• 🏴Akuji@leminal.space
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        3 days ago

        Nope!
        Ackshually, it stings, its forcipules aren’t a part of its mouth 🤓
        But when it comes to humans, it’s in reaction to a threat (someone mentioned being stung by one that hid inside their slippers: put yourself in the numerous shoes of a centipede, cornered by a giant fleshy thing invading the cozy place you just found…)
        It would rather flee otherwise.

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        3 days ago

        The centipedes at my mom’s house def bite, it’s very painful. Sometimes you need to go to the hospital.

        Basically never walk around my mom’s house barefoot.

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          3 days ago

          Have you considered cleaning out the house and closing all the gaps?

          I know a lot of these insect threads tend to disagree, but sealing a house and only letting in air through very fine meshes is 100% possible.

          Every time I bring this up people start taking like spiders and bugs can phase through solid walls of wood and caulk.

          While I have no understanding for that, I do however understand that poverty or mental or physical health issues can make it difficult to get your home to not be a gappy mess. Especially as renters have no authority to do that.