Please Help Me!!!

[zachrocks]

I found a centipede in my kitchen stopper up drain plugger up thingy. I was limp and obviously dead. It was nearly as long as a toothpick. Please help me identify this thing and help me understand WHY it was on my kitchen counter.... I actually thought my husband had put it there as a joke to freak me out, called him, he said no. The pics are a little discoloured. It was a teal blueish green colour when I first found it. BTW, I live in Clarksville (Ft. Campbell) Tennessee, why would this thing be here and will this be a case of "since there's one, there's more" type thing? I have squashed (y'all probably don't want to hear that) several regular "house centipedes over the last couple days. I know they are responsible for killing ants, spiders, bed bugs, roaches etc. but I just don't like the idea of them crawling around while I'm sleeping... obviously I'm not one for creepy crawlies

 

[Entomancer]

Okay...

No offense, but if you're "not one for creepy crawlies" then why the hell did you join this forum?

 

[SandDeku]

I found a centipede in my kitchen stopper up drain plugger up thingy. I was limp and obviously dead. It was nearly as long as a toothpick. Please help me identify this thing and help me understand WHY it was on my kitchen counter.... I actually thought my husband had put it there as a joke to freak me out, called him, he said no. The pics are a little discoloured. It was a teal blueish green colour when I first found it. BTW, I live in Clarksville (Ft. Campbell) Tennessee, why would this thing be here and will this be a case of "since there's one, there's more" type thing? I have squashed (y'all probably don't want to hear that) several regular "house centipedes over the last couple days. I know they are responsible for killing ants, spiders, bed bugs, roaches etc. but I just don't like the idea of them crawling around while I'm sleeping... obviously I'm not one for creepy crawlies

Umm a) If there's one there's not going to be a ton of them around. They're not ants... Or colonizing species. I keep one myself as a live specimen(still alive). They went in your drain because it's obviously moist. While centipedes love moist areas.

If its a true house centipede and not a silverfish--- then either way you shouldn't have a problem. House centipedes really can't harm you. Their mandibles are too small to penetrate or anything.

So no worries. Agreed with the first non-OP poster. Why join? this isn't a pest control forum. No offense meant.

 

[zachrocks]

No offense, but if you're "not one for creepy crawlies" then why the hell did you join this forum?

To find out what this is, why its here and if there's probably more. Who better ask than y'all here who know so much more than I could ever imagine.

---------- Post added at 02:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:59 PM ----------

I've actually become more and more intrigued with these little boogers. Doing all this research and finding out what I have has brought me to actually like them. My curiosity has been peaked.

On a side note, I found another one, much larger (about 5") and still alive in the basement, where as SandDeku pointed out, is moist and cave-like. I'm gonna let him hang out down there and keep the crawley things I'm phobic of away.

I didn't mean any disrespect in saying I had harmed the house centipedes, there are so many of them coming out at night, literally 20-25 a night I'm seeing. The one I found on the counter, was already dead, I didn't kill him and I'm sorry if I led anyone to think I did.

 

[khil]

1. take pictures and let us ID them
2. post them on this thread
3. send me all the centipedes in your house, i'll pay shipping
?

 

[Bugs In Cyberspace]

You asked earlier why the bugger would be there, on your kitchen counter. Were you asking why you found a native species in its native habitat, or were you asking why your house was built there, effectively displacing it from its home?

A clean counter makes for a clean mind. A clean mind is more open to contemplation.

 

[llamastick]

For every predator you see, there are hundreds of prey you don't see!