Yeep!

[persephone_kore]

I knew there was a centipede in here, but I had lost track of it. I tried not to worry about this, having read that -- much like most spiders -- this type of centipede was not terribly dangerous and was beneficial in that it ate various other insects that might wander in.

But really, having an inch-long bug ripple along the wall next to the ceiling is unsettling.

...Watching it walk out over the ceiling, toward the part over my head, occasionally twitching as if it nearly lost its grip, is perhaps worse.

As it's rather decidedly out of reach, I'm just going to try to pretend that this is why we haven't had any trouble with ants this summer. Really.

Edit: It fell off the ceiling. What kind of stupid bug falls off the ceiling?! At least it didn't land on me.

Comments

[deralte.livejournal.com]

*L* They're pretty much everywhere here. Good luck;)

[murasaki99.livejournal.com]

Gack! A 5-inch centipede makes the local 1-inch millipedes look puny. I don't think our 'pedes are prone to bite, either. What about Honshu up north? Cold weather...

Of course here we've got earwigs, some of whom are bold explorers. Found one clinging to my bath-soap once. :0

[deralte.livejournal.com]

Uh, there might be less up in Hokkaido and northern Honshu. I'm not really sure. There's cockroaches everywhere though. And some of them fly... At least none of the spiders are poisonous here.

Where I grew up in NJ, it was mostly ants, though I remember sitting on an earwig once.