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Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Newbies, restrain your enthusiasm. This is not good.

I was sitting here on the floor posting tonight, in my undies as usual, when the first centipede of the season sneaked up and bit me on the thigh, just south of the cheek. They pack a sting.

Haven't seen the grosser, bigger similar bug yet, but it won't be long. Newbies, if you see this other kind, some around 6" or 9", reddish-black, kill it with something other than your bare foot. They sting and some people have to go to a doctor.

Then there are the really big ones that like to live in dark places, like under your bed. They seem to be attracted to the smell of beer. They've been known to crawl out from under a bed and plant themselves on the face of drunken sleepers and suffocate them.

OK. I got carried away there in the third paragraph. Been thinking too hard about an April Fool's joke.

Porter_Goss · Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Location: The Wrong Side of Right

Man! I thought this had just arrived in K-Land!

Guess I'll just have to keep waiting.

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

Last year at my middle school one of the teachers found a huge one on the back steps, ran inside, and came out with a blow-torch he then used to BBQ it. Not recommended for indoor extermination.

canuck in Ansan · Joined: 27 Jul 2005

Thanks a lot! I knew there were big centipedes here, but now I've got that scary "pit of my stomach" feeling just thinking about them!

Maybe I'll set up some kimchi traps and keep any I catch as pets. *shivering in disgust*.... Shocked

Hobophobic · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:00 am Post subject:

Don't you ever laugh when a hearse goes by,
For you may be the next to die.

They wrap you up in a big white sheet
From your head down to your feet.
They put you in a big black box
And cover you up with dirt and rocks.

All goes well for about a week,
Then your coffin begins to leak.
The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out,
The worms play pinochle on your snout.

They eat your eyes, they eat your nose,
They eat the jelly between your toes.
A big green worm with rolling eyes
Crawls in their stomach and out your eyes.

Your stomach turns a slimy green,
And pus pours out like whipping cream.
You spread it on a slice of bread,
And that's what you eat when you are dead. Very Happy

chest rockwell · Joined: 16 May 2005 Location: Sanbon

you mean ones that look like this?:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8CL2hetqpfg

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

That's nasty, Mr. rockwell.

Ody · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Location: over here

Class: Chilopoda

SIZE: Slightly over 1 inch (25.4mm)

COLOR: Reddish brown

DESCRIPTION: Centipedes are reddish-brown, flattened, elongated arthropods with one pair of legs attached on most of their body segments. The first pair of legs is modified into poisonous jaws located below the mouth to kill insects. Their antennae are longer than those of millipedes. Centipedes feed on live insects and other small animals. They do not damage plants.

HABITAT: Commonly encountered in damp basements in the fall.

LIFE CYCLE: They overwinter as adults and lay eggs during the warm months. Usually eggs are laid in the soil and are protected by adults. A few species give birth to living young.

TYPE OF DAMAGE: Nuisance in household and basement. They feed on small insects such as cockroaches, clothes moths and house flies; do not damage food supplies or household furnishings. If crushed, they may bite, causing some pain and swelling.

CONTROL: Controlling these pests should start with reducing the moisture and humidity in the basement, then using household sprays.

INTERESTING FACTS: Centipedes sometimes live up to six years.

ugh! i think i'm going to faint.
too bad for me they don't eat mosquito larve.

these are the ones i kill around my house.

this is like the one i saw at my school last year, with black legs.

after i saw the big one at school, i stopped sleeping on the floor.
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Porter_Goss · Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Location: The Wrong Side of Right

Great, now I keep "feeling" things crawling all around.

Hobophobic · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:10 pm Post subject:

That centipede mouse video is nuts...I thought my ex-gf's boa was nasty...but that... Shocked

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Girlfriends who keep boas are suspect on SO many levels.

djmarcus · Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

And here I was worried about roaches...man...I hate bugs...anyone else encounter them in their apartment? like big nasty ones?

coffeeman · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Location: Korea

little mixed girl · Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Location: shin hyesung's bed~

oh god, we killed one in my house a few days ago...

and if i ever saw something like that thing in the video i'd need a gun or blow torch too.
that's friggin...blech! Mad

Charlieb · Joined: 12 Jan 2006

WTF!! That video is sick man. I had to turn it off, does that thing actually eat the mouse whole? Im not used to any bug being bigger than my thumbnail, do those massive ones actually make their way into poeples apartments in Seoul? I live on the 6th floor so they would have to do some hardcore climbing to find me but seriously, id probably poo myself if i encountered a 9inch centipede. Im gonna be living in paranoia from now on thanks to you bastards!!