Invasion of Centipedes
I have caught at least 100 little centipedes in my house in the past month. Crawling around on the floor. I scoop them up with a piece of paper and throw them outside.
These are little guys about 1 1/4 inch long and a dark gray color. We have never had centipedes before to amount to anything.
Where do these come from and why are they here? This is in the North Carolina mountains.
These are little guys about 1 1/4 inch long and a dark gray color. We have never had centipedes before to amount to anything.
Where do these come from and why are they here? This is in the North Carolina mountains.
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Likely recently hatched from eggs laid in or very near in your cabin. No doubt someone will be along to tell you they are messican illegals. 0 -
Centipedes are hunters and like many spiders likely better company than whatever they are eating. I seem to remember common house Centipedes being a lighter to a medium grey color. Maybe make sure it is a common house Centiped which is harmless. They eat any small bugs they can catch, especially good for bedbugs. 0 -
Allen, I am just a few hours North of you in Virginia and we are having a centipede invasion as well. It seems like they swarm in 5 year cycles. Normally they will be gone by mid July when it gets really hot and dry. I have been living in this same house for the past 25 years and it seems like many insects have a cycle every so many years. Some years it is lady bugs, some years locust, grasshoppers, ect.... Natures balance of things????? IDK. They seem harmless enough. Here is one from out on the driveway. 
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Those make good fish bait! If you don?t want them around, spray around your house with Triazicide, available at Walmart.
Follow instructions on the bottle. Spray just before a rain, it will kill the larvae. I just got done spraying my yard area to kill the Jap beetle and June bug larvae. (No offense, yosh)
We live in the sticks, we have to abide a few varmits.
Being on well water, I am adverse to doing much spraying of pesticides.0 -
don it looks like the same bug. I have been here 23 years and never had a centipede invasion. However these bugs are primarily in the addition, which I have only had for 3 years. They like the log cabin addition, but don't like the original log house? Same wood.0 -
My wife is a bugs worst enemy. She sprays inside the house, basement, attic and yard with Ortho's Home Defense every couple of months or sooner if she sees a bug in the house so we rarely see a bug of any sort. She's probably killed every bug with in a quarter mile radius of the house.
When we first moved to this house there were some very small black scorpions that we saw in the basement garage. Needless to say that put my wife on a mission. We really should have been wearing hazmat suits with respirators and tented the house along with roping off the property line with hazard warning tape with the amount of chemicals she sprayed in and on the house and surrounding structures.
I never knew there were scorpions in Georgia until I saw the ones here. They are so small I wouldn't think their sting would be very powerful but I wouldn't want to try one out just to see.0 -
The one in your photo looks like a millipede rather than a centipede. Most species feed on dead plant matter and are pretty slow moving. 0 -
In Podunk Iowa, we have an invasion of Rollie Pollies. Little millipede looking worms. If you poke them, they roll up in circles.
Every spring, about the same time as we're over run with Asian beetles.
Good news is, the yard birds will eat the worms. The Asian beetles, not so much.0 -
Neo blackdog nailed it millipede. Easy to distinguish, Well an old guy like you might need a big magnifying glass Allen, millipedes have 2 legs per body segment, centipedes only one. 0 -
Diver-rig, those are isopods, crustaceans, originally marine an aquatic, they have been around a very, very long time. Also called wood lice, and pill bugs. 0 -
I've got these fuzzy lookin' ones here now that the ex is out.
Back when I bought this place the ex bug bombed and then sprayed religiously with Ortho Home Defense Max. Only bugs I saw during that three year period were brown recluse spiders. Since post ex the millipedes moved in by the dozens and all I see now is an occasional mouse. With a little bit of research I found they eat all kind of household insects, to include spiders, and that their mouth pieces are to small to pose a risk to most mammals. They're welcome to stay far as I'm concerned.0 -
Those are called house centipedes Cowboy. They have around 30 pairs of legs and are fast for centipedes. Two pair of legs near the head have venom (actually they sting rather than bite, but it is a fine point). They are dangerous only to the things they prey on which are usually smaller than themselves. Speed also helps them get away from predators and shoes. 0 -
is a centipede a metric inchworm?
j/k0
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