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Start here => What's your crime? Basic Discussion => Topic started by: Jesse on August 29, 2013, 03:56:47 PM
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I feel so awful about calling them so. Because I really don't view them as pests, however have you ever had a mammal or bug problem in your house? We have a mouse. I saw him yesterday and he is adorable, although I didnt get a good look at him because wow, he was like a blur moving across the floor.
We aren't trying to get rid of him though. dunno why just figured he would find his own way out the same way he came in
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We get mice in the shed they don't last long in the house as we have four cats. When I was a kid and lived in Florida we had a lizard that lived in the house next to the chair I sat in to watch tv. I used to watch him eat what must have been some sort of mites, they were tiny, that lived on a plant on the table.
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This cute skunk scared both me and him one time when I was on my walk. he made this really cute noise before turning tail and running off. as you can imagine when I saw his tail pointed at me I ran off aswell :laugh:
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Our garage is an old, former stables. It was infested with mice a year or so ago.
It was so bad, that I couldnt even park my car in the garage. You would open the door, and you would see them scatter :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:
My best friend lives in the flat above the garage, and although she never saw one in her flat, she was so freaked out, that she had to move into the house.
There was far too many mice to catch with traps, so the gardener put out trays of poison for them. I looked in one evening, and there was dozens of mice trying to get at the trays of poison. I almost puked :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:
He had to come back every day to pick up the bodies of the dead ones :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:
Im still traumatized by the experience :laugh:
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The only rodent I have been afraid of was a possum. DAMN, are they Ugly. :P
I saw one crawling out of a trashcan once. It had a few long hairs on its back and was a wrinkled pink, :zombiefuck:
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Outside we get skunks, raccoons and possums knocking over our garbage cans. We also have a woodchuck in the yard which I am trying to get to leave by filling his burrows with gravel with some pepper thrown in for good measure. The mice in the shed don't bother me much as long as they stay out of my flea market bins
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We get a mouse in the shed every now and then.
Mice can do some major damage though, especially if you get one that takes up residence in your car. I spent a lot of time re-wiring a 69 VW after storing it in my uncle's barn for a year.
We have a moles a plenty, a groundhog that hangs around the back porch, raccoons, possums, rabbits everywhere, feral cats, deer that trim back my bushes every winter, a flock of turkeys this spring, hawks, and every now and then the occasional coyote. The moles are annoying, but not pests, the rest just kind of chill in the yard and you spot them every so often. I could seriously live without the snakes though... a small copperhead every now and then doesn't phase me too much, the 6 ft+ long black snakes... :zombiefuck:
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I used to have a cat that ate them. Now I just set traps. When I catch one, I toss him/her in the pond so the fish get food. That way the death wasn't a waste.
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Turkeys mean serious business. I was chased by one by accidently looking at her cute babies
I guess now that I think of it, a lot of animals are out there. :apondering:
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I had a male turkey that was trying to impress the ladies attack my car once :green:
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I've been finding bugs and spiders. Actually, first I found the spider. Then I Found the bug. But the spider was so much littler than the bug, so it hardly matters.
I need more spiders, fewer bugs. :GA:
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I've been finding bugs and spiders. Actually, first I found the spider. Then I Found the bug. But the spider was so much littler than the bug, so it hardly matters.
I need more spiders, fewer bugs. :GA:
Will gladly send you more spiders. :zombiefuck:
I really, really dislike spiders. Especially the large wolf variety around here. Creepy fuckers.
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Somebody told me that if you have Wolf spiders around its good because they eat Widows. (black widows)
Don't know if its true however
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Fucking gopher mad a mess digging in the shed again :grrr: I jammed the hose in the hole pushed gravel down it then covered it with bricks and let the water run 15 minutes with some dish soap added in the hose for sudsy goodness
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I ripped off a goose's head once. Geese taste like shit.
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I've been finding bugs and spiders. Actually, first I found the spider. Then I Found the bug. But the spider was so much littler than the bug, so it hardly matters.
I need more spiders, fewer bugs. :GA:
Will gladly send you more spiders. :zombiefuck:
I really, really dislike spiders. Especially the large wolf variety around here. Creepy fuckers.
They do freak me out when they spring suddenly out of nowhere. But they don't carry diseases like bugs. Roaches especially. The spider I found was really tiny, and caught in my sink. Possibly on the verge of drowning in a little droplet of water. I scooped him out and flung him out my window. Maybe he dried off.
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Actually I think spiders are cool.
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Im terrified of spiders :-[ Im scared of most insects :-[
I can catch them in a box, and then throw them out, but I could never touch them.
Evil little bastards :grrr:
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I keep spiders and mantises as pets all the time.
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My friend's son was attacked and bitten in his yard by a rabid fox. He had shots and he is OK now. :orly:
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A fed animal is a dead animal.
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Our garage is an old, former stables. It was infested with mice a year or so ago.
It was so bad, that I couldnt even park my car in the garage. You would open the door, and you would see them scatter :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:
My best friend lives in the flat above the garage, and although she never saw one in her flat, she was so freaked out, that she had to move into the house.
There was far too many mice to catch with traps, so the gardener put out trays of poison for them. I looked in one evening, and there was dozens of mice trying to get at the trays of poison. I almost puked :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:
He had to come back every day to pick up the bodies of the dead ones :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:
Im still traumatized by the experience :laugh:
Solution without poison, but, with killing mice and rats.
EKO 1000 rat fall functioning (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-whjmxFI49Q#)
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I had a house infested with mice, last winter. Hope it will not happen again. With two cats, there still were mice. I think it was the dry conditions that made it possible for mice to tunnel towards my house, and then get into it via double walls with insulation.
One mouse in a cage may be cute. Two mice equals lots of mice in just a very short time. And, a mouse has no bladder, so it leaks urine all the time, when and where ever it goes. Yuck!
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I had a house infested with mice, last winter. Hope it will not happen again. With two cats, there still were mice. I think it was the dry conditions that made it possible for mice to tunnel towards my house, and then get into it via double walls with insulation.
One mouse in a cage may be cute. Two mice equals lots of mice in just a very short time. And, a mouse has no bladder, so it leaks urine all the time, when and where ever it goes. Yuck!
I first heard that on one of my hoarding shows. They are very educational! :tv:
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I had a house infested with mice, last winter. Hope it will not happen again. With two cats, there still were mice. I think it was the dry conditions that made it possible for mice to tunnel towards my house, and then get into it via double walls with insulation.
One mouse in a cage may be cute. Two mice equals lots of mice in just a very short time. And, a mouse has no bladder, so it leaks urine all the time, when and where ever it goes. Yuck!
I first heard that on one of my hoarding shows. They are very educational! :tv:
:indeed: They should make watching them compulsory. :M
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I got loads of spiders outside, and sometimes inside. They're okay as long as they respect my personal space, and they do, much much better than flies.
I ate some caramel the other day, went out for a cig, and spit caramel-tainted saliva on the wall. Long-leggy spiders have been gorging on my crusted up saliva for three days. They're so charming!
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Long-leggy spiders have been gorging on my crusted up saliva for three days. They're so charming!
That is both disgusting and hilarious
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Our garage is an old, former stables. It was infested with mice a year or so ago.
It was so bad, that I couldnt even park my car in the garage. You would open the door, and you would see them scatter :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:
My best friend lives in the flat above the garage, and although she never saw one in her flat, she was so freaked out, that she had to move into the house.
There was far too many mice to catch with traps, so the gardener put out trays of poison for them. I looked in one evening, and there was dozens of mice trying to get at the trays of poison. I almost puked :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:
He had to come back every day to pick up the bodies of the dead ones :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:
Im still traumatized by the experience :laugh:
Solution without poison, but, with killing mice and rats.
EKO 1000 rat fall functioning (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-whjmxFI49Q#)
OMG, that is gross :laugh: The poor mice fall into a pool of alcohol, to preserve their corpse :zombiefuck: I wouldnt like to be the one to empty it :laugh:
It does seem better than having corpses strewn across the driveway and garage though :laugh:
I suppose I should get used to this kind of thing. Im guessing that mice, rats, insects, and cockroaches will be quite common in Budapest. Ive heard that theres cockroaches :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:
Im kinda thinking of getting my own house, so I might have to deal with things like that by myself :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:
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I can move in by you and help you with your mice :eyelash:
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I can move in by you and help you with your mice :eyelash:
Youd need to be able to help me with spiders and cockroaches too :laugh:
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No problem. I don't fear creeps. Creeps fear me :M
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No problem. I don't fear creeps. Creeps fear me :M
Anybody who isnt scared of cockroaches is :viking:
Ive never even seen a cockroach, and Im fucking terrified of them :-[
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Fortes este, Papiliones! :viking:
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Fortes este, Papiliones! :viking:
Forti in perpetuum :viking:
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Bene! Puella proba fortisque es! :viking:
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Our garage is an old, former stables. It was infested with mice a year or so ago.
It was so bad, that I couldnt even park my car in the garage. You would open the door, and you would see them scatter :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:
My best friend lives in the flat above the garage, and although she never saw one in her flat, she was so freaked out, that she had to move into the house.
There was far too many mice to catch with traps, so the gardener put out trays of poison for them. I looked in one evening, and there was dozens of mice trying to get at the trays of poison. I almost puked :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:
He had to come back every day to pick up the bodies of the dead ones :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:
Im still traumatized by the experience :laugh:
Solution without poison, but, with killing mice and rats.
EKO 1000 rat fall functioning (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-whjmxFI49Q#)
OMG, that is gross :laugh: The poor mice fall into a pool of alcohol, to preserve their corpse :zombiefuck: I wouldnt like to be the one to empty it :laugh:
It does seem better than having corpses strewn across the driveway and garage though :laugh:
I suppose I should get used to this kind of thing. Im guessing that mice, rats, insects, and cockroaches will be quite common in Budapest. Ive heard that theres cockroaches :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:
Im kinda thinking of getting my own house, so I might have to deal with things like that by myself :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck: :zombiefuck:
Not that gross. The alcohol kills the mice and rats rapidly, way quicker than poison does. Poison makes them die of internal bleeding. And if other critters eat their carcasses, it may happen to them too.
Also, more and more mice and rats become immune to the poison. The animals that prey on them are not that immune.
But, yes, having to empty that thing now and then will not be the most pleasant house chore of the year. :GA:
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No problem. I don't fear creeps. Creeps fear me :M
Anybody who isnt scared of cockroaches is :viking:
Ive never even seen a cockroach, and Im fucking terrified of them :-[
Afraid of that which you have not experienced eh?
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No problem. I don't fear creeps. Creeps fear me :M
Anybody who isnt scared of cockroaches is :viking:
Ive never even seen a cockroach, and Im fucking terrified of them :-[
Afraid of that which you have not experienced eh?
I kinda felt the same way about willies :laugh:
I do have experience of insects, and I know I hate them. Ive heard that cockroaches are scarier than most other insects, so they are clearly something to be feared :laugh:
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No problem. I don't fear creeps. Creeps fear me :M
Anybody who isnt scared of cockroaches is :viking:
Ive never even seen a cockroach, and Im fucking terrified of them :-[
I have seen some, though not in my apartment. :P
I kind of admire their resilience. I have heard that they could outlast US and survive all kinds of disasters.
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No problem. I don't fear creeps. Creeps fear me :M
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I don't see whats scary about roaches. Other than the potential as disease vector, but if that were the only reason then one would live their entire lives shitting bricks, as theres potential disease everywhere.
Although some of their traits are not exactly endearing....know of anything else that starves to death before actually snuffing it after losing its head?
And ew....seen a pic and report from a bug keeper's forum of one that had half its abdomen bitten off by something and kept on going for a while.
And butterflies, if thats the case, maybe you just need to fuck a cockroach?
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I don't see whats scary about roaches. Other than the potential as disease vector, but if that were the only reason then one would live their entire lives shitting bricks, as theres potential disease everywhere.
Although some of their traits are not exactly endearing....know of anything else that starves to death before actually snuffing it after losing its head?
And ew....seen a pic and report from a bug keeper's forum of one that had half its abdomen bitten off by something and kept on going for a while.
And butterflies, if thats the case, maybe you just need to fuck a cockroach?
:LMAO:
:plus: for creative solutions
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No problem. I don't fear creeps. Creeps fear me :M
Anybody who isnt scared of cockroaches is :viking:
Ive never even seen a cockroach, and Im fucking terrified of them :-[
I have seen some, though not in my apartment. :P
I kind of admire their resilience. I have heard that they could outlast US and survive all kinds of disasters.
Thats kinda part of what grosses me out. Theyre like the evil super-villains of the insect world :laugh:
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I don't see whats scary about roaches. Other than the potential as disease vector, but if that were the only reason then one would live their entire lives shitting bricks, as theres potential disease everywhere.
Although some of their traits are not exactly endearing....know of anything else that starves to death before actually snuffing it after losing its head?
And ew....seen a pic and report from a bug keeper's forum of one that had half its abdomen bitten off by something and kept on going for a while.
And butterflies, if thats the case, maybe you just need to fuck a cockroach?
It did work for willies :headbang2: :headbang2: :headbang2:
But yuk. Roaches are even scarier than willies :laugh:
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I don't see whats scary about roaches. Other than the potential as disease vector, but if that were the only reason then one would live their entire lives shitting bricks, as theres potential disease everywhere.
Although some of their traits are not exactly endearing....know of anything else that starves to death before actually snuffing it after losing its head?
And ew....seen a pic and report from a bug keeper's forum of one that had half its abdomen bitten off by something and kept on going for a while.
And butterflies, if thats the case, maybe you just need to fuck a cockroach?
It did work for willies :headbang2: :headbang2: :headbang2:
But yuk. Roaches are even scarier than willies :laugh:
Nothing is scarier than willies! They give me the willies! :runaway:
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Speaking of bugs, occasionally I see a centipede in the laundry room in my building. I first saw one in 1999.
I like to pretend it's the same one every time, which is unlikely ( they can live for three, five, even six years
depending upon species, but not for 14 years I'm sure ), and whenever I see one I think, "Centy! You're still alive!" :laugh:
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My spiders seem to really love the piles of paper and general junk I've got in here. I'm considering destroying hteir habitat, and I feel a little guilty over that, but of course there have to be insects in there somewhere for them to survive.
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My spiders seem to really love the piles of paper and general junk I've got in here. I'm considering destroying hteir habitat, and I feel a little guilty over that, but of course there have to be insects in there somewhere for them to survive.
You know what else love paper, books, clothing, hair, dander, and a bunch of other stuff? Silverfish! :nerdy:
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My spiders seem to really love the piles of paper and general junk I've got in here. I'm considering destroying their habitat, and I feel a little guilty over that, but of course there have to be insects in there somewhere for them to survive.
You know what else love paper, books, clothing, hair, dander, and a bunch of other stuff? Silverfish! :nerdy:
Yup, seen a few of those. I looked 'em up, though, and they aren't a problem.
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My spiders seem to really love the piles of paper and general junk I've got in here. I'm considering destroying their habitat, and I feel a little guilty over that, but of course there have to be insects in there somewhere for them to survive.
You know what else love paper, books, clothing, hair, dander, and a bunch of other stuff? Silverfish! :nerdy:
Yup, seen a few of those. I looked 'em up, though, and they aren't a problem.
Unless they nibble on your books. I saw a picture of a paperback nibbled by silverfish.
They're so tiny, they just ate a layer of color off the cover! They're evasive and fast-moving, too! :laugh:
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I don't allow any creeps to nibble on my books! I'll kill them! :arrr:
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My spiders seem to really love the piles of paper and general junk I've got in here. I'm considering destroying their habitat, and I feel a little guilty over that, but of course there have to be insects in there somewhere for them to survive.
You know what else love paper, books, clothing, hair, dander, and a bunch of other stuff? Silverfish! :nerdy:
Yup, seen a few of those. I looked 'em up, though, and they aren't a problem.
Unless they nibble on your books. I saw a picture of a paperback nibbled by silverfish.
They're so tiny, they just ate a layer of color off the cover! They're evasive and fast-moving, too! :laugh:
Hmm, I guess I better pack up the mess afterall then.
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I don't allow any creeps to nibble on my books! I'll kill them! :arrr:
But what if they're clever, and wait till you're asleep? :zoinks:
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I don't allow any creeps to nibble on my books! I'll kill them! :arrr:
But what if they're clever, and wait till you're asleep? :zoinks:
I'll kill them in my sleep! Caesar would have done that! :arrr:
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I don't allow any creeps to nibble on my books! I'll kill them! :arrr:
But what if they're clever, and wait till you're asleep? :zoinks:
I'll kill them in my sleep! Caesar would have done that! :arrr:
You'll probably just end up trashing your room. The little pests will get away! :laugh:
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How big was the centipede? there are some pretty big buggers in the US.
Just don't ever try picking one up without a lot of protective gear, they are VERY fast, highly aggressive, and pack a hell of a painful bite. even tiny ones, especially the Scolopendra spp. will really let you know about it. I'd really hate to get nipped by the Scolopendras. One of them at least is known to have killed a child. And one of my natural history textbooks actually compares having to handle one to being more like wrestling a snake than insect.
As for the spiders around books I would leave them there. Spiders, with only 1-2 exceptions are ALL exclusive carnivores which will predate upon the little bugs that DO damage books.
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"Centy" is only an inch or so long, but I respect his potential to sting, so I leave him alone. :laugh:
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I hate earwigs. I squash them whenever I see one.
And lately we have had a lot of small moths. They like to hang out in the toilet for some reason.
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They have small lizards in Florida that are everywhere but they are not the problem they eat the problems. They can get in under my mother's screen door and hang out near the light by the door and eat the bugs that fly up to it
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I want a few of those. :zoinks:
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The result of your average small house centipede isn't horrendous. Its the big bastards, Scolopendra spp. that will leave people screaming. Some of those grow up to a foot in length, give or take a bit either way. And the venom of those things is pretty powerful. Seen footage once of a giant cave centipede hanging with half its body onto a cave roof, and with the other half, snatching a bat out of the air, the bat was dead in maybe 15-20 seconds.
Most unlikely to kill a healthy adult human, although capable of killing young children (the really large kinds, not house centipedes) but from what I've heard about getting nipped by one, they REALLY hurt. And they aren't shy in the least about doing it either.
Also apparently, giant centipedes are very, very strong for an invertebrate. I have read in some documentary-film-style books covering them that handling a giant centipede is much closer to wrestling with a small python (I.e of not greatly larger size than the centipede) than it is to trying to hold any other insect. lightening quick, damn bad tempered and unlike a snake they won't give a warning if they get pissed off, they will just go for it and 'bite' (what look like fangs, aren't true jaws, the poison delivery apparatus of centipedes rather, is a modified pair of front legs which serve the same purpose as snake/spider fangs)
And from that docu I saw...fucking hell they have a fast strike too, the giant cave centipede taking the bat, was too quick to follow with the eye, one moment hanging around, the next, munching on a now dead bat it had just plucked from the air.
And here, some interesting trivia (although very, VERY unlikely to become a pest in, or even to enter a house)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scolopendra_cataracta Up to almost 10 inches long, not huge for a giant centipede, but this species is at least partially aquatic, scurrying along the bottom of riverbeds in its native environment (southeast asia) and reportedly, even swimming, like an eel, according to the wikipedia article. This would make it the only (known) centipede species to be aquatic.
Aside from one other, Scolopendra weebliphagus, from the greek 'ουβλ' (a rounded, jolly, eggshaped that wobbles, but which will not fall down' and φαγην' ''phagein' that which eats', these like to live in damp, humid places such as the crevices of toilets, cisterns and taps, where until their prey approaches in the dark (like most centipedes they are nocturnal or diurnal), they rely on their very flexible bodies, to squeeze into small spaces within which to wait, catch their prey and suck its juicy guts out) and once detecting their ουβλ victim, out they come, through the U-bend and snatch it, dragging it down into the sewers to feast at leisure.
In fact, lately, studies have shown, from the piles of ουβλεε bones found down in sewers in close to proximity to the nests of these centipedes, previously thought rare, that they are in fact not, and numbers of both disappearing jolly egg-like creatures that whilst wobblesome, never fall down, curiously, always it seems, at night when the ουβλεε has gone to use the toilet, that numbers of the weebliphagous reallyreally REALLY giant centipede are far bigger than first thought, and what is more, the population size is increasing dramatically. Especially in the US, perhaps due to the availability of prey, sufficient to provide enough juicy ουβλ-guts to sustain themselves and their young, the latter of which like to nest in the ears of developing to middle-aged ουβλ specimens.
Sometimes it is easy to tell when such a midnight attack has taken place, by the occurrence of a hand and wrist, grasping the rim of the toilet bowl from which this unusual kind of centipede has pounced and dragged off the ουβλ prey to consume down in the sewers and provision for any young, which will in time, develop after a period of pupation within the ear canal of (typically, but not always) developing juvenile ουβλ. They have been known to spend their growth phase and undergo metamorphosis to the adult stage within the ears of fully grown adult hosts, after going through the larval stages and preceding the final exit from the host, this centipede species burrows through the ear and enters the skull cavity, inside which it consumes the brain, similar in principle to how spider-hunting wasps of the genera Pepsis and Hemipepsis paralyze spiders and lay eggs on them, the larvae of which burrow within the spider, eating it alive before the adult wasp bursts out), for a final high-calorie meal enabling the young ουβλ-eating centipede to burst out of the skull of the ουβλ husk, like one of those things from the alien movies, the young that hatch from the eggs laid in the chest of the victim by the facehuggers, that eat their way through the chest then burst squealing out of the victim's chest before slithering off to avoid of course, the obligatory missing burst of gunfire if the alien series wasn't going to make for shit movies.
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^ Yikes. "My" centipedes are only an inch or so long, and they're pretty timid. :orly: