Cool little documentary about the house centipede: Not everyone has seen these little darlings, and here is your chance to see what some of us will sometimes have waiting for us in our...

Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI

Not everyone has seen these little darlings, and here is your chance to see what some of us will sometimes have waiting for us in our bathtub or bedroom.
I need to get back to photographing them once the weather warms up. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2RtbP1d7Kg

EnglishBrenda Loc: Kent, England

Thanks for that, I learned a lot from it.

PRETENDER Loc: Micanopy,Florida

Love it.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Oh Mark, you are spot-on with finding them in your home. I found this one crawling across the ceiling of my bedroom while enjoying a morning cup of coffee and the news a few months ago as cold weather was staring to set in. They are truly amazing creatures.

House Centipede 11-23-18 by Herman Munster, on Flickr

Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI

I wish to relate a story from a year or so ago when I was trying to catch one for photographs. I had gone upstairs, and the wife was up there with the bedroom door closed, sound asleep. I spotted a large house centipede in the hallway, so I gathered a jar and a piece of paper to catch it. What followed was a bit of a comedy of errors that led to the centipede running under the bedroom door of all places. Several doors to go under and it chose that one. So I got my led head light and went in, quietly, on hands and knees. I spotted the critter under the long dresser, but again it scurried away from me and of course it decided to ran under the bed where the wife was peacefully snoring.
Mistakes were made, as they say. I just had to leave it there and retreat in defeat.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Love the story. It's one that only fellows with like-minds can relate to.

newtoyou Loc: Eastport

Mark Sturtevant wrote:

Not everyone has seen these little darlings, and here is your chance to see what some of us will sometimes have waiting for us in our bathtub or bedroom.
I need to get back to photographing them once the weather warms up. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2RtbP1d7Kg

They also form large colonies on the rip- rap of rocks on the water and scavenge and prey on other arthropods. About the hardest creature to mount realistically, legs fall off easily, VERY easily.
Bill

Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI

I am very seriously entertaining the idea of trying to hold several of them in captivity, in separate containors of course, and in such a way that any pregnant females among them would eventually settle in and produce a batch of eggs.
This so that I can then take pictures of a mama 'pede cuddling her eggs and later her newly hatched young. Never been done before to my knowledge.

napabob Loc: Napa CA

Mark Sturtevant wrote:

I am very seriously entertaining the idea of trying to hold several of them in captivity, in separate containors of course, and in such a way that any pregnant females among them would eventually settle in and produce a batch of eggs.
This so that I can then take pictures of a mama 'pede cuddling her eggs and later her newly hatched young. Never been done before to my knowledge.

I for one, await your accomplishment in this regard.............gitterdone

enjoyed the video too

napabob Loc: Napa CA

Mark Sturtevant wrote:

I wish to relate a story from a year or so ago whe... (show quote)

been there done that..............Mrs: what are you looking for......? Me: oh nothing.............