06-28-2008, 05:57 AM
>>>Have seen several pedes, but rarely in the house - we find 'em dead on the garage floor - I think the PH in the cement kills them.
That is definitely not true. Centipedes love to hang out on concrete slabs and are quite at home in garages. When they're found dead it's usually because somebody applied insecticide.
The thing about centipedes is they will come into your house, into your bed, and bite you. Or hide out in your clothes, shoes, hats ... and bite you. They will come in through cracks, under screen doors. They will live inside your walls and come in if you take off an outlet plate or take off a piece of trim, any puka. They come up through the drains even.
Once that has happened to you, and if you get bitten in the middle of the night while you're sleeping, you will fear and loathe pedes.
My arm swelled up, it was super painful for two hours, I got hives and had to take prednisone, and I was told 50% of their bites will turn into a nasty staph infection. The venom stays in the tissues and can continue to react for a whole month.
While they are not as bad as a brown recluse bite, perhaps, they are quite bad.
The cane spiders look ugly but I have no fear of them. I fear things that can cause a lot of pain and give me an infection ... and that crawl into my bed at night!
That is definitely not true. Centipedes love to hang out on concrete slabs and are quite at home in garages. When they're found dead it's usually because somebody applied insecticide.
The thing about centipedes is they will come into your house, into your bed, and bite you. Or hide out in your clothes, shoes, hats ... and bite you. They will come in through cracks, under screen doors. They will live inside your walls and come in if you take off an outlet plate or take off a piece of trim, any puka. They come up through the drains even.
Once that has happened to you, and if you get bitten in the middle of the night while you're sleeping, you will fear and loathe pedes.
My arm swelled up, it was super painful for two hours, I got hives and had to take prednisone, and I was told 50% of their bites will turn into a nasty staph infection. The venom stays in the tissues and can continue to react for a whole month.
While they are not as bad as a brown recluse bite, perhaps, they are quite bad.
The cane spiders look ugly but I have no fear of them. I fear things that can cause a lot of pain and give me an infection ... and that crawl into my bed at night!