You must log in or register to comment.
Maybe if they could wear a suit and say thank you once in a while.
Seriously, they have the arms but they don’t have the cards.
And they horde their rich minerals all to themselves, when they could just ask us to look after it for them. Maybe.
probably my favorite post for the month:)
If they just smiled more they’d be so pretty!
They should try to be dapper like Cho’gath.
I will catch and release spiders outside but centipedes all get the boot. They are just too fast
When I found out that these guys ate spiders as a kid I was super upset I needed to pick sides in the bug war. I chose spiders specifically because I didn’t trust anything that ran away from me that fast. The spiders didn’t have anything to hide.
These little dudes can move 1.3 feet per second which is absolutely insane
Conversion from freedom units 🦅🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅 to metric 🌍🌏 please
2 5$ Footlongs a second
Not American, but this actually helped.
Wait what? $5 footlongs are only like 6.5 inches long? Not that there’s anything wrong with that length. It’s above average really.
Roughly 31 degrees centimeters
No
40cm/s or 1.4km/h
396mm/s.
Which is like 396/1000 of a meter!
Gonna take a long time to move all their feet
Yeah the trick is you gotta decide which order you’re going with first
Weirdly enough there are studies about how millipedes and centipedes move their feet.
oh yeah my dad told me his mechatronics thesis was about building a robot that has legs and moves like a spider … so, almost centipede. he told me they also looked at centipedes just for reference.
I honestly wouldn’t care if it stayed at one or two of them, but I know if I leave these things and treat them as pets I will get an infestation in no time.
And with each new one the chances of me feeling one of them walk on my arm increases, and I am not letting that happen.
They are also territorial and won’t actually eliminate a roach infestation because they will kill each other long before they reach sufficient density to make a difference.
Meh, don’t need them to end an infestation. Just killing the few roaches that might exist somewhere around is enough to pay their rent.
If I find one close to my face on the other hand, the place it considered territory would be wiped off the map. It would become an endangered species.
They should care! It could be a source of selection pressure
yeah would be willing to believe people are more tolerant of e.g. jumping spiders than other kinds
I like web spiders better. They stay in their spot, I stay out of their spot.
That bug has a voice when I read it in my head, and it is creepy as hell
Instead of fumigation, can you breed them, release them in a house to kill all the cockroaches, then lure them back into their mobile home with food?
Every time i see one I have the intense urge to vomit.
These mother fuckers would sometimes drop on me and my father. Creepy fast little fuckers man
what animal is that?
The Devil’s Eyebrow
House centipede
I’ve had spiders and stuff but never a centipede
Same. What we refer to as “centipedes” also looks a lot more like millipedes with less legs. So, their body is longer and the legs shorter.
well yes I’ve seen centipedes before in the garden but never inside as far as I remember
Step 1: Obtain Cat
Step 2: Show the cat your roach infestation
Step 3: ???
Step 4:
Profit?MEOW?(Good for getting rid of mice, doesn’t do much against roaches… 🤷♂️ At least the cat is warm to hold when I’m sad)
I said this the last time this was posted and I’m saying it again
“THEN MAYBE DON’T MOVE SO FUCKING FAST IT ACTIVATES MY FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE!!!”
Sometimes I try to imagine a giant version running around in a proportionally fast speed. That really activates my fight or flight response
Size of a bus, thundering down the freeway at 450 miles an hour
Each leg causing a sonic boom with each step
one of these creepy bastards got inside of my soap dispenser brush thing for doing the dishes. just threw the entire brush away D=
If they weren’t fast enough, how would they catch the cockroaches?
I can catch a lot of things if I sprint, but I don’t usually sprint from the couch to the kitchen.
I miss r/WhatsThisBug
:(
Also, being able to post images, etc. (guess I am starting to be able to on instances I have joined (just got here in recent weeks))
Are you on iNaturalist yet? It’s similar in that you can try to identify all kinds of organisms that get uploaded and you never run out of new ones :)
No, I guess those subs I slowly got interested in but I really haven’t been proactive about looking for other sources. I’ll definitely check it out. Thanks.
Be the change you want to see! Or post on [email protected] ;)
Good idea. I may start
onesomething at some point but I don’t know anything about bugs so I learned a lot over there. All those ID subs were great. Thanks for the entomology suggestion. I’ll definitely check it out.Ha, for everything we’ve lost from there, we have redundancies here.
Thank you very much! I obviously still have a lot of looking around to do.
Thanks, I subscibed to a couple of those.
I can help out with spiders and related stuff!
Why wouldnt posting images work?
Disabled on lemm.ee due to abuse I believe, gotta upload it somewhere else and post the link.
Oh i see :/
Oh, I don’t quite understand fully yet. I was able to post images and gifs in one place, not in others. So, I don’t think it’s a lemm.ee issue but maybe wherever I’m posting, there are different limitations. When I tried to post an image here, it failed.
In a related story: I met with my new housecleaning service a few days ago and told them I had one very special request: DO NOT DISTURB THE SPIDERS IN OUR BEDROOM!! They are my mosquito-munching pets; just mop the floor under them.
I love house spiders
I’M PARANOID ABOUT THE PEOPLE I MEET
