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When we moved into our house we were disturbed by the house centipedes. I did a quick search online about how to get rid of them, and I mostly found stories of

When we moved into our house we were disturbed by the house centipedes. I did a quick search online about how to get rid of them, and I mostly found stories of the form "Help, I got rid of all my house centipedes and now my home is infested with other bugs! How do I get the house centipedes back?" So we let them be.

hef19898 3y ago
I had a bunch of hornets once. Great, because there were no flies mosquitos anywhere near the house all summer. Unfortunately, the moved out, the hornets, next summer...
gopher_space 3y ago
In my neck of the woods it’s the same deal with spiders. You just escort them outside once they get fat and too lazy to not be on your wall in the daytime.
- fortran77 3y ago
  An indoor spider might not survive outside. Leave it alone! https://www.livescience.com/55270-can-indoor-spiders-survive-outside.html https://www.livescience.com/55270-can-indoor-spiders-survive...
  - gopher_space 3y ago
    There's a spider size limit in this household and they get big enough that I'm not having them walk around unescorted. They go back to the woodpile their ancestors came from.
    - SOLAR_FIELDS 3y ago
      I’ve had to kill a couple particularly nasty ones. In particular I’ve found a wolf spider in my living room and a black widow in my garage. If they have no danger to me, which is most of them, they are happy to continue coexisting with me and eating bugs in my house
      - thaumasiotes 3y ago
        What's particularly nasty about a wolf spider?
        SOLAR_FIELDS 3y ago
        Mainly their size - I’m aware they aren’t really dangerous. But their bite can still hurt. Same as a tarantula
  - xboxnolifes 3y ago
    It can go pay it's own mortgage.
thaumasiotes 3y ago
From Wikipedia in 2005: > House centipedes feed on spiders, termites, cockroaches, silverfish and other household pests. They do not cause damage to food or furniture. > For this reason, house centipedes are considered among the most beneficial creatures that inhabit human dwellings, but because of their alarming appearance few homeowners are willing to share a home with them. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scutigera_coleoptrata&oldid=25023820 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scutigera_coleopt... ) For some reason, this has been stripped from the article, despite obviously being the most useful information that was present in it.

hef19898 3y ago

I had a bunch of hornets once. Great, because there were no flies mosquitos anywhere near the house all summer. Unfortunately, the moved out, the hornets, next summer...

gopher_space 3y ago

In my neck of the woods it’s the same deal with spiders. You just escort them outside once they get fat and too lazy to not be on your wall in the daytime.

fortran77 3y ago
An indoor spider might not survive outside. Leave it alone! https://www.livescience.com/55270-can-indoor-spiders-survive-outside.html https://www.livescience.com/55270-can-indoor-spiders-survive...
- gopher_space 3y ago
  There's a spider size limit in this household and they get big enough that I'm not having them walk around unescorted. They go back to the woodpile their ancestors came from.
  - SOLAR_FIELDS 3y ago
    I’ve had to kill a couple particularly nasty ones. In particular I’ve found a wolf spider in my living room and a black widow in my garage. If they have no danger to me, which is most of them, they are happy to continue coexisting with me and eating bugs in my house
    - thaumasiotes 3y ago
      What's particularly nasty about a wolf spider?
      - SOLAR_FIELDS 3y ago
        Mainly their size - I’m aware they aren’t really dangerous. But their bite can still hurt. Same as a tarantula
- xboxnolifes 3y ago
  It can go pay it's own mortgage.

thaumasiotes 3y ago

From Wikipedia in 2005: > House centipedes feed on spiders, termites, cockroaches, silverfish and other household pests. They do not cause damage to food or furniture. > For this reason, house centipedes are considered among the most beneficial creatures that inhabit human dwellings, but because of their alarming appearance few homeowners are willing to share a home with them. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scutigera_coleoptrata&oldid=25023820 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scutigera_coleopt... ) For some reason, this has been stripped from the article, despite obviously being the most useful information that was present in it.