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Hello,
I have been scared by several centipedes in my garage. I am extremely frightened of these beasts and want to know ways of getting rid of them?
I am not at the point of getting chickens yet.
Would gettin cedar shavings and laying them around the perimeter of the house do anything? I heard a lot of bugs don't like cedar, don't know if this applies to centipedes or ants?
Stan
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Just put some pot around the peimeter, and they will mellow out, and go away.
Always do what evers next.
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We have a large, elderly mixed breed female dog who loves to kill centipedes. She comes up behind them and snaps them in half before they can swing around and bite her. She somehow has managed to only get bitten once, and it hardly seemed to bother her. It certainly didn't stop her as she still chases them with great relish.
Cheers,
Jerry
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Haaa! That's very cool of her!
Hazen used to tease me about them before we moved here...I was having Godzilla vs. the Centipede nightmares LOL. We've seen a few (7 or 8) in the nearly one year here, but several have crawled into the garage and they almost look like they're sleeping. It makes for easy ripping and smashing LOL!! I'm not checking the bedsheets at night anymore, happily.  ))
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I would like to hear more about the Hawaiian centipedes: their size, what they can do to you, where they hang out, and any natural-type remedies if you're bitten - or is it stung? I've never met one yet, and I'm not looking forward to it. Oh, does any bird or animal eat them?
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Hawai'i has the accidentally introduced Giant Centipede, Scolopendra subspinipes. The reddish brown adults are 6" or larger. Smaller immature ones have blue legs. They are supposed to be a lowland arthropod, but I see small centipedes in upper Puna at 4000'. They are nocturnal and hunt for other insects, worms, slugs, and geckos. During the day, they like to seek out dark, moist places. Like silverfish, scorpions, and sowbugs they seem to favor narrow spaces. There have been discussions in other threads about the painful bites (use the forum's search function). Ice will help to reduce the resultant swelling and can be an analgesic, too. Here's a way to treat a bite:
http://www.ehow.com/how_2023907_treat-ce...-bite.html
The Wikipedia entry mentions that centipede bites can transmit filaria, but that claim has no citation.
At least, we don't have Scolopendra gigantea, the Amazon Giant Centipede, which can grow to over 12" and is known to catch flying bats(!) and rodents.
As Stan's original post alludes, chickens are supposed to be a predator. Peacocks might also go for them, but their loud calls make them a less than suitable solution.
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On U-tube, before I moved to the big island I saw a video of a centipede tracking and gobbling down a mouse! Eeek!
Since being here for once month, I have yet to see a live one, but pray everyday that I don't get to see one.
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Just put some pot around the peimeter, and they will mellow out, and go away.
you got some EXTRA stash that I can put around my house, and....(WHAM)...wifey just cracked me in the head!
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We have a large, elderly mixed breed female dog who loves to kill centipedes. She comes up behind them and snaps them in half before they can swing around and bite her. She somehow has managed to only get bitten once, and it hardly seemed to bother her. It certainly didn't stop her as she still chases them with great relish.
Cheers,
Jerry
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Jerry, many years back I had a 35 pound female "Pitbull" in Honolulu who just loved to attack & eat cockroaches at night! At the time where I lived was a school across the street. At night I'd take my dog for a walk, and right at the end I'd set her loose in the corridors of the school. At night cockroahes by the thousands would be all over. All you could hear was my dog's nails scretching in the corridors of the school as she'd slide out of control trying to get these nasty bugs. It was always good for an evening laugh.
As for the Centipedes Stan. After my wife had a Centipede on the inside of her pant leg on our second night in our new house I decided to take action. Orthos Home Defense"MAX" works the best in my opinion. Just spray it weekly around a perimeter of your home. Anything that crosses it will die....or so they(Ortho & my friend swears by it too) say? Plus the stuff is oderless too, big difference from the old "Blackflag" & "Raid" days, when the stuff alone almost kiiled you with it's smell
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Cap't Jack the Pirate Cat does pretty good with centipedes. I have no idea how he manages not to get stung, but he kills them as he finds them. The chickens and guinea fowl eat them as they find them and they also dig under leaves and things to find centipedes sleeping during the day.
When working in the yard, be sure to check under all flowerpots, rocks and things when lifting them up since frequently there will be centipedes under them.
If your house is on post and pier, you can make metal collars to go around the posts to keep centipedes from climbing up. Or you cold check to see how folks keep squirrels out of bird feeders on the mainland and make similar sorts of devices around your house posts. There also used to be some sticky stuff which was slathered on tree trunks to keep bugs from crawling up the trunks, that would probably work around posts, too.
Centipedes in the garage are harder to keep out, though, since garages generally aren't up on posts. You could try sprinkling boric acid under workbenches and things. That kills insects without harming people and pets.
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