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Centipede Bite
Nambkab
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So I wake up an hour ago to an intense pain in my neck, grab it in my half asleep phase, rip it out of my skin (literally it was digging in) and throw it on the floor as I scramble for lighting. I finally find it and realize I've been stung by a centipede. I have literally no experience whatsoever with these things, and am pretty well unsure how to treat it other than some anecdotal information I pulled off the internet. Anyone here have any experience with these types of bites? It is quite painful so far.
As well, should I be concerned with finding more of the damned things...I now have an intense aversion to laying back down in my bed. (the one that stung me is dead, it was quite large for a centipede in this area, about 3-3.5inches long maybe more(South Georgia is the area))
As well, should I be concerned with finding more of the damned things...I now have an intense aversion to laying back down in my bed. (the one that stung me is dead, it was quite large for a centipede in this area, about 3-3.5inches long maybe more(South Georgia is the area))
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Also, a Google for "South Georgia centipede" returns this thread as the second result.
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They're poisonous, but not enough to really do much harm. I'd still recommend going to the Dr, though. You never know. Maybe save the bug too just in case.
http://pubs.caes.uga.edu/caespubs/pubcd/B1088/B1088.htm
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/2437/centipedehandling.html A little article about handling them, with information on poison.
The flip side to this is that I learned in my reading on centipedes this morning that there is a decent chance more will show up, so now I have no real desire to sleep in my bed again. Guess it's time to pesticide woo.
Thanks for the help, case is solved.
Dude! It was eating his neck!
"Silverfish eat a wide variety of foods, including glue, wallpaper paste, bookbindings, paper, photographs, starch in clothing, cotton, linen, rayon fabrics, wheat flour, cereals, dried meats, leather and even dead insects."
They also eat dust, which is primarily composed of dead skin cells.
I sympathize with that, I used to hate dissecting some of the larger myriapods like members of the Scolopendra genus, some of those are large enough to catch bats
Edit: Just be grateful we don't have to share the earth with this anymore.
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I'm guessing you don't have a cat that could kill the centipedes instead, but if you do, don't bother with borax and let your cat wander around til they're all gone. They're master centipede mercenaries.
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
my cats are awful bug hunters. Roaches, centipedes, flies, you name it - the cats will watch them and occasionally give them a playful bat until they run into a crack or up the wall.
edit: I do second the boric acid though. I sprinkled that crap all the hell over the kitchen after our last microwave wound up with several roaches living in the digital display... hardly see any of the little beasts anymore.
Big lazy cats probably wouldn't help, and it's not worth taking your chances on a random mutt cat just for your centipede problem. My wife and I, pre-cat, would bug bomb. We'd get those blue-canister RAID fumigator things and set them up one per room. They definitely work, but not always instantaneously -- we'd typically see an uptick in centipedes and other bugs coming out into the open for about 1-2 days afterwards.
The advantages to a bug bomb over other forms is that it will kill babies too, as well as anything else along the bug-sized food chain. I have little sympathy for insects, and bug bombs worked for my house for about 6 months (usually doing one in the spring and another once it starts to cool off in the fall).
http://blog.lib.umn.edu/whit1019/centipedes/House_centipede.jpg
Was having trouble linking, sorry.
Those are freaky, the way they scramble all around and everything. I generally don't like using insecticides, or even killing spiders or what have you that I find, but I'd make an exception to these centipedes.
My cat still goes after them, although I've only found a couple that he's killed.
My parents just never cared to do anything about them. Eventually we shuffled our rooms around, and I got stuck with the room that has the attic door. The first summer after I moved into this room, I'd get 4 or 5 full grown a night.
I still get them pretty often in the summer. My parents won't allow me to use pesticides or anything against them.
Woke up to a roach (I shudder as I type that) climbing on my leg. I flipped out, threw the covers off of me and jumped on the couch and sat in a ball, covers tucked under me to keep them from getting in.
I was like 13 then, but damnit I'm almost 23 now and I'd do the exact same thing all over again.
Oh then another time I was chasing one I saw before I went to bed, then lost track of it under the bed.
I didn't sleep that night.
Thank goodness I live on the third floor now. I just get these weird carpet beetles sometimes. Which is fine. beetles are cool. But living in florida sucks ass for bugs. You could have the most immaculate house and you will get roaches and other critters.
AAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!!! That mother fucking thing lived in Scotland?!? I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.
Ooga booga
Ever since I found out that these things were edible I've wanted to taste one.
They taste like fear.
I heard they taste more like crab. :P
OR FEAR
One word: botfly.
and I'm not going to even think about looking up what a botfly is because it'll probably give me nightmares. I know after I woke up with a wasp in my bed with me I couldn't sleep in my bed for days, so seeing something that is, at a guess, the scourge of tropical areas, I'll probably end up dead from fright.
Haha those things don't exist.
They're giant aquatic roly polys. Hardly terrifying.