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RE: Help centepede got a neighbor - Momi - 03-06-2007
I always thought it was the tail but I usually cut up the whole thing in the end. Thats really funny. I guess it is the mouth.
RE: Help centepede got a neighbor - Green - 03-06-2007
I always thought my chickens ate centipedes, well i know they eat the smaller ones, but when i threw them a live large one they didnt eat it! Maybe i should stop giving them scratch!
RE: Help centepede got a neighbor - Cindy Blankenship - 03-25-2007
Cut it up with scissors eeew. We found the centipede. I was asleep and my son was working on his computer. He woke me up saying this huge centipede was crawling really fast towards him. OMG. Well I heard they're agressive if you disturb them, such as picking up a rock one's hiding under. Maybe it was going after a bug or crumb of food by his bare feet. Anyway he came out of his room, and we're standing in the hall peeking around his door discussing what to do, and the thing (about 6 inches long) starts heading towards the door to the hall at a pretty good clip. We ran to the kitchen and continued discussing then arguing about how to get rid of it. Meanwhile it's trotting down the hall LOL. Not funny then. My son's idea won. He wanted to smash it with a hammer, and I didn't want him getting that close. Plus I'm squeamish. I wanted to cover it, slide a piece of very sturdy cardboard
under the pan and then flush. So he taped the hammer to the end of the mop handle and by then the thing was almost to the kitchen, and
my fear and squeamishness and turned to anger. Kill the #!$@# I cheered him on. "Mom, I can't believe you said that." Whack. WHACK.
It was very dead. Now by then neither one of us wanted to deal with the mess, so we covered it with a pot, and just in case it resurrected as they do, even though it's head (or was it the tail) was smashed into the carpet, we set a gallon jug of water on top the pan lol. In the morning after more discussion, I decided to be really brave and scrape it up of the carpet with a flat headed shovel. This proved so difficult, I threw a paper towel over it and then did it,with my head half turned lol My son "rescued" me by gallantly carrying the shovel with the mess out onto our upstairs lanai and flinging it towards the plant trimmings pile. Instead it landed straigh below on the downstair's tenant's lawn. So I went down with the shovel and took it to the pile. I felt kinda bad for it at that point. It probably was just trying to catch an evening meal of bugs.
Hopefully that was the last one we'll ever see in the house!
Cindy
Cindy
http://www.CoconutRoads.com
RE: Help centepede got a neighbor - scuba_man7 - 03-25-2007
Cindy-
I have an off-the-wall idea as to how you could really make it tough for bugs to get to you while you sleep.
Check this out: http://www.hypoxico.com/
These are sleep chambers that are used for altitude training. The guy I climb with lives in San Diego, so for six months before a climb he sleeps in one of these so he can be at 9,000’ for eight hours a day.
Since you don’t need to hook up all of the high-altitude stuff, it seems like something you could make as a bug-proofing thing if you have a sewing machine or know someone who does. The general idea would be to make your bed inside a sleep chamber. It would be like a box that had a fabric bottom that was sewn to mosquito netting for the sides and top. If you have a bed with high posts that could be the frame, or you could build a frame. And you can get a big YKK zipper on the internet and just zip in and out.
It’s a little extreme, but you’ll probably get better zzzz’s.
RE: Help centepede got a neighbor - Cindy Blankenship - 03-26-2007
Pretty cool ! Actually I'm sleeping a lot better now since I took Carey's suggestion and placed sticky duct tape around the legs of my
son's bed from the floor up a couple inches.
I've thought of mosquito nets too because if you tuck it in under the mattress, leaving just a place to climb in and then tuck that in, nothing can get to you either. But he likes his cat curled up on his bed, so we opted for the tape. Once I get off the couch, I'll tape my bed legs too.
PS This was my son's first bug kill. Hawaii makes you tough lol
Cindy
Cindy
http://www.CoconutRoads.com
RE: Help centepede got a neighbor - frankiestapleton - 04-06-2007
A coupla scarey things I've heard over the years about insect bites (please correct me if you know better).
One is that you may have been bitten in the past, with little physical side effect. But that doesn't mean you'll always be safe because such stings have an accumulative effect in your body through your lifetime. And this includes bee stings. For myself, I'm noticing greater and more lingering effects from spider bites than I ever had in the past.
Second, once when I started having a very nasty, quick reaction to a centipede bite and didn't know if it was lethal but knew it would take me longer than the 20 minutes I understood you need to get medical care, I called the Hilo Hospital emergency room and they told me to take a Benadryl. In fact, the attendant I spoke with said that's how they would treat you at the hospital.
I've since heard from medics that hikers and others outdoors a long way from emergency care should always carry Benadryl with them for just such occasions. A friend was like 10,000 feet up on Mauna Loa when she got stung by a bee or some other insect and her head swelled up like a watermelon, her eyes completely shut. She was still somewhat swollen when I saw her 2 days later. And there was no way for her to get anywhere for help. Thank goodness she survived that one!
Centipedes seem to like stands of ironwood trees and don't go picking up from stacks of wood, logs or rocks without keeping an eye out for centipedes. Centipede bites seem much nastier than scorpions, and an ant or spider bite used to seem like nothing but not any more!