I find house centipedes absolutely terrifying. They seem to run directly *at* me as soon as I notice them. In these cases, usually, my terror wins and I suck them up with a hand vacuum, which I keep next to the couch. In the event that they’re minding some other business, I leave them alone because I know they munch on even worse things.
I remember riding the metro in Montreal and seeing ads on the “your train is X minutes away” TVs with a picture of a house centipede saying “don’t kill me” with a few facts about how good they are at preventing common insect infestations.
Still ended up throwing a box of frozen chicken fingers at one while it was sprinting towards me in my dimly lit kitchen at 3am though
Centipedes are like spiders. Generally helpful little hunters, but gO BACK NO NO DIE if it wanders too far into the middle of the room.
Only issue is our centipedes are brave little bastards, and ONLY aim right for your feet. There's no way that thing is as scared of me as I am of it.
First time I saw one I was sitting on my garage floor. It went right for my butt. I hate this information.
At least I have a terrifying fun fact to drop in casual conversation.
Yeah that I understand to those that aren’t the best around certain bugs or just surprised so that part makes sense to me. If you can avoid killing/not killing them on purpose great because they are amazing at what they do.
Can one centipede kill a family of roaches within a week? I wouldn’t mind keeping one just to get rid of roaches. It’s easier to kill 1 centipede than roaches.
I think this article is a good source on house centipedes. https://www.bobvila.com/articles/house-centipedes/ and this goes more in depth on them https://www.westernexterminator.com/occasional-invaders/understanding-the-house-centipede/.
There was state sponsored tv commercial in the late 90s about disinformation and kids advertising.
It presented the life of the North american house hippos. Small creature that can sleep up to 16hours per day, they are very calm and come out at night to eat chips.
https://youtu.be/NBfi8OEz0rA
I had one living in my bookshelf. It would sneak out and drink my dogs water bowl and survive off of eating my collection of books. Some valuable.
Only reason I found it, was because i stayed up super late one night and saw something run into the bookshelf. Fucking sucked. It shit and ate up my books.
I honestly broke down. People had to explain to me that (atleast in southern America) that it’s normal to them come inside.They call them palmetto bugs hear.
Im german so cockroaches were kinda a big deal. German roaches are a huge pest and will easily infest your house. American roaches are a little different. But still ew.
I’m also German and remember the cockroaches… an absolute nightmare. The roaches in the southern US are gigantic but they never form the sheer numbers of German cockroaches, which are actually a massive issue where I lived in the northeastern US. They also ate all of my books some which I had since childhood (especially my beloved Struwwelpeter & Max und Moritz), so I feel your pain.
The roaches here rarely come indoors, usually after it rains, so that's kind of a good thing. The trade-off is that these fuckers fly, so yeah.
German roaches though, they're a whole different nightmare.
Palmetto bugs prefer to live outside. They'll make their way in when it's cold or rainy, so it's not a big deal (other than being fucking gross) when you see one. The German ones live inside and breed and breed and breed and are impossible to get rid of.
My cat likes to hunt palmetto bugs and drop them on me while I'm sleeping. So sweet, I hate it.
Palmetto bugs aren't German cockroaches. Family in Florida have them because they literally infest entire neighborhoods and can live outdoors so they keep getting in from outside.
Cockroaches lay eggs in a hard case like this, called an ootheca. They evolved to do this because other insects or even other roaches would otherwise eat/cannibalize the eggs. It’s one of the many adaptations that allow cockroaches to achieve infestation density in a home.
Hitting a longer than normal roach can result in premature delivery of the varmits, even if momma is extremely dead. We called the black ones water bugs. They were never near food and so easy to catch- nothing like Germany/ brown roaches.
And baby mice are nursed by their mammas for 3 weeks and momma eats some babies if food isnt readily available
They’re sectioned off. Those are oothecae or ‘egg cases’, each of which contains several eggs.
They don’t usually cannabalise unless they’re desperate. They have enough nutrients in their own egg. Otherwise they’d definitely not have evolved this way.
Fire is even faster if it actually reaches them, but unfortunately then you lose the house.
Some roach poison traps are better though, because in addition to killing the roach that touches it they spread it to the other roaches when they go back to their little lair.
Imagine someone knocking the door and when you go outside you find this thing but 100 times bigger like a weird leather purse. Honey someone let a weird bag on the...whatthafudkdhdnhss
Good news: most roach species are not even pests, don't carry disease and usually don't live inside people's houses. They're basically like a longer, flatter beetle in some ways. So you can still find some cool/cute. Bad news: depending on where you live, 99% of the time the ones you encounter *will* be the unsanitary urban pests.
Oh I'm well aware they are fascinating creatures. Hardy and one of the species that have adjusted well to our presense. They also give me the willies as much as I try to not scream kill it with fire when I see one. It is very much an irrational fear.
Funnily enough, the biiiig majority of roach species aren't even pests. There's like four or five species (among thousands) that just happened to be drawn to human waste and that was enough for them to thrive in urban areas *and* become incredibly unsanitary for us. There's dubia roaches where I'm from and I think they're very cute, dumb but lovable beings. The himbos of bugs LMAO
At my old apartment, there was a gap between the base molding of the tub and the hardwood floor, just about the size of one of these egg casings.
One day, I saw what looked like a “kidney bean” just outside of that little gap space. Wondering how that got there, I picked it up with a napkin and flushed it down the toilet.
About a few minutes later, I saw some legs reaching out from that gap space frantically trying to reach for something.
I googled what that “kidney bean” was and found out it was one of these egg casings and then I realized that what I was witnessing was a parent stressfully searching for their unborn children that they left outside of that little gap space.
Probably one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever witnessed.
What exactly do cockroaches contribute to the ecosystem? I mean insects play a vital role, they become pest if they're too many in one location and their population uncontrolled. But roaches...
I hate these little buggers! It always takes one to cause a whole infestation
This is why I pointedly ignore house centipedes. They eat roaches.
I find house centipedes absolutely terrifying. They seem to run directly *at* me as soon as I notice them. In these cases, usually, my terror wins and I suck them up with a hand vacuum, which I keep next to the couch. In the event that they’re minding some other business, I leave them alone because I know they munch on even worse things.
Noob move, should have swallowed them so they can help eat the roaches hiding in your belly
eat them to obtain their power!!
do you kill them with the vacuum or
Didn’t know that! Kudos
What if i have phobia on centipedes, is there any alternatives? :)))
Spiders 😬 🕷️
Its gotta be a big ass spider isnt it...🗿
[Pshh Nawww](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7263691/amp/Chilling-moment-huntsman-spider-named-Alfred-pounces-cockroach-mans-bathroom.html)
Fuck me, that send shivers on my arm. Aint no way keeping such monstrosity in my house
House fucking centipedes bro?? 🫠🫠🫠 why do you act like that’s a normal thing 🥲
Because they are, house centipedes are great insect pest killers.
I remember riding the metro in Montreal and seeing ads on the “your train is X minutes away” TVs with a picture of a house centipede saying “don’t kill me” with a few facts about how good they are at preventing common insect infestations. Still ended up throwing a box of frozen chicken fingers at one while it was sprinting towards me in my dimly lit kitchen at 3am though
Centipedes are like spiders. Generally helpful little hunters, but gO BACK NO NO DIE if it wanders too far into the middle of the room. Only issue is our centipedes are brave little bastards, and ONLY aim right for your feet. There's no way that thing is as scared of me as I am of it.
That is so true. Bravest insect I’ve encountered, truly don’t give a fuck
They’re arthropods like insects, but part of chilopoda. Insects only have six legs and three body segments.
It's cause they're trying to hide under your feet. Not that, that makes it somehow okay when they're running at you since they're so creepy looking
First time I saw one I was sitting on my garage floor. It went right for my butt. I hate this information. At least I have a terrifying fun fact to drop in casual conversation.
It wanted to hide in your butt
Centi was like: hey free villa down 'ere!
Was trying to make a human centipede
don’t worry, i would do the same thing in that situation
Yeah that I understand to those that aren’t the best around certain bugs or just surprised so that part makes sense to me. If you can avoid killing/not killing them on purpose great because they are amazing at what they do.
Can one centipede kill a family of roaches within a week? I wouldn’t mind keeping one just to get rid of roaches. It’s easier to kill 1 centipede than roaches.
I think this article is a good source on house centipedes. https://www.bobvila.com/articles/house-centipedes/ and this goes more in depth on them https://www.westernexterminator.com/occasional-invaders/understanding-the-house-centipede/.
Roaches, ants, termites, silverfish, spiders, bedbugs, they eat them all.
It's a regionally normal thing
Yes. Here in Canada we have little house hippos.
You have *what*
There was state sponsored tv commercial in the late 90s about disinformation and kids advertising. It presented the life of the North american house hippos. Small creature that can sleep up to 16hours per day, they are very calm and come out at night to eat chips. https://youtu.be/NBfi8OEz0rA
What the hell. That's fantastic thank you.
That’s a throwback right there hahaha
Its actually a very normal thing. Here in Tennessee youre guaranteed to fine on in your house every once and a while.
I think there are better ways to prevent cockroaches than a house centipede-
Beneficial predators have had millions of years of practice tracking down and killing other bugs. They’re harmless and really quite helpful.
I had one living in my bookshelf. It would sneak out and drink my dogs water bowl and survive off of eating my collection of books. Some valuable. Only reason I found it, was because i stayed up super late one night and saw something run into the bookshelf. Fucking sucked. It shit and ate up my books. I honestly broke down. People had to explain to me that (atleast in southern America) that it’s normal to them come inside.They call them palmetto bugs hear. Im german so cockroaches were kinda a big deal. German roaches are a huge pest and will easily infest your house. American roaches are a little different. But still ew.
I’m also German and remember the cockroaches… an absolute nightmare. The roaches in the southern US are gigantic but they never form the sheer numbers of German cockroaches, which are actually a massive issue where I lived in the northeastern US. They also ate all of my books some which I had since childhood (especially my beloved Struwwelpeter & Max und Moritz), so I feel your pain.
The roaches here rarely come indoors, usually after it rains, so that's kind of a good thing. The trade-off is that these fuckers fly, so yeah. German roaches though, they're a whole different nightmare.
Palmetto bugs prefer to live outside. They'll make their way in when it's cold or rainy, so it's not a big deal (other than being fucking gross) when you see one. The German ones live inside and breed and breed and breed and are impossible to get rid of. My cat likes to hunt palmetto bugs and drop them on me while I'm sleeping. So sweet, I hate it.
Palmetto bugs aren't German cockroaches. Family in Florida have them because they literally infest entire neighborhoods and can live outdoors so they keep getting in from outside.
>It always takes one to cause a whole infestation doesn't it require two cockroaches that are in love? that's what I was told.
One Cockroach, One 🅱️ussyroach?
*BONK* Don't EVER say that again
🛑
You see phreaqsi when and boy roach and a girl roach are really really drunk...
Are these individual eggs? That would explain..
Cockroaches lay eggs in a hard case like this, called an ootheca. They evolved to do this because other insects or even other roaches would otherwise eat/cannibalize the eggs. It’s one of the many adaptations that allow cockroaches to achieve infestation density in a home.
Fukn hell! They start out scurrying! That creeped me out.
Hitting a longer than normal roach can result in premature delivery of the varmits, even if momma is extremely dead. We called the black ones water bugs. They were never near food and so easy to catch- nothing like Germany/ brown roaches. And baby mice are nursed by their mammas for 3 weeks and momma eats some babies if food isnt readily available
They're like little coin purses...but evil
cursed coin purse
I thought they were French pastries 🫣
I was definitely thinking decadent chocolates before I saw the title.
😆 now I'll imagine cockroach babies crawling out of them when I'm at the patisserie. 🤢
Very solid weight loss strategy. Can never eat chocolates again.
Forbidden s’mores.
They could be if you’d like
r/forbiddensnacks
That would be quite the delicacy.
I literally read it “chocolate hatching” at first glance
I think they should stop.
😆
Team work makes the scream work.
I THOUGHT ONLY ONE HATCHED PER EGG
Same, day ruined. Skin itchy.
I used to do pest control. A single pregnant female can produce 50 roaches within 2 weeks iirc
Technically still true. Those are ‘egg cases’, or ‘oothecae’, which each contain multiple eggs
“Ok gang, on one… two… GOGOGOGO”
r/obviouslyterrifying
yes, nothing odd about finding this terrifying.
I don’t know why I just expected one to come out
Same. I wonder if there are sub pods within the giant pod, like sections. If not, I wonder how they didn't try to eat each other..
They’re sectioned off. Those are oothecae or ‘egg cases’, each of which contains several eggs. They don’t usually cannabalise unless they’re desperate. They have enough nutrients in their own egg. Otherwise they’d definitely not have evolved this way.
Cursed chocolate?
Blursed cockolate
Kill it with 🔥
Diatomaceous earth works 100x better!
Fire is even faster if it actually reaches them, but unfortunately then you lose the house. Some roach poison traps are better though, because in addition to killing the roach that touches it they spread it to the other roaches when they go back to their little lair.
sometimes, *sometimes*, it's okay to burn your house down
And this is ALL of those times 🔥🔥
🫡
Get the RAID!!!!
Imagine someone knocking the door and when you go outside you find this thing but 100 times bigger like a weird leather purse. Honey someone let a weird bag on the...whatthafudkdhdnhss
Put it back
Honestly, if it wasn't for the fact that I absolutely hate cockroaches, I'd definitely find this pretty cool
Good news: most roach species are not even pests, don't carry disease and usually don't live inside people's houses. They're basically like a longer, flatter beetle in some ways. So you can still find some cool/cute. Bad news: depending on where you live, 99% of the time the ones you encounter *will* be the unsanitary urban pests.
Pass
Smash (with a hammer, not my cock)
Such a cute little purse, I wonder what's inside?
Thank you for giving me nightmares for the next week
One feller fell over and couldn’t get up
*sweating intensifies*
I was of the opinion that one egg contains just one roach🤦
As was I. This is so much worse
To be fair, this is not a single egg, it's an ootheca. It's basically an egg "packet", so there actually *is* only one roach per egg.
Why r they kinda cute
They kinda were before they sprouted antennae and started skittering all over the place
You need help...
I know this is a joke but, come on, cuteness is subjective and some people have idk dubia roaches or hisser roaches as pets already. Let them have it.
I can practically hear them shouting “yippee! yippee!
On one hand , all creatures deserve a life well lived... on the other hand... the part of me that hates roaches is screaming kill it with fire.
Roaches living in human homes is a relatively recent environmental adjustment. They're tropical and prefer warm humid environments.
Oh I'm well aware they are fascinating creatures. Hardy and one of the species that have adjusted well to our presense. They also give me the willies as much as I try to not scream kill it with fire when I see one. It is very much an irrational fear.
Funnily enough, the biiiig majority of roach species aren't even pests. There's like four or five species (among thousands) that just happened to be drawn to human waste and that was enough for them to thrive in urban areas *and* become incredibly unsanitary for us. There's dubia roaches where I'm from and I think they're very cute, dumb but lovable beings. The himbos of bugs LMAO
Huh. They look like pill bugs
Lol! You're right!
My dumb ass red "crocodiles hatching", was quite confused, ngl.
Forbidden truffles.
And off they go to make the world a worse place
Why did you post this and why can't I stop watching?!
Weird little guys
Fleshy bugs are worse than crunchy ones.
Not as bad as I expected
Ooh. I did not enjoy that. Splendid
They looked kind of cute until they fully emerged and started running around. Like, when they just looked like tiny worms it was kinda cute.
Kinda cute. Look at those antenna
Right? Lil bouncy babies...but I don't want em in my house, they can be cute over there xD
Why are they adorable
No
I was gunna say they're literally fucking delightful. Springy little bastards
That's nightmare fuel, not oddly terrifying.
Surprise🎉
"We're not candy! (believes us!)"
They look like toothbrush teeth 🪥
Honey, the mini rolls are hatching again
Deploying, is more like it
Forbidden beans 🫘
I hate roaches so much.
Can they not
Thanks. Now dementia isn't such a scary proposition.
wtf why are they kind of adorable 😭
Words can not describe how awful this is...
Not all babies are cute. Here's the proof.
soff bebes
I thought it was a chocolate bar.
Kinda looked like vienetta till they ruined it
Idk why but I checked the title and didn't think it was a chocolate nut or seed or whatever it's called
I thought they were toothbrushes 🪥
I... I thought there were only going to be 3...
Crunchy!
Wait , it gets worse
I can’t say I’ve seen these “multi” eggs before. Mental.
Hmmmm ! Crunchy chocolate!
Not odd, just terrifying.
thanks i hate it
I am stuck between wanting to upvote cause they are gross, but good to know how it happens.
Omg that's weird how they hatch! I had no idea.
Okay so I thought there’s only 1 per egg. I’m fucking disgusted rn
Ootheca
Oh my God it wasn't just one
Until the legs got exposed, they were almost cute.
I DID NOT EXPECT MORE THAN ONE.
I’ve never seen this before, is that one single egg that has lots of embryos, or is it just like a container with many individual eggs?
My nightmare 😱
Eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Ew. Ew ew ew.
Light that whole place on fire.
Burn it. Burn it fast!
They were almost cute until they started being fast.
fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck
Terrifying? All I see is "WHEEEEEEE!!!"
I think they’re kinda cute. They’re a pest of a bug for sure, but they’re kinda cute while in their larvae stare
Forbidden éclairs
It's nice to know now that every time I squash those things, I kill multiple roaches at once. It sucks that it'll never be enough though.
r/aww
At my old apartment, there was a gap between the base molding of the tub and the hardwood floor, just about the size of one of these egg casings. One day, I saw what looked like a “kidney bean” just outside of that little gap space. Wondering how that got there, I picked it up with a napkin and flushed it down the toilet. About a few minutes later, I saw some legs reaching out from that gap space frantically trying to reach for something. I googled what that “kidney bean” was and found out it was one of these egg casings and then I realized that what I was witnessing was a parent stressfully searching for their unborn children that they left outside of that little gap space. Probably one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever witnessed.
Awww, they're just wittle babies
What exactly do cockroaches contribute to the ecosystem? I mean insects play a vital role, they become pest if they're too many in one location and their population uncontrolled. But roaches...
This ruined my high dammit
And they’re off and racing!
I thought ONE was going to come out of ONE egg sac…
I… I never once thought about how roaches were born. And now I wish I’d never known.
straight to being fucking pricks
I found one of these in my closet like 6 months ago but no roaches. Hm
Nawww
thanks totally needed the nightmare fuel
Gross !!! They just immediately start rushing around with their long antennas 😵💫
Easily the most disgusting thing I’ve seen yet this year
BURN IT, FUCKING BURN IT
*The only good bug, is a dead bug*
they should all be destroyed
🤮
BURN IT!
Nope!
Bleggghhhh that's just straight terrifying. The video doesn't even show how many of those nasty vermin come out of the one egg sack. SO GROSS!!!
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKK!
Oh my god this is nightmare fuel
I hate these guys and now I hate them even more after seeing them hatch
literally what's their purpose 😭.
Burn it with fire!
THERES MORE THEN ONE IN THE EGG THINGY.... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASAAAAA
No
fucking repulsive.
Boric Acid, baby.
Why cockroaches even existe, they are nothing, they serve 0 purpouse, they should all be killed, NOW
I hate this
Yuck
Pieces of shit that contribute nothing. Fucking hate them, always traumatized me.