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Barbara McDevitt

8 Years Ago

Can You Identify This Insect?

Found crawling on my basement door. Do I kill it or let it live?

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Jim Hughes

8 Years Ago

Just an ordinary centipede, found in basements everywhere. They look nasty and they're fast. But I think they keep down the population of other creepy-crawlers that they prey on.

I usually kill them if I see them, but they're always there.

 

Barbara McDevitt

8 Years Ago

Thank you Jim I think I will let this one live. For now.

 

Sarah Kersey

8 Years Ago

From: www.americanpestcontrolinc.com/centipedes-millipedes

Centipedes actually have the ability to bite, and are poisonous. The poison from their fangs, located behind the head, is used to kill insects, which are their primary food. To a human, a bite feels like that of a bee sting, and can be dangerous,especially if there is an allergic reaction in response to the bite.

My mother had a severe reaction to a centipede bite, so naturally I snuff them out when I see on.

 

John Wills

8 Years Ago

Common house centipede. Always save them if possible. The days of stepping on insects are long gone for me, they each have a purpose and a role to play. These guys are very sensitive to pressure so they are difficult to capture safely. They're legs seem to fall off with the slightest pressure. I let them crawl onto a paper towel then let them go outside. But you have to be quick about it, have a plan in place before trying.

 

Mike Savad

8 Years Ago

hammers work well, mallets are better, they are fast...


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

 

Teresa White

8 Years Ago

Sorry horrible and creepy,
l would have too kill it!!

 

Dorothy Berry-Lound

8 Years Ago

Guys instead of killing it try catching it in a glass and putting it outside.

 

Roy Erickson

8 Years Ago

I seldom encourage the killing of any wild animal, bug, or other - but, fire ants, roaches, mosquitoes, copperheads, cottonmouth moccasins, and centipedes (if they be in or around human habitations with kids, even big adults, or animals) - they are dead.

 

John Wills

8 Years Ago

Ticks are the only thing I'll put to slumber, everything else gets a fair chance of survival.

 

Kevin Callahan

8 Years Ago

That is actually a silverfish,

https://www.google.com/search?q=silverfish+bug&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=p8iJVZv8KMGggwTo56-4Aw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1190&bih=608#imgrc=3K_OLTL7v6ie0M%253A%3BkZFtRrWbXpAW3M%3Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fletterstofuturelifeforms.files.wordpress.com%252F2012%252F08%252Fsilverfish.jpg%3Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fletterstofuturelifeforms.wordpress.com%252F2012%252F08%252F21%252Fspiders%252F%3B690%3B503

We have the damned things and can not get rid of them. They will get into your clothes and eat holes, not to mention they are creepy. I spray the edges inside and out of the house. The barrier kills them when they cross it, but the dirt here seems to hold lots of them, as I see them outside in our flower plots too.

 

Jane McIlroy

8 Years Ago

Kevin, I wish I hadn't followed that link now... :(

 

Valenteana J Chilsted

8 Years Ago

Well it is a good picture of it thow..lol

 

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