Well this is not really a meeting, the big one juste don't give a fuck and walk on the other 1000 times
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;52521604]This is why I have no issues with the silverfish in my apartment.
They're not slow by any means, but they're relatively easy to keep track. They don't bother me at all.
Spiders, though. Those fast darty fucks can bugger right off. I take my eyes off the one in the middle of the wood floor for less than a second, and that fucker's gone with no signs as to where it went. Fuck that.[/QUOTE]
Silverfish cause damage to your shit, you need to get rid of them when you can.
What a cute pair. I like the giant more, It's cool how it slows down so smoothly
[QUOTE=NoobSauce;52520659]I honestly find these little buggers cute. They are harmless sure, but goddamn during mating season they appear literally everywhere over here. They overran my house one time and could be found all over my driveway, backyard, bathroom, bedrooms, etc. My dad woke up one day them crawling on his head. :v:[/QUOTE][t]http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/2013-06-03.jpg[/t]
so this isn't completely exaggerated?
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;52521604]This is why I have no issues with the silverfish in my apartment.
They're not slow by any means, but they're relatively easy to keep track. They don't bother me at all.
Spiders, though. Those fast darty fucks can bugger right off. I take my eyes off the one in the middle of the wood floor for less than a second, and that fucker's gone with no signs as to where it went. Fuck that.[/QUOTE]
One of my friends has stated at one time when they were young they somehow ate a silverfish while eating cereal and somehow got sick (even though they don't even transmit disease, so it was very well likely just a reaction or really bad timing).
Ever since then, well, let's just say he isn't an avid fan of arthropods like me; I feel bad for both him and the silverfish that accidentally got eaten that day. :saddowns:
[QUOTE=Dr. Kyuros;52522071]One of my friends has stated at one time when they were young they somehow ate a silverfish while eating cereal and somehow got sick (even though they don't even transmit disease, so it was very well likely just a reaction or really bad timing).
Ever since then, well, let's just say he isn't an avid fan of arthropods like me; I feel bad for both him and the silverfish that accidentally got eaten that day. :saddowns:[/QUOTE]
I find silverfish cute, I don't want them around but I don't mind them, they're harmless shits. Everytime I look at them they stop moving, as if they were thinking "shit, please don't kill me I'm just on my way sir I'm fucking lost".
[QUOTE=Mehdow;52522188]I find silverfish cute, I don't want them around but I don't mind them, they're harmless shits. Everytime I look at them they stop moving, as if they were thinking "shit, please don't kill me I'm just on my way sir I'm fucking lost".[/QUOTE]
sliverfish causes a lot of minor damages around your house, I wouldn't call them harmless.
[QUOTE=jason3232;52522490]sliverfish causes a lot of minor damages around your house, I wouldn't call them harmless.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, like you and gbtygfvyg have already said: they're attracted to stuff with carbohydrates in them (i.e: paper, starch, sugar, etc) to the point they aren't above causing slight property damage.
Infestations are what you should really be looking out for though if it ever gets to that point, not so much lone instances.
[QUOTE=Dr. Kyuros;52522535]Yeah, like you and gbtygfvyg have already said: they're attracted to stuff with carbohydrates in them (i.e: paper, starch, sugar, etc) to the point they aren't above causing slight property damage.
Infestations are what you should really be looking out for though if it ever gets to that point, not so much lone instances.[/QUOTE]
It's rare for me to ever see more than 1 silverfish in a 24-hour span. And 95% of the time, they're either around the kitchen sink or the restroom, which makes sense because they like damp places, so sinks make sense.
I've gone entire weeks without ever seeing a silverfish.
They're not exactly a problem in my apartment.
Millipedes are adorable chill ass legged worms while centipedes look like they're meth'd up and ready to kill anything that gets close. I'll take the former please.
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;52522552]It's rare for me to ever see more than 1 silverfish in a 24-hour span. And 95% of the time, they're either around the kitchen sink or the restroom, which makes sense because they like damp places, so sinks make sense.
I've gone entire weeks without ever seeing a silverfish.
They're not exactly a problem in my apartment.[/QUOTE]
Until you open up a floorboard and find out the ones you see are just adventurous and there's thousands in every dark crevice of your house.
I really don't see where all the hate for centipedes is coming from - both centipedes and millipedes are really fucking cool.
Like yeah some species of centipede can fuck you up but millipedes aren't exactly perfect either because most of them are actually capable of producing irritants as a defense mechanism, the most glaring of which being hydrogen cyanide.
I think some insects are pretty chill. Honestly if they can't harm humans I don't mind them being about. They're cute little things.
Fuck the posionious ones though.
And Asian hornets.
FUCK ASIAN HORNETS HOLY SHIT FUCKING MURDER THEM.
[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;52522884]I think some insects are pretty chill. Honestly if they can't harm humans I don't mind them being about. They're cute little things.
Fuck the posionious ones though.
And Asian hornets.
FUCK ASIAN HORNETS HOLY SHIT FUCKING MURDER THEM.[/QUOTE]
[video=youtube;8cJ-YI--Vm8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cJ-YI--Vm8[/video]
If I had the big guy I would just watch his legs all day, it really is mesmerizing
[QUOTE=Foogooman;52522988]If I had the big guy I would just watch his legs all day, it really is mesmerizing[/QUOTE]
"He's" a girl you dingus.
Silverfish are garbage creatures and are one of the only house bugs I kill on sight (the rest I catch and release outside). My library of antique books is constantly under threat from these worthless little fucks. If I ever see one in my room I'm going to flip. Fuck silverfish.
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[QUOTE=Dr. Kyuros;52523314]"He's" a girl you dingus.[/QUOTE]
Who checks for the tiny bug wieners
For some reason I have never hated these types of insects and they are kind of a close relatives of snakes or worms and as long as they are not 100% useless like some certain flying assholes its all good.
[QUOTE=The Duke;52521554]It has to do with erraticness and their quick running speed.
Most animals move slow enough to track with the human eye well and have relatively predictable patterns to their movement.
Meanwhile, the cockroach is one of the fastest insects in the world relative to body length (only a handful like the tiger beetle are faster). For perspective, if you were to scale up how many bodylengths a cockroach can run such that the roach was the size of a person, it'd be the equivalent of them running over 200 miles per hour.
Centipedes are similarly very erratic and quick. This makes them unsettling because it makes it hard to predict where one would need to strike or evade to if encountering one. Then you stack on how we tend to be afraid of venomous creatures due to the painful welts they can inflict and you got a recipe for an unnerving creature.
Basically, the slower an organism, the safer we feel about the whereabouts of the creature as we're more likely to be able to move it or ourselves accordingly should they go somewhere uncomfortable that we would feel vulnerable approaching (i.e. near a shirt opening if held, up a leg of a pair of pants, into a shoe, etc).[/QUOTE]
This is also why a lot of people become very unwary and unbothered by these kinds of animals after they've had them as a pet for a while.
Snakes are incredibly easy for me to track and their behavior is extremely familiar. Snake went missing x time ago? I know exactly where to check, under this rock here, they love living under rocks. Bam, got 'em. The same thing applies to many invertebrates and spiders for me. The spiders in my house don't even remotely bother me at this point because they're easy to predict.
hows the eyesight on these things? the big one looks like it's using the antennae to sniff its way around the environment or something
[QUOTE=Joazzz;52524323]hows the eyesight on these things? the big one looks like it's using the antennae to sniff its way around the environment or something[/QUOTE]
Relatively poor, the eyes are simple in structure and are the patches of lenses visible right above the antennae, it's just usually difficult to see since most millipedes found in urban environments are dark brown-to-black.
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The eyes of centipedes and millipedes are far simpler than that of insects, and are almost exclusively only capable of light detection, needing to rely significantly more on the organs on the end of their antennae to determine their surroundings. This is also partially why centipedes and millipedes readily evolve blindness in caves, as eyesight is rather unimportant to both.
On a similar millipede-related note, there are three kinds of millipedes out there. The usual millipedes you find and the pill millipedes (which evolved into the same niche as rolly-pollies/sow bugs/wood lice and can roll up into a ball because they are short) are relatively well-known, but the third kind is fairly different and despite being common in woodlands and suburbia, is usually confused with something else.
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This is a bristly millipede. Usually only about a finger-width in length, they often inhabit decaying logs and look almost like fuzzy caterpillars or beetle larvae if one isn't looking for them.. The bristles are harmless to people, but are positioned strategically such that predators like ants will get these bristles in their face, behaving like tiny, harmless (to a human) porcupines of the bug world.
In addition, millipedes in the past represented the earliest-known land animals and also the largest land arthropods ever to live, [url=http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/images/species/a/arthropleura-size.jpg]growing over 2 meters[/url] in the largest species.
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