what the heck kind of bug is this!!!!??????????????

[chong2]

this is way crazy, the other night i was thinking of all the wierd stuff i have seen when smaller. and i thought of this bug i saw in ruidoso nm in a basement when i was about 10 years old. and today i was walking in my kitchen i see the exact same species walking on the floor, creeping the doody outta me. it looks like a millipede/centipede/caterpillar/spiderish. what is it and are they bad, should i dispose of it properly

 

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[SC_hunter]

I got no idea what it is but in the last pic...it look like he is mighty PO'd..lol

 

[Montana Jim]

House Centipede

House Centipedes
Centipedes are common arthropods with long, flattened, segmented bodies with one pair of legs per segment. The house centipede is up to 1 1/2 inches long and has 15 pairs of very long, slender legs. Each leg is encircled by dark and white bands. The body is brown to grayish-yellow and has three dark stripes on top.
Though house centipedes are found both indoors and outdoors it is the occasional one on the bathroom or bedroom wall, or the one accidentally trapped in the bathtub, sink, or lavatory that causes the most concern. However, these locations are not where they normally originate. Centipedes prefer to live in damp portions of basements, closets, bathrooms, unexcavated areas under the house and beneath the bark of firewood stored indoors. They do not come up through the drain pipes.

House centipedes feed on small insects, insect larvae, and on spiders. Thus they are beneficial, though most homeowners take a different point-of-view and consider them a nuisance. Technically, the house centipede could bite, but it is considered harmless to people.

House centipede control consists of drying up and cleaning, as much as possible, the areas that serve as habitat and food source for centipedes. Residual insecticides can be applied to usual hiding places such as crawl spaces, dark corners in basements, baseboard cracks and crevices, openings in concrete slabs, and so forth. Residual insecticides available to homeowners are the "ant and roach killers" and the "home pest control sprays." Centipedes discovered outdoors should not be controlled.

http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/1991/6-19-1991/cent.html

 

[diggitdoggie]

Yep, a centipede..we called them thousand-leggers back in Pa. (an exaggeration but they LOOK like they have a lot more legs when they are running!)
Never had a problem with them but they just look creepy...too many legs.

DD

 

[chong2]

cool, well i thought it was some sort of centipede, and that explains whu i found one in a basement. well, he is outside now, unharmed, thanks jim for that response

 

[Cynangyl]

He may be beneficial but he is double butt ugly and I am certain I would not like him as a house guest!

 

[chong2]

true, p.s. dunno why he is in my house, cause my house isnt dirty

 

[eagle77]

The last pic is enuff for me....maybe it's an alien

 

[Monty]

eagle, I think it's trying to tell you something! M nty

 

[DC]

I think I saw one like that one on the SciFi channel today right after he ate 3 people!

 

[justine093]

that thing just gave me the creeps....
yuck.
but hey, if he's eating other bugs, that's great, but still....
yuck.
-justine

 

[trikikiwi]

Excellent photography of an amazing creature.
Cheers, Mike

 

[chong2]

thanks

 

[DR]

That thing might be common where you live, but I've been stomping the woods and waters of Florida all my life and I ain't never seen one of those!
Thanks for the bug lesson.
I darn sure learned a new one today.

 

[swizzle]

I've always been told that those are silver fish and they hang out in the same spots that cockroaches do. Swizzle

 

[diggummup]

That thing might be common where you live, but I've been stomping the woods and waters of Florida all my life and I ain't never seen one of those!
Thanks for the bug lesson.
I darn sure learned a new one today.

That's cause it's a house centipede! For the record,I ain't never saw one either!

I've always been told that those are silver fish and they hang out in the same spots that cockroaches do. Swizzle

Close but not quite-

 

[chong2]

thats a silver fish, we havem here too, not so fuzzy tho

 

[LadyDigger]

true, p.s. dunno why he is in my house, cause my house isnt dirty

Just cause your house isn't dirty, don't mean you won't get them critters in your home....just like roaches, people think only those who keep dirty houses get them...not true~!

We get in our house all the time, these huge gigantic roaches (some call them Palmeto Bugs, others call them Florida Coach Roaches and the Bug People call them American Coach Roaches. They also fly and make these annoying noises!!...we live in Va Beach.)

We live on a creek and they love dark moist places. We have also been remodeling, so they seem to enjoy that too! EWWWWWWWWWW....dislike them things so much! They will also come into your home, especially when alot of construction is being done, and both my neighbors on either side of us have had major construction done to their homes in the last two years...now it's our turn to return the favor LOL. They are primarily outdoor wood area critters, but like I said, if alot of construction is going on, you may see some wonder in on your space!

We get lots of silverfish, and these big fugly spider/cricket looking things (I think a cricket bred with a spider! LOL)

I usually find the silverfish in my old books (which I have since sealed in containers to protect the books, as they will destroy the books over time).

But I haven't run across an ugly silverfish like the one your got....that one would creep me out LOL

Also, do you find those pincher bugs too? If I find a silverfish ... I usually can expect those thin, black pincher bugs...ewwwwwwwww....I dislike bugs!!!!

However, I let the crickets stay in the house....Chinese Proverb about crickets in a home brings good luck

 

[bill gent]

ooooooppps just squished it sorry didnt mean to step on it didnt know it was ur pet

 

[Egor1]

A good site to identify insects is:

http://www.whatsthatbug.com