I've got these little bastards at work during the wet season. On a cold wet day, the top metre of the outside walls are black and moving. They get into everything. I have to plug my kettle. Nothing eats them and they smell like corpse when they die on the wet ground.

Blech. I hate these damned things. They come into our lab every spring and just wander around on their merry ways until I either step on them or experiment to see how far they can fall and still survive (there's a large stairway in the back that plummets four or five stories into a basement). Ugly little bastards.

Got off pretty easy this year too

Poisonous liquid secreting hydrogen cyanide gas through pores along the sides of their bodies white-legged snake millipedes?

OMG! Run for your life!!!

EW.

I really have respect for the people that deal with this. I've never experienced this and hope I never have to.

ew.

They're hell to buy shoes for.

Millipedes are harmless.

Centipedes are the real bastards.

Skail

Many small animals can fall an effectively unlimited distance because their terminal velocity is not terminal. Not that it wouldn't be fun to drop a bunch of millipedes out of an airplane over a crowd.

Close call for the vaginas

Even millipedes are getting laid more than I am.

NOT since the threat of the Luftwaffe has such drastic action been necessary.

I did Nazi that coming.

Luckily they're easy to kill. Just move back and forth, shooting rapidly. If a mushroom gets in your way, just shoot that too.

phlegmmo

NOT since the threat of the Luftwaffe has such drastic action been necessary.

I did Nazi that coming.

*facepalm*

Here is what centipedes can do: http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijem/vol2n2/centipede. xml

/Centipedes are much worse

/Anything to take my mind off of TFA

Centipedes and millipedes are distant relatives of lobsters, crayfish and shrimp. Unlike their marine cousins, centipedes and millipedes are land dwellers, but they do prefer moist habitats or areas of high humidity.

Centipedes and millipedes do not carry diseases to man or to his animals and plants. They are usually considered nuisances rather than destructive pests. Millipedes occasionally damage seedling plants by feeding on stems and leaves

Millipedes differ from centipedes in that most body segments are more round and bear two pairs of appendages on each segment instead of one. The head is rounded with short antennae and does not contain poison jaws.

Millipedes are not poisonous, but many species have repugnatorial glands capable of producing irritating fluids which may produce allergic reactions in individuals sensitive to insects or insect toxins. A few millipede species are capable of squirting these fluids over a distance of several inches. Persons handling millipedes will notice a lingering odor on their hands and the fluid can be dangerous to the eyes. It is not advisable to handle millipedes, but when one has been held, hands should be washed with soap and water until the odor is completely gone.

Millipedes feed primarily on decaying organic matter, but may attack roots and leaves of seedling plants. Greenhouses are infested by millipedes more often than other areas where plants are grown. Once a greenhouse becomes infested, control measures usually are necessary.

I'm panicking. I'm farking petrified of centipedes and millipedes...

Old joke..

What goes 999-plunk....999-plunk....999-plunk?

A millipede with a wooden leg.

i'll take millipedes over roaches anyday.

Never move into an apartment with roaches, I learned the hard way.

My prescription?



Fire. And lots of it!

Maybe it's all them crofters? What the heck is crofting???
Sounds like yall need to learn to make some tee shirts and lots of cheap touristy crap out of those things, make a few bucks off the bugs. Eating contests(for people and 'edgehogs), earings, candy, have a festival....as long as the local council gets their due all should be well.

Google??? and we have:

Crofting, essentially, is a system of small-scale subsistence farming that has traditionally supported rural families throughout the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. At another level, it can also be described as a way of life for entire communities - shaping landscapes, influencing village life and providing modest income or agricultural produce for the crofting families that work the land during the course of the seasons.

nonsignor

That picture will haunt my dreams.

I came for the arcade references. I am not disappointed in the least.

/The only good use of DDT I've ever seen.

MetalLizard: Here is what centipedes can do: http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijem/vol2n2/centipede. xml

/Centipedes are much worse

Uh, yeah. But the article specifically says it was the first case they had ever heard of caused by a centipede. Not to mention the primary cause was Necrotizing Facitis, and that can be caused by almost any kind of wound so long as the right kind of bacteria is present. I don't doubt a millipede bite could possibly do the same thing.

I never see any milipedes around here- but my house DOES have a massive colony of pillbugs, spiders and centipedes. I don't hassle the centipedes too much because, well, they eat the pillbugs and any ants that get in. :D

Global warming?
No, seriously.

I'm more freaked out by house centipedes. Thank god they're more prevalent on lower floors, where I don't live.

nonsignor

Millipedes...Why did it have to be millipedes!?!

MetalLizard: Here is what centipedes can do: http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijem/vol2n2/centipede. xml

/Centipedes are much worse

I'm not saying that the intertubes are trying to track our browsing behavior, but that very helpful article about necrotizing fasciitis came to me loaded with two advertisements - one for Gametap, and another for "idealbite.com."

There is a species of black and orange millipede common in the footpaths at Orchards State Park in suburban Vancouver, WA. When disturbed, it puts out a smell similar to bad cheap wine. I've described bad wine as "tasting like the smell of a frightened millipede" for years, but never knew what kind of millipede it was.
Can anybody give me specific, useful information, or at least tell me who or what can?

Erom - I'm in one now. I think I'm farked.

They must know it was the millipedes; the slithering, scurrying millipedes whose scampering will never let me sleep; the daemon millipedes that race behind the padding in this room and beckon me down to greater horrors than I have ever known; the millipedes they can never hear; the millipedes, the millipedes in the walls.

- after H.P. Lovecraft

If the millipedes are attracted to the light, couldn't you set up some cheap lights somewhere else, either in the opposite direction of the homes or inbetween the area where the eggs hatch and the homes to intercept them?

I wonder if you could build a trap by digging some deep holes and and sticking lights in them. Grease the sides up and when the millipedes crawl toward the light, they fall in and can't climb out.

Xhan: I'm more freaked out by house centipedes. Thank god they're more prevalent on lower floors, where I don't live.

Imagine one as big in real life as that one is on your screen.

Crawling on your leg.

It was icky. When you kill the big ones, the goop gets all over.

Braindeath: Erom - I'm in one now. I think I'm farked.

Xhan: I'm more freaked out by house centipedes. Thank god they're more prevalent on lower floors, where I don't live.

We need to get you two together, house centipedes eat roaches and most other pests.

I had a bunch of small beetles in my apartment once (not roaches however, don't remember what they are called) and then one day I noticed I hadn't seen any for a while. I did find a couple of house centipedes however. They left once the "food" ran out.

/loves house centipedes

Apparently a bow & arrow is the preferred method of extermination.

The only infestation I've ever had to deal with was ladybugs.

Millipedes would have me seriously considering relocation. :(((

My cats take care of anything that's smaller than a cat.

Xhan
I'm more freaked out by house centipedes. Thank god they're more prevalent on lower floors, where I don't live.

That is farking disgusting.

This happens in my neighborhood (I'm in NC) every few years or so. Normal pesticides do nothing. I pay my son $1 to vacuum them up in the morning, usually they number in the hundreds. Weird thing is, they come into the basement overnight and by the time we wake up 90% of them are dead. And if you don't get rid of them quick the smell BAD. This includes those in the vacuum cleaner bag, so its pretty expensive cause you have to change the bag every day.

/Been lucky recently, haven't had them in 3 years.

Where is IKillBugs when you need him?

I go camping in the NC/TN mountains on occasion in an area known as the Citico Creek/Slickrock wilderness. Tons of millipedes in that area!

I'd go to sleep at night and find them crawling over my mess gear, tent and curled up in my hiking shoes (make sure you literally knock them boots so you can get rid of them).

Creepy little critters.

EsteeFlwrPot: Xhan
I'm more freaked out by house centipedes. Thank god they're more prevalent on lower floors, where I don't live.

That is farking disgusting.

Ya, centipedes are freaky and FAST when they want to be. Luckily, they are fragile, so a slipper flailed about does the job nicely.

/always relegated to 'kill it!' duty
//doesn't mind
///most of the time

Xhan

Had one of those little buggers go through my apartment one night. I literally watched him go in a direct bee-line for my patio door. All I had to do is open it... then I closed the door and barricaded myself away from the world... ugliest freak'n bug... [shivers]

One friend claims he's heard the suckers make a noise as well when provoked.

Zeebot: My cats take care of anything that's smaller than a cat.

ha-HA!

I like that.

The bat-eating centipede
/obligatory?

Wareq: There is a species of black and orange millipede common in the footpaths at Orchards State Park in suburban Vancouver, WA. When disturbed, it puts out a smell similar to bad cheap wine. I've described bad wine as "tasting like the smell of a frightened millipede" for years, but never knew what kind of millipede it was.
Can anybody give me specific, useful information, or at least tell me who or what can?


This site allows you to post a pic and get an id

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/cent_2.html

I woke up with dozens of these things crawling all over me this morning.