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The House Centipede is Fast, Furious, and Just So Extra

The House Centipede is Fast, Furious, and Just So Extra

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Please follow us on Patreon! Take the 2023 PBS Survey: CORRECTION, 9/26/2018: This episode of Deep Look contains an error in the scientific name of the house centipede. It is Scutigera coleoptrata, not coleoptera. We regret the error. The viewers who caught the mistake will receive a free Deep Look T-shirt, and our gratitude. Thanks for keeping tabs on us! Voracious, venomous and hella leggy, house centipedes are masterful predators with a knack for fancy footwork. But not all their legs are made for walking, they put some to work in other surprising ways
Date: 2023-11-16

Comments and reviews: 30


: ( I'm trying to learn to love these guys - well, I _love_ all life, but I also just _hate_ sharing space with these little freaks. But I want to do better! I largely have learned many bugs will see themselves out, and I love a good web in a corner, as spiders are helpful ridders of peskier types like flies. I live among moths and beetles fine and I'm good at catching and releasing if someone's not finding their way well. But these guys? Vacuum cleaner. But I feel haunted by their wee ghosts! I once woke up to one _on me_ while in bed and I never recovered. They're skittish yet also bold If it was certain they'd vanish and never end up on my person I think I'd have an easier time.
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I have been bitten by a house centipede. and while EVERY person in someway are different, I can describe it as 1. painful. in between a dirt dauber sting and a paper wasp 2. the pain went away (for me) withn 3-5 min. 3. a little bump that was red and itchy 4. no lingering affects. That is not to say I wanted it to happen. and ANY INSECT BITE CAN cause medical problems. I just didn't know better. I was about 8 yrs old at the time.
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Ok but I guess they dont like warm weather that much? Here in asia we dont have them sadly but we do have all the pests imaginable. Bed bugs, cockroaches, spiders (exclude jumping & web making spiders, rats, termites, actual centipedes etc etc. One more thing, probably shouldnt call it CENTIPEDE because it kinda make it scary. Just call it pest control.
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The way I see it is free exterminator. My basement always had a lot of bugs but the centipedes keep them at bay. The centipedes never come upstairs either and I honestly don't ever see them in the basement unless you turn the light on at night. No roaches, no huge spider infestations, just one or two creepy quick bois
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Nothing on this green world with a soul should have been made so grotesque. The way it eludes the recognition of the human eye. Truly an eldritch creature from another realm. I dont care how many pests it kills, the centipede will die under my boot if I see one. Our holy war will go on for millennia.
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I've got one sitting right next to me in a glass which i used to catch it.
Fella is gonna hang with me for a while before being released back into the vicinity of my home. hopefully finding shelter elsewhere.
I weirdly adore these critters although they make my skin crawl at the same time.

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I watched the whole video to see the results of the centipede and the hundred cockroaches. And then you didn't tell us what happened in the aftermath of the centipede and the hundred cockroaches. You surmised the centipede would avoid them. But you didn't show it. Thanks for nothing
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Only critter Im always happy to see in my home, then I know there wont be other species, whether insects or spiders, and they dont bother you at all as they hunt in the dark, and are quite shy.
So dont kill them folks, they are there to help you out

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What's funny is that i can handle spiders, scorpions, praying mantises, and even giant hornets, but this thing, its too much for me. The way it looks just triggers something in to my brain, and the fact it can move so fast makes it even worse.
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I've always been amazed by these things' ability to just dematerialize when you're looking for one that scurried off somewhere. Especially considering just how big they can get, doesn't matter what size it is, it still just vanishes into thin air.
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Another terrifying thing about them: everytime l enter a room and this guy is on the wall, when l turn the lights on, they throw themselves on the floor to escape. And they're extremely fast. They're my worst fear.
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I hate how they insinuate that if you feel a phantom tickle it might have been one of those guys. I had one on the wall right above my bed today and am now looking forward to weeks and weeks of uneasy sleep
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Had I known these things thrive in brick, I wouldn't have moved into a brick building in 1978. I would be taking a bath and they'd come out of the faucet into my bath water. Never ever had I moved so fast
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some other guy telling that this insect don't have a venomous in human, but if we let hear the explanation on this content she almost told us as a many times of this house centipede have a venom
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Not, When you feel it crawling on your neck in your bed at 145am & it bites me on my neck! And goes around my pillow & it's heading toward my grand baby! Heck no! I killed it! Just b4 this post!
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I am terrified of these and as I got to the point where I could actually look at them, I wanted to try videos. Im hoping if I watch this video a hundred times, it will help you as much as me.
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I don't have a problem with them chilling in a corner somewhere. I don't even care if they're in my room. But c'mon, do you really gotta climb on my ceiling as I'm about to sleep?
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Aww i killed one yesterday. I thought it was a roach at first and i hate roaches flies and bugs in general. So when I saw it running i smashed it with my flio flop.
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I used to be very afraid of spiders. until I found one of these very bugs in my home, now I welcome spiders with open arms as they seem like nothing compared to a HC
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Ok, by the end of this video I am genuinely impressed with the terrifying biology of the house centipede. It has my respect as a speed and mayhem build
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I think centipedes were the inspiration for the creature in the old horror movie The Tingler starring Vincent Price. Ill say this - it has a cute face.
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I'm happy they are brutal in hunting other pests like flies and crickets and are dociel to humans but whyyyyyy does it have to look like so creeepy
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rarely bites ppl.
99. 99% doesn't bite
so tht 0. 01% chance tht they might bite u. okk im leaving the house if i see thm.

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There's nothing more horrifying than waking up in the middle of the night and seeing one on the wall your bed is resting against
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fun fact: these eat roaches so if you see them in your house there's a possibility that theres some roaches around hiding.
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that is absolutely incredibly and I can't really convey how much I don't want to be within a 10 mile radius of these things
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I've seen these in my house, they are pretty cool. I let the spiders and other predators inside my house do their thing.
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These mfs are so disgusting and scarily fast. I'd take a spider over them anyday, at least spiders don't run around
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Another wonderful] God creation. We all need to look at these as another way of pest control. Clear and simple.
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I have an understanding with the ones I have in my basement. Stay out of my view and we'll get along just fine.
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