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I got bitten by this hell spawn. I was sleeping and I guess I was stretching my leg and laid my leg on top of this thing.
I have never felt so much pain in my life. It felt like my skin was melting and burning at the same time. For the next few weeks, the bite mark would randomly start to puss and random shots of pain.
I’d rather have roaches. At least with roaches, they don’t bite.
Standard house centipedes (I’m pretty sure that’s what’s in this comic) aren’t supposed to have a very painful bite. You may have been bitten by a different kind of centipede, or maybe had an allergic reaction, for your pain to be so severe.
yea the other type of centipedes are nearly the worst kind of bite you can get. the giant ones that catch bats and eat mice.
Where are they native so I can potentially live the remainder of my life in irrational fear?
I got stung/bit by one of those little bastards once in the shower. Usually they don’t bother humans and their mouth stingers(kind of like legs that are turned into venomous fangs for killing other bugs) can’t really go deep enough, but I guess this one got motivated once he started drowning and crawled up my leg.
Makes me wonder if we ever do meet intelligent aliens will we instantly try to kill them not because we’re a tribe based war loving species, but if it’s simply because we’re so absolutely and deeply repulsed by something so different than us on an instinctual level.
Have you ever met a Belgian? Same thing
Creepiest house bug ever. I let them be because they eat other bugs.
If you ever see a lot of them you’ve got another problem, that means they have a lot to eat. Could be an infestation of other bugs like roaches or a dead animal in the walls.
If you ever see a lot of them you’ve got another problem, that means they have a lot to eat.
But… not for long, so problem solved soon, right? Right?
According to a random comment I saw once, these things will happily eat each other if there’s no other bugs to eat. So basically yes… unless your house has a continuous influx of new bugs.
This is also why they aren’t actually great at pest control. They are pretty territorial so their populations never get big enough to make a serious dent. It’s perfectly fine to kill them.
Despite the name, no centipede has exactly 100 pairs of legs; number of legs ranges from 15 pairs to 191 pairs, always an odd number. (wikipedia)
wtf is going on with these guys
I mean, I have an odd number of leg pairs. You probably do too?
yeah but the range of leg pairs for humans is (comparatively) much more tame. this would be like if humans had 1-12.3 leg pairs. and crazier still, humans were named something like “6 legged beings”
Even stranger, the OP shows a millipede, not a centipede
There should be a fifth panel that’s says:
“Your chances are worse when you look like that.”
Creepy. And I learned something. Reminds me of another comic strip that cracked me up. The gist:
God said to the insects “you may each pick three traits.” The millipede said, “I want legs!” The centipede agreed. God nodded. “And for your second trait?” The millipede smiled brightly and said “More legs!” The centipede request the same. God asked for their final request. “More legs!” The millipede shouted smiling even brighter The centipede gave a sinister grin and growled. “Teeth.”
That’s a great joke. The millipede’s enthusiasm is oddly endearing
Neither centipedes nor millipedes are insects.
You have them backwards. Centipedes are the ones with more legs
Google tells me you’re the one who has them backwards. Here’s an article from Carnegie Natural History Museum explaining the difference.
it’s extremely obvious that you’re incorrect if you simply look at the words, “centi” means “hundred” and is smaller than “milli” which means “thousand”.
centipedes look like they have a hundred legs, millipedes look like they have a thousand legs.
Ah, but millimeters are 1/1000 of a meter, which means millipedes actually have 1/1000 of a leg /s
“Centipede” means 100 feet.
“Millipede” means 1000 feet.
I am aware of how prefixes work
What kind of insect is that? I can’t think of anything with that many legs that eats cockroaches.
Insects have 6 legs. If I had to guess its a centipede drawn with too many legs per segment.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata
Commonly known as a house or carpet centipede.
The drawing is pretty accurate.
I wish I had a couple of these guys. Nothing else I’ve done has gotten rid of the roaches in this shit-ass apartment. Might as well try more bugs.
Do you like reptiles? One of the reasons I got a lizard was so the occasional escaped feeder cricket could ravage the cockroach population in my shitty apartment. That mixed with diatomaceous earth has nearly elimated all roach sightings.
these mfs are usually a canary in a coal mine. if you start seeing these everywhere in your house, chances are you have roaches.
If you start seeing canaries everywhere in your coal mine, chances are you have a lethal gas leak. wait what?
canaries are gases’ natural predator
