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[sspeedy]

That, ladies and gentlemen, is a house centipede. I've killed at least 4 of them in the last month and a half, varying in size. I just went to use the bathroom and happened to glance at the back of the door and had half a heart attack..... it was a smaller one, thank God, and so I stared at it for a min (the bathroom's quite small), and then it began to f'in move. So I ran out and got my hotshot and a flip flop. I usually HotShot 'em to blindness, which slows 'em down, and then BAM! ...... and that's what happened to the one in the bathroom

But every time I encounter one, I am so disgusted... I can't eat afterwards. I find myself looking up at the ceiling (omG, is that another one or a silverfish, FUCK'S SAKE!). hell, i missed it and now it's fallen somewhere. ah nm, he's done for now.

Anyone encounter these? Any thing I can do to prevent these fuckers from invading my 2 room apartment!? The windows here are quite shitty, cheap and don't close all the way. I'm gonna run hot water down the drains and throw bleach down 'em later on. Bleh.

 

[Mejilan]

FUCK that's nasty!

 

[Triumph]

I had to meet Newt Gingrich my senior year of high school. That was pretty disgusting.

 

[White Man]

It looks kind of like a pickle. I say lick it.

 

[Pochacco]

Most disgusting creature I've had to deal with...

Yo Mama!

 

[vatstep]

You suck. I've killed several of them in my apartment over the last couple of years, but haven't seen one in a while and forgot about them. Now I'm gonna be paranoid.

 

[yoshifumi]

any other bug i have no problem tolerating, but those house centipedes scare the shit out of me

 

[Deleted member 1235]

fire ants. fuck fire ants.

 

[Pochacco]

It would really suck if you fell asleep and was awakened by one of those crawling on your face. You'd probably wake up, turn on the lights, and try looking for it to no avail - then you'd have to go back to bed...but would be all paranoid about where it went. Whether or not it was there or not, you'd probably feel it crawling all over your body under the covers...

Yea, that would really suck.

 

[Zilch]

Haha, my ex-gf's dad's new house is crawling with these things. They scare the crap out of her, I have to kill them if I'm around.

 

[TranceVibrator]

You think thats bad? In australia we get these loverly fellows *constanstly* in our homes. I'm always finding them in my apartment and having to catch them.

 

[sspeedy]

fire ants. fuck fire ants.

i'd take on a fireant any damn day. the worst you get is itching (depends if you're allergic or not, i guess). ok shitloads of itching but these fuckers? i'm still paranoid as fuck, looking around the walls like a homeless person on crack.. and i have long hair. how am i gonna sleep tonight? what good are these fucking cats??

alright, that's it. recommend me some powerful sprays, i'm gonna get 'em tomorrow, more bleach to go down the drains, and tape or some shit to cover the window gaps. i can't live like this, it's too much of a mind fuck. wait till i tell me roommate about this, heh.

 

[Lemurnator]

That, ladies and gentlemen, is a house centipede. I've killed at least 4 of them in the last month and a half, varying in size. I just went to use the bathroom and happened to glance at the back of the door and had half a heart attack..... it was a smaller one, thank God, and so I stared at it for a min (the bathroom's quite small), and then it began to f'in move. So I ran out and got my hotshot and a flip flop. I usually HotShot 'em to blindness, which slows 'em down, and then BAM! ...... and that's what happened to the one in the bathroom

But every time I encounter one, I am so disgusted... I can't eat afterwards. I find myself looking up at the ceiling (omG, is that another one or a silverfish, FUCK'S SAKE!). hell, i missed it and now it's fallen somewhere. ah nm, he's done for now.

Anyone encounter these? Any thing I can do to prevent these fuckers from invading my 2 room apartment!? The windows here are quite shitty, cheap and don't close all the way. I'm gonna run hot water down the drains and throw bleach down 'em later on. Bleh.

Yes.

I FUCKING HATE THEM WITH EVERY FUCKING OUNCE OF MY FUCKING BEING.

I'm not usually afraid of creepy crawlies but I'm afraid of, and creeped the fuck out by those things.

Also ants.

My mom hates them to which makes this next bit pretty hilarious. My mom and stepdad went out on vacation a while back and I was left at home. Well I caught a fucking HUGE house centipede and was kinda pissed my mom and stepdad didn't take us along for the vacation. So I put it in the sink and put a cup over it to wait for them when they got back then I stayed at my dads house for the weekend.

She hates them even more than me. :lol

 

[argon]

since we're on the subject.. I think the most disgusting creature I ever had to deal with were at a place i was renting a few years ago. the landlord of the house hadn't bought new carpets since like the 70s, and there were these weird tiny moth larvae that infested the carpets, tiny worms that encased themselves in what looked like sacks of lint, dust and carpet fibers, and these tiny worms would slowly climb up the sides of the walls. it was only 2 or 3 maybe i would see per month, but they were fucking disgusting. no matter how much i vaccumed, steam cleaned, etc, i couldnt get rid of them from my room. finally i moved!!! and now my #1 priority is a clean, well cared for carpet =)

i never did find out what the hell kind of moth they were, i looked all over the internet. i guess the closest match would be a clothes moth, but they dont look quite the same.

 

[BobbyRobby]

Thank god I never had one of those things in my house.

 

[Lil' Dice]

My cats take care of the bugs.

 

[Do The Mario]

Meh

All invertebrates look hardcore under a dissecting microscope.

 

[Lemurnator]

Get some pet rats or mice. The bugs won't be a problem for you much longer... but you'll have a mouse/rat problem. You can always get a snake though, they take care of 'em pretty good. Just get some mongooses to take care of the snakes.

 

[sc0la]

Get some pet rats or mice. The bugs won't be a problem for you much longer... but you'll have a mouse/rat problem. You can always get a snake though, they take care of 'em pretty good. Just get some mongooses to take care of the snakes.

But then you'll eventually need a rabid dog to kill the mongoose, and then an animal control officer to kill the rabid dog, then a Predator to kill the animal control guy, an Alien to kill the Predator and Paul Anderson to kill the film's potential.. Lets stop this before it gets out of hand

back on topic, I used to have one of THESE as a pet Watching it eat was like having a childs nightmare

 

[TheOMan]

But then you'll eventually need a rabid dog to kill the mongoose, and then an animal control officer to kill the rabid dog, then a Predator to kill the animal control guy, an Alien to kill the Predator and Paul Anderson to kill the film's potential.. Lets stop this before it gets out of hand

back on topic, I used to have one of THESE as a pet Watching it eat was like having a childs nightmare

I just shuddered looking at that and you had it as a pet??? Wow.

 

[Mercury Fred]

My cats take care of the bugs.

Ding ding ding ding ding.

Yeah, get a cat. I used to live in a place that had a horrible centipede problem in the summer time. My cat Quentin (R.I.P. miss you, kid) would go on patrol and tear every last one of these fuckers apart and then chomp them down like little bits of tuna. We even developed a "bug call" that I'd use when and only when I'd see a house pest. He'd immediately flip into hunter mode when I used the call. Awesome.

 

[Companion Cube]

:lol I love it when invertebrae look like they have skin!

Awesome cat, Fred. If I had a cat I'd teach it to hunt prey like that. That's why I shouldn't have cats.

 

[Dice]

Hahaha, the one in that picture is a baby one too. My friend told me all about the ones he had in his house. He caught a "little one" in a ziploc and it was huge to me, he said they're very fast. He also said when he caught it in the ziploc it quicky ran to all four corners of the bag and then stopped--so they're somewhat intelligent!

 

[Gregory]

Bah, you should see here in Scandinavia. Sometimes during summer we get some of these in our homes.

Yes, a housefly. Sometimes we get a bumble bee or two also.

 

[calder]

Freaky bugs, giant-ass spiders... where the fuck do you people live, the middle of the Amazon? :lol It may snow here a wee bit, but at least the unbelievable cold of the endless winter keeps the freaky animal population down.

 

[Desperado]

Worst we get around here are ants and mosquitos outside.

Inside? Roly-polies. And every once in a while I'll find a tiny little thing that's super-hard to crush and looks creepy. hate those.

Used to have a few roaches...*vomits*

 

[Project Midway]

Bah, you should see here in Scandinavia. Sometimes during summer we get some of these in our homes.

Yes, a housefly. Sometimes we get a bumble bee or two also.

Or if you are really really unlucky, you could see a....LADYBIRD!

OH THE HORROR!!11

 

[BorkBork]

Hmm, nothing in this thread is freaking me out too bad yet.
This grossed me out slightly though..

A parasitic isopod that EATS the fish's tongue, replaces it, and lives in the fish's mouth for its entire life. Got a video of it squirming when we pulled it out of the fish's mouth. Pretty awesome!

 

[Rorschach]

Worst creatures on the planet.

 

[Jill Sandwich]

....itchy...tasty

 

[sc0la]

Hmm, nothing in this thread is freaking me out too bad yet.
This grossed me out slightly though..

A parasitic isopod that EATS the fish's tongue, replaces it, and lives in the fish's mouth for its entire life. Got a video of it squirming when we pulled it out of the fish's mouth. Pretty awesome!

that is fucking wretched... there is no god.

 

[Rei_Toei]

Yeah, get a cat. I used to live in a place that had a horrible centipede problem in the summer time. My cat Quentin (R.I.P. miss you, kid) would go on patrol and tear every last one of these fuckers apart and then chomp them down like little bits of tuna. We even developed a "bug call" that I'd use when and only when I'd see a house pest. He'd immediately flip into hunter mode when I used the call. Awesome.

Awesome :lol . My cat does the same, but with flies and other small-time stuff. Once brought us a bat though.

 

[Poody]

Hmm, nothing in this thread is freaking me out too bad yet.
This grossed me out slightly though..

A parasitic isopod that EATS the fish's tongue, replaces it, and lives in the fish's mouth for its entire life. Got a video of it squirming when we pulled it out of the fish's mouth. Pretty awesome!

Awesome, can you upload the vid?

 

[Deku]

 

[Zylander]

You think thats bad? In australia we get these loverly fellows *constanstly* in our homes. I'm always finding them in my apartment and having to catch them.

They are pretty harmless though. Except once I had one in my boot and it bit me on the foot. :lol Didn't make me sick or anything though.

Memo to travellers, Always shake your shoes out before you put them on in Australia, to spiders, they look like cosy sleeping bags!

 

[Error]

Worst creatures on the planet.

I'm surprised it took so long to mention them, fucking hate those motherfuckers specially when you crush them and they are made of what? shit? digusting. fucking hate 'em and sad thing about this is that there is a shitload of them

 

[john tv]

We get cockroaches the size of dropships here in Japan...grosses me out like you wouldn't believe.

 

[Jim Bowie]

You think thats bad? In australia we get these loverly fellows *constanstly* in our homes. I'm always finding them in my apartment and having to catch them.

I'm never ever fucking going to Australia ever.

Jesus fuck that's a nightmare.

 

[zero44]

That, ladies and gentlemen, is a house centipede. I've killed at least 4 of them in the last month and a half, varying in size. I just went to use the bathroom and happened to glance at the back of the door and had half a heart attack..... it was a smaller one, thank God, and so I stared at it for a min (the bathroom's quite small), and then it began to f'in move. So I ran out and got my hotshot and a flip flop. I usually HotShot 'em to blindness, which slows 'em down, and then BAM! ...... and that's what happened to the one in the bathroom

But every time I encounter one, I am so disgusted... I can't eat afterwards. I find myself looking up at the ceiling (omG, is that another one or a silverfish, FUCK'S SAKE!). hell, i missed it and now it's fallen somewhere. ah nm, he's done for now.

Anyone encounter these? Any thing I can do to prevent these fuckers from invading my 2 room apartment!? The windows here are quite shitty, cheap and don't close all the way. I'm gonna run hot water down the drains and throw bleach down 'em later on. Bleh.

omg



scariest insect ever hands fucking down

these things scare the shit out of me with all their goddamn legs movoving all at once and they are fast as fuck.

anytime i see one i go into battle mode and kill these fucks asap

i hate it when they disapear, makes me paranoid as hell,sometimes i just stand in the same place for a long time thinking they may come out to attack mae at anytime

god you just made me put my feet on the desk

 

[Macam]

Just a pair of these guys comfortably making a home outside by the staircase and with either fearful or lazy neighbors, it came down to me to take care of them. There's another one by my parking spot that's about to be taken out, bringing my total Spider Death Count to 4. That picture is of one of them dead and dangling smack in the middle of the stairwell for those neighbors to deal with. I did my part.

 

[Kuroyume]

That, ladies and gentlemen, is a house centipede. I've killed at least 4 of them in the last month and a half, varying in size. I just went to use the bathroom and happened to glance at the back of the door and had half a heart attack..... it was a smaller one, thank God, and so I stared at it for a min (the bathroom's quite small), and then it began to f'in move. So I ran out and got my hotshot and a flip flop. I usually HotShot 'em to blindness, which slows 'em down, and then BAM! ...... and that's what happened to the one in the bathroom

But every time I encounter one, I am so disgusted... I can't eat afterwards. I find myself looking up at the ceiling (omG, is that another one or a silverfish, FUCK'S SAKE!). hell, i missed it and now it's fallen somewhere. ah nm, he's done for now.

Anyone encounter these? Any thing I can do to prevent these fuckers from invading my 2 room apartment!? The windows here are quite shitty, cheap and don't close all the way. I'm gonna run hot water down the drains and throw bleach down 'em later on. Bleh.

I saw one of these in my bathroom an hour ago! It was baby sized so I wasn't as freaked out. It was really damn fast so I had to struggle trying to get it so I could crush it with some paper. @_@ GROSSSS

 

[TranceVibrator]

They are pretty harmless though. Except once I had one in my boot and it bit me on the foot. :lol Didn't make me sick or anything though.

Memo to travellers, Always shake your shoes out before you put them on in Australia, to spiders, they look like cosy sleeping bags!

Yeah, infact your instance is the 1st time I've ever heard of one biting anyone They're harmless, but they sure love climbing up on roofs and when you least expect it, let themselves fall onto your head

I think the 1st thing parents in Australia teach you when you're little, when they take you outside is to hit your shoes to shake out spiders :lol

 

[Excess Poo Flakes]

I searched for flying roach on google and this pops up.

Comparable in grossness, I believe.

 

[-=DoAvl=-]

Most disgusting creature the people of Australia has had to deal with...

 

[-=DoAvl=-]

I searched for flying roach on google and this pops up.

Comparable in grossness, I believe.

This kid

will eventually become...

this guy

 

[methodman]

was staying at my grandpas house one week of summer last year. he lives in a farm area of cali (near sacramento, closer to yuba city tho). he had a hive of these at his house. i wouldnt go outside for the entire fucking week i was so scared. when i first walked into the garage area, something above me slowly lowered and i looked up and there was like 4 fucking huge blkack widows. i was scared to death lol

 

[TranceVibrator]

Most disgusting creature the people of Australia has had to deal with...

Sing it.

 

[Do The Mario]

Most disgusting creature the people of Australia has had to deal with...

Why???

 

[Prospero]

That, ladies and gentlemen, is a house centipede.

I remember the first time I saw one of those (when I noved to New Jersey from Florida--they show up during summers in NJ). Scared hell out of me. I thought, "That thing looks like it has a prime number of legs. That can't be."

I keep a can of Black Flag at the ready this time of year for that reason alone. I don't mind spiders in the house, just because a few of them mean that you won't get any other insects, but the house centipedes and spiders seem to be able to coexist.

 

[human5892]

Ugh, I hate house centipedes. My old apartment got them all the time, and some of them can get gigantic.

The funny thing is, they're technically good to have around -- like spiders, they prey on other insects you'd regard as pests in your house. Too bad they're scary as hell and nobody would like having them around.

Also, they can bite. I've never been bitten myself, but it does happen. They have some minor poision, so the bite could be a little irritated.