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I am sure many of you have seen these, but they are the worst. They are just unholy. We saw one of them crawling around in my friends basement and of course it went under the couch before we could kill it. So we didn't know where it went until later we found it hanging from the celling eating another one of it's brothers.
Behold the house centipede
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpa...eCentipede.jpg
:eek:
If I ever saw that I would faint.
Or run really fast.
We have some of those in our basement.
Our cats like to eat them.
The basement of our old house always had lots of exotic bugs. I sure hope that picture isn't real size:shock:
A fine delicacy in CzechoQuote:
Originally Posted by Flinte
It's so creepy.. it's kinda pretty. :)
Man those things are lightning fast! I see them from time to time when I'm working in apartment buildings.
Gross.
Still.. not as bad or as scary as having to deal with one of those large poisonous centipedes. Those could possibly be one of my worst fears.
I'd like to see what a squished one would look like.
Probably like any other large, squished bug.. @_@ Ew.
Never seen one of those in my life. And thank heavens I haven't. Now I better not have jinxed it. D;
We have those things everywhere in Thailand, not with such long legs tho.
They will, however, give you a hell of a bite, make you hallucinate, sweat, nasty
Once I was starting up my bike in the bike-shed and I felt something on my foot... yup... one of those things, about 3 inches long.
I did a crazy "get-it-off-me, get-it-off-me" dance but I was feeling it everywhere for the next half an hour.
Snakes, I can handle. Crunchy, exo-skeleton things with lots of legs, no. Just no.
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Originally Posted by Alban
We have these in my house. The bodies explode leaving a yellowish splotch with the disembodied legs on the side when you squish them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant
Wow, I am almost glad I didn't hit it. We tried to but they are so amazingly fast. It was easily the weirdest looking when it ran, it kind of ran with an arch to it's body. I live in Minnesota, so it was the first time I had ever seen one. We had absolutely no idea what it was, we assumed it was some sort of crazy earwig hybrid.
Would you rather eat a live giant house centipede, or a live camel spider.
Yeah, I have those around my house, along with regular centipedes. I've often freaked out people in chat with these pics :P:
http://www.uos.harvard.edu/images/eh...ipede_main.jpg
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/whit1019/cen..._centipede.jpg
...:shock:
We got some spiders in England...little...you know...just little ones...
We don't got that. We don't want that.
...I'm typing this while stood on my chair. DO NOT WANT INSECTS.
Oh yeah! I used to see those things around my basement all the time. Fast little buggers. But then I got a cat, and they all went into hiding. Honestly, if you've got a bug problem, forget Raid, get a cat. Can you cuddle a can of Raid? I don't think so.
Hmm. Those pics just make me want to tie their front and back antennae into little bows.
...:P
What kind of girl are you, Mes?
Rofl XD Good question, indeed.
Sindred is lucky....
I am evil. :evil:
Or perhaps I'm just trying to cover up my intense fear of these things... :parapet:
Damn you!
You have made me half paranoid, and half wanting to valiantly search my house to destroy all bugs!
LOL!!! But really, that things creepy. It actually reminded me of a dream I had as a child about living in a world where spiders were about the same size as Scottish Terriers. It was so scary. Its weird how tiny little creepy crawly things can startle the most successful species of animal on this planet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant
Those are so damn cool.
12.5x better than spiders!
Awesome. I want a bucket full of the nasty little buggers.
Does bugger mean the same in the US as in the UK?Quote:
Originally Posted by Man of Steel
They'd obviously hack at each other in a cannibalistic fervour, quickly leaving behind nothing but a yellow-green paste.Quote:
Originally Posted by Man of Steel
Mmm. Sounds like the perfect overnight face cream.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spartiate
Quite likely.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alban
Exactly. I've gotta get me some of these things.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spartiate
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Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant
Get on MSN, you.
Mes, you freak me out. I'm going to have nightmares because of you.
She freaks me out too, but it's not nightmares I'll be having...Quote:
Originally Posted by Kushna Mufeed
Noun is the same I think. Do they have the verb in the US?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alban
Regarding the bugs, what Sindred said. Those things are exclusive to the USA aren't they? And Thailand? Those two countries only, right?!
:lol: Pansy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Kushna Mufeed
MoS :smitten: I'm slightly busy but shall take a rain check.
I'm a pansy because your 100+ legged insect fetish freaks me out? If you say so...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant
:smitten: I'm writing that down in the still-functioning part of my brain, just so you know. That rain check will be cashed in. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant