauling pets for his friends at the pet store he worked at. I remember he came over the house, opened the back of his pickup and showed me a giant millipede. He also had two Egyptian "sand cobras/vipers," VERY venomous, they were kind of looking at me funny, and some tarantulas. He did lose one, a tarantula, in the truck and it was wandering around there for two or three weeks until he found him. One of his friends had a total of 25 snakes, including 10 cobras, one was even an albino, but he got rid of them when one of them bit his girlfriend on the butt and she ended up in the University of Pittsburgh's ICU unit for a week and they had to get anti-venin flown in.
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posted on
07/04/2005 5:36:49 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(Lutheran, Conservative, Neo-Victorian/Edwardian, Michael Savage in '08! - DeCAFTA-nate CAFTA!)
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