The reality is that these guys won't actually make a big dent in a roach infestation. They are pretty territorial and their population will always scale in proportion to the food supply, so if you have a lot of centipedes, you'll have a fuck ton of roaches.
I got bitten by this hell spawn. I was sleeping and I guess I was stretching my leg and laid my leg on top of this thing.
I have never felt so much pain in my life. It felt like my skin was melting and burning at the same time. For the next few weeks, the bite mark would randomly start to puss and random shots of pain.
I'd rather have roaches. At least with roaches, they don't bite.
Standard house centipedes (I'm pretty sure that's what's in this comic) aren't supposed to have a very painful bite. You may have been bitten by a different kind of centipede, or maybe had an allergic reaction, for your pain to be so severe.
Imagine you go to the washroom to grab some toilet paper to blow your nose and when when you pull on the paper this asshole jumps up at you, like a buggy over the dunes, at full speed up your hand. Then the asshole disappeared just as fast when flung off.
I had never seen one before, and was just settling in after moving into my new apartment when my turn gf just screams and comes running into the kitchen saying, "there's a horrible monster bug in the sink, ITS HUGE"
And unprepared for the Lovecraftian little horror waiting for me, expecting some kind of beetle or something, I was pretty shook up. Legitimately was scared to go into the kitchen at night after that.
yeah but the range of leg pairs for humans is (comparatively) much more tame. this would be like if humans had 1-12.3 leg pairs. and crazier still, humans were named something like “6 legged beings”
I got stung/bit by one of those little bastards once in the shower. Usually they don't bother humans and their mouth stingers(kind of like legs that are turned into venomous fangs for killing other bugs) can't really go deep enough, but I guess this one got motivated once he started drowning and crawled up my leg.
Creepiest house bug ever. I let them be because they eat other bugs.
If you ever see a lot of them you’ve got another problem, that means they have a lot to eat. Could be an infestation of other bugs like roaches or a dead animal in the walls.
According to a random comment I saw once, these things will happily eat each other if there's no other bugs to eat. So basically yes.... unless your house has a continuous influx of new bugs.
This is also why they aren't actually great at pest control. They are pretty territorial so their populations never get big enough to make a serious dent. It's perfectly fine to kill them.
My theory is that when you have too many nightmares in one night and the horror doesn't have anywhere to go, the nightmare takes shape and one of these crawls out of you
Creepy. And I learned something. Reminds me of another comic strip that cracked me up. The gist:
God said to the insects "you may each pick three traits."
The millipede said, "I want legs!"
The centipede agreed.
God nodded. "And for your second trait?"
The millipede smiled brightly and said "More legs!"
The centipede request the same.
God asked for their final request.
"More legs!" The millipede shouted smiling even brighter
The centipede gave a sinister grin and growled. "Teeth."
it's extremely obvious that you're incorrect if you simply look at the words, "centi" means "hundred" and is smaller than "milli" which means "thousand".
centipedes look like they have a hundred legs, millipedes look like they have a thousand legs.
Do you like reptiles? One of the reasons I got a lizard was so the occasional escaped feeder cricket could ravage the cockroach population in my shitty apartment. That mixed with diatomaceous earth has nearly elimated all roach sightings.
That's stuff (of any brand, really) will help a ton, but since you live in an apartment, you'll never be able to keep all the roaches away unless everyone in the complex starts doing something about it.
