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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

House centipede?

We get centipede but not in the house.

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[–] pageflight@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago

What other bug has cool matching stripes on all 55 of its flesh-creep-inducing legs? I both like and shiver at them.

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Those tiny guys are cute compared to this horror from Hawaii:

(Image from Wikipedia -- article is here)

You gotta make sure to shake out your shoes before putting them on and check your sheets before getting in bed if you live around those guys...

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Just looking at it fills me with horror.

[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Interesting, I didn't know that Aboriginal Australians ate them.

[–] callyral@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago

that's an evil land shrimp

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 4 points 1 month ago

I'm evacuating the house and burning it down if I ever see that

[–] j_elgato@leminal.space 2 points 1 month ago

The Devil's Eyebrow...

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

but not in the house.

You were saying?

An image of Cory in the House promotional art with the head of a house centipede shopped over Cory's face. Original centipede image from House centipede, face, beltsville 2014-04-21-18.44.09 ZS PMax (14053176887).jpg at Wikimedia Commons

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Fuck this whole thread. Triggering the fuck out of my "throw phone at the speed of light" response.