A Mystery Unraveled
Jan. 22nd, 2009 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
perzephone
Awhile back, maybe even a year or two ago, I had a close encounter with an unidentifiable insect. I hang my robe on a tack in the wall by my bed. One night, I took my robe down & saw something... it might have been a vinegaroon, but it seemed like it had more legs & less hair. It fell off the wall & onto my carpet, but by the time I had called Rob to come look at it, it had disappeared. I just had this image of something long, flat & with many, many legs.
The other night I was looking at photos of a brazen pink centipede. Now, I always imagined centipedes to be flat, with somewhat short legs, never envisioning them standing upright on their multitude of legs. I saw something that looked like someone had smacked a cricket & a centipede together & went, "AHA! That was what I saw on the wall that night!" - a common house centipede. Other than the 'real' centipede we saw in Rob's bathroom, we haven't seen any more house centipedes, which is kind of sad because they're not poisonous & are supposedly a beneficial insect, devouring all other insects. Of course, we really haven't had much of a bug problem, period... just spiders. Most of our bug vs spider ratio problems stopped after we stopped spraying for scorpions (who were immune to all attempts at chemical warfare anyway).
Personally, I think it's kind of cute.
The other night I was looking at photos of a brazen pink centipede. Now, I always imagined centipedes to be flat, with somewhat short legs, never envisioning them standing upright on their multitude of legs. I saw something that looked like someone had smacked a cricket & a centipede together & went, "AHA! That was what I saw on the wall that night!" - a common house centipede. Other than the 'real' centipede we saw in Rob's bathroom, we haven't seen any more house centipedes, which is kind of sad because they're not poisonous & are supposedly a beneficial insect, devouring all other insects. Of course, we really haven't had much of a bug problem, period... just spiders. Most of our bug vs spider ratio problems stopped after we stopped spraying for scorpions (who were immune to all attempts at chemical warfare anyway).
Personally, I think it's kind of cute.
