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I miss r/WhatsThisBug
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Also, being able to post images, etc. (guess I am starting to be able to on instances I have joined (just got here in recent weeks))
Be the change you want to see! Or post on !entomology@mander.xyz ;)
Good idea. I may start one at some point but I don’t know anything about bugs so I learned a lot over there. All those ID subs were great. Thanks for the entomology suggestion. I’ll definitely check it out.
Thanks, I subscibed to a couple of those.
I can help out with spiders and related stuff!
Why wouldnt posting images work?
Disabled on lemm.ee due to abuse I believe, gotta upload it somewhere else and post the link.
Oh i see :/
Are you on iNaturalist yet? It’s similar in that you can try to identify all kinds of organisms that get uploaded and you never run out of new ones :)
No, I guess those subs I slowly got interested in but I really haven’t been proactive about looking for other sources. I’ll definitely check it out. Thanks.
I used to live in an apartment they sometimes showed up in and if I went to take a shower and one of them was in the tub, I would leave. The bathroom was occupied.
How about knocking first? Rude.
A locust flew into my bedroom one summer night. Large, brown, scuttling winged thing with the mass of a tennis ball (exaggeration).
I quietly exited the room and slept in the bathtub. I carefully went one-by-one through my things during the day but I could never locate it, only hear it buzzing somewhere.
I slept in the bathtub for three nights before I my roommate came and flushed it out. By then I was ready to move out.
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The Devil’s Eyebrow
House centipede
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Same. What we refer to as “centipedes” also looks a lot more like millipedes with less legs. So, their body is longer and the legs shorter.
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These little dudes can move 1.3 feet per second which is absolutely insane
Gonna take a long time to move all their feet
Yeah the trick is you gotta decide which order you’re going with first
Weirdly enough there are studies about how millipedes and centipedes move their feet.
oh yeah my dad told me his mechatronics thesis was about building a robot that has legs and moves like a spider … so, almost centipede. he told me they also looked at centipedes just for reference.
Conversion from freedom units 🦅🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲🦅 to metric 🌍🌏 please
No
40cm/s or 1.4km/h
Roughly 31 degrees centimeters
2 5$ Footlongs a second
Not American, but this actually helped.
Wait what? $5 footlongs are only like 6.5 inches long? Not that there’s anything wrong with that length. It’s above average really.
396mm/s.
Which is like 396/1000 of a meter!
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Same little guy. Same. Not the eating cockroaches tho, thanks but thats gross.
My basement spiders get them. I love my basement spiders.
Every time i see one I have the intense urge to vomit.
Now I have Good Charlotte playing in my head.
Maybe if they could wear a suit and say thank you once in a while.
Seriously, they have the arms but they don’t have the cards.
And they horde their rich minerals all to themselves, when they could just ask us to look after it for them. Maybe.
probably my favorite post for the month:)
If they just smiled more they’d be so pretty!
They should try to be dapper like Cho’gath.
I’M PARANOID ABOUT THE PEOPLE I MEET
What Kind of animal is this?
House centipede
does it bite
Yeah, Roaches
It is harmless to people
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.put yourself in the numerous shoes of a centipede
that was funny
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.
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.
I honestly wouldn’t care if it stayed at one or two of them, but I know if I leave these things and treat them as pets I will get an infestation in no time.
And with each new one the chances of me feeling one of them walk on my arm increases, and I am not letting that happen.
They are also territorial and won’t actually eliminate a roach infestation because they will kill each other long before they reach sufficient density to make a difference.
Meh, don’t need them to end an infestation. Just killing the few roaches that might exist somewhere around is enough to pay their rent.
If I find one close to my face on the other hand, the place it considered territory would be wiped off the map. It would become an endangered species.
I will catch and release spiders outside but centipedes all get the boot. They are just too fast
When I found out that these guys ate spiders as a kid I was super upset I needed to pick sides in the bug war. I chose spiders specifically because I didn’t trust anything that ran away from me that fast. The spiders didn’t have anything to hide.
