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what the heck is this?!

buschmaster
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I keep seeing these things in my house april-september (besides all the other critters I share my house with) it's not a centipede, it's not a millipede, so I figured I'd take a pic next time I saw one... didn't take long! what is it?!? (besides creepy crawly)
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  • 11BravoCrunchie
    Do a Wikipedia search on it...that's gross. I'd throw one of my combat boots at it if I saw one.

    Edit: what geographic region do you live in?
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  • Permanently deleted user
    Quote:
    what the heck is this?!


    Answer!

    UGLY!
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  • Jake_S-83
    touch it.
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  • RUGERGUNZ
    If it was near me it would be


    DEAD
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  • buschmaster
    quote:Originally posted by Zulu7
    Do a Wikipedia search on it...that's gross. I'd throw one of my combat boots at it if I saw one.

    Edit: what geographic region do you live in?
    improvised with work boots! st. louis.
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  • Rockatansky
    This thing is COOL!
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  • Talented
    It's creepy [:)] But i think you could sell them to kids like wicked pets.Unless they're poisonous.
    Seriously maybe u could collect some eggs from that creature and send some over to me.
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  • Stink Foot
    By god I live in the country and will stand here now and declare that that there is a bug. Damn straight
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  • 0341USMC
    That there is what you would call a House centipede.
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  • Marc1301
    I'm stumped![xx(]
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  • buschmaster
    I don't know if it's poisonous or not, wikipedia says centipedes have 4 sets of poisonous jaws, but it's not a centipede.... looking under "icky", "horrid", or "disgusting" didn't bring anything up either! I don't know what it is.
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  • LOKO383
    doesn't centi- have something to do with the pairs of legs and it has 10 pair right?, Loko[:D]
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  • 0341USMC
    search House Centipede.Yes they are poisonous,bites are like a bee sting.
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  • v35
    Quick Henry the Flit !
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  • phillip
    I say smash it.
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  • buschmaster
    ??? flit?
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  • scrumpyjack
    House centipede....we've got 'em too. They are harmless to humans and pets. They outside under the bark of evergreens, etc and come in the house to hunt for food (spiders). They're quick suckers. I can say I used to kill them as fast as I saw them and then I researched it figured I'd start leaving them be since we very seldom see a spider in the house. [;)] I've never had one crawl on me, the wife or the kids but it is startling to catch a big one crawling on the wall out of the corner of your eye!
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  • jimdeere
    I'd call it "bait".
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  • Odawgp
    dont know but its cool looking
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  • buschmaster
    ok, I saw the wiki on house centipedes. that's what it is by golly. thanks!
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  • Talented
    Reminds me of this huge hairy spider that used to sleep on the wall in my toilett behind the toilettchair in the evenings &nights when i were in Southern Philippines 3 years ago.It were almost like a housepet.Unfortunately it were eventually cruched when the new sink fell down on it one day.I even have the "pet" on video [:)][:D]
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  • 65gto389
    Looks like some cross between a centepede(sp?) and those 'walking stick' bugs russel crowe saw on master and commander.





    However it looks more like those two headed bugs on "evoultion" that orlando jones said 'is it coming or going?'.
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  • sig232
    It looks like the old "silverfish" bugs that you see on the floor!
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  • buschmaster
    naah, I saw a sliverfish last night, this is something ele. this thing is way bigger, the body is about 1-1/2". it would probably eat a silverfish.
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  • He Dog
    Also called a wind centipede, they have 15 pairs of legs, but it sure looks like more. They are creepy, but harmless to humans and housepets as scrumpyjack said.
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  • shooter4
    Did you try to fry it and make a pan gravy?
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  • buschmaster
    ????? with a bug?? you must be kidding emot-barf.gif
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  • jimbowby
    [8D]-You guys, obviously don't know the "KORAN"--

    --Our CIA would classify that as "Of Iranian Origin"--

    --[:p][:p]--JIMBO
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  • oldemagics
    round here we always called them "thousandleggers"
    cant confirm what they eat or if poisonous, but i can tell you the larger ones do have a wicked bite.
    we get some as long as 3 inches or so
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  • sarge_3ad
    Better call ORKIN!
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