Bugs always in my bedroom, wtf is this?

[clutterbucker]

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28 LEGS! WTF!

I find these F$%^ing things all over my house...but only once it's been dark for a while and I turn on the lights. This one was in my bedroom 5 minutes ago, and they scare the crap out of my girlfriend.
These little cocksuckers can MOVE.

Any ideas? Do they bite? Do they burrow under your skin, lay eggs, then make you die and explode with their children?

p.s. If you kill their backhalf, their front half will run away with total disregard, so be careful.

[Justin B]

Woah, those are some ugly mofos. No idea what the hell they are, but makes me glad I only see a spider once every few months ;) It looks like a slug with legs! ew

[clutterbucker]

you should see these things move if you don't kill them right away or if they catch you off gaurd. It's probably a good 5mph...I mean, I have to jog to keep up.

Someone help me decide whether this is worth paying an exterminator to come into my home. I've never been bit, but I'm sure that some time in my sleep one will crawl on me, and bite me, and I don't want to die when that happens.

[delatlanta1281]

looks like a diputs.

[Ryan Stewart]

Are they fucking tiny?

My rents used to get those in their sinks and shit, they were always after the water. The Orkin man solved that shit in a hurry but I guess its the bane of living in a forest.

[fretburnr]

its called a House Centipede - my parents' old house had a bunch of 'em.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=house+centipede&btnG=Google+Search

first article on google: http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/iiin/housece.html :

House centipedes feed on small insects, insect larvae, and on spiders. Thus they are beneficial, though most homeowners take a different point-of-view and consider them a nuisance. Technically, the house centipede could bite, but it is considered harmless to people.

I have found that while they're fast and hard to catch, a blast of hair spray will slow them down more and more over the course of a few seconds as it hardens :)

edit: wait, heres more from wikipedia:

The house centipede is capable of biting a human, but this seldom occurs. When it does, it is no worse than a minor bee sting. The worst one can usually expect from a house centipede's bite is some pain and a slight swelling at the location of the bite. The symptoms generally disappear within a few hours. However, the bite can cause health problems for those few who are allergic to the extremely mild venom of its bite, which is similar to that of most normal centipedes. The house centipede's venom is too weak to cause any serious harm to larger pets such as cats and dogs.

[Firestorm]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_centipede

edit: ^ beat me to it -_-

[92 mtechnic cabrio]

dude those little shits would make me scream like a little pansy girl in a split second

[KangamangusDriver]

Try poisoning the sucker with a pasty mix of:

1.)sugar
2.) 20 mule team borax (can be found in laundry detergent at supermarket)

Mix the two together to make a paste. Lay the paste out and hopefully they eat it. I used it to take out an ant invasion at my fiance's rents house.
worked overnight!

Its worth a try, no guarantee. Cheaper than the orkin man

[xLibelle]

only bug that makes me squirm more than those are full grown (silver dollar sized) palmetto bugs, commonly know as the roach. fuck me i hate those things... and guess what, i live in the palmetto state. uhg.

easiest way to handle that is go to home depot or lowes and buy the home instect spray jug. it comes with a teathered spray gun you pull the handle on and give the whole house a douse. spraying once a month (more than enough), it will last more than a year.

[DEV0 E30]

They can't be trusted.

Remember who it's daddy is.

[eighteight325is]

Get a phone book from Texas.
Look up exterminators.
Tell them you want the "100 foot radius of death" surrounding your house.

If you can get them to Buffalo they will gladly oblige :)

[Garageaholic]

uuuuuh.... bedbugs?

[chuckybob]

call orkin. dont want centipedes in your gf's vagina.

[german g]

I've got those damn thing too, aren't they called silverfish? or is that something else...They are fast and when you smash them they leave a big damn mess..I've found afew that were a good 4 inches long..