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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.
If they just smiled more they’d be so pretty!
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
Weirdly enough there are studies about how millipedes and centipedes move their feet.
oh yeah my dad told me his mechatronics thesis was about building a robot that has legs and moves like a spider … so, almost centipede. he told me they also looked at centipedes just for reference.
Conversion from freedom units 🦅🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅 to metric 🌍🌏 please
396mm/s.
Which is like 396/1000 of a meter!
2 5$ Footlongs a second
Wait what? $5 footlongs are only like 6.5 inches long? Not that there’s anything wrong with that length. It’s above average really.
No
40cm/s or 1.4km/h
Roughly 31 degrees centimeters
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.
Because humans inherented the fears from all the mammals before primates
Wish I hadn’t boost the wife cheating with a centipede copy paste for this thread
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!!!”
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
Each leg causing a sonic boom with each step
If they weren’t fast enough, how would they catch the cockroaches?
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.
How about knocking first? Rude.
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
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))
Be the change you want to see! Or post on !entomology@mander.xyz ;)
Good idea. I may start
onesomething 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.Ha, for everything we’ve lost from there, we have redundancies here.
Thank you very much! I obviously still have a lot of looking around to do.
Thanks, I subscibed to a couple of those.
I can help out with spiders and related stuff!
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.
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.
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.
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.
That bug has a voice when I read it in my head, and it is creepy as hell
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What Kind of animal is this?
House centipede
does it bite
Yeah, Roaches
Nope!
Ackshually, it stings, its forcipules aren’t a part of its mouth 🤓
But when it comes to humans, it’s in reaction to a threat (someone mentioned being stung by one that hid inside their slippers: put yourself in the numerous shoes of a centipede, cornered by a giant fleshy thing invading the cozy place you just found…)
It would rather flee otherwise.put yourself in the numerous shoes of a centipede
that was funny
The centipedes at my mom’s house def bite, it’s very painful. Sometimes you need to go to the hospital.
Basically never walk around my mom’s house barefoot.
It is harmless to people
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.
