Quick......Are House Centipedes poisonous?

[FSANE]

I was watching TV and I felt a little tickle on my hand and then a pinch. I look at my hand and there a House centipede on my right hand biting my right ring finger. I quickly slam the back of my hand against the wall and kill the fucker....then I pulled out one of the fangs.

It’s been 5 minutes and now my finger is itching. Are these fuckers poisonous to humans?

[Big D Z]

Sorry to tell you this, but you'll be dead before you read the next post.

[MegaMan]

I don't think so. Maybe that one was rabid, I've never seen one attack a human.

[DooberGN]

Was it your wacking off hand?

[sgt0704]

you've got less than 525,600 hour to live.. Make sure you contact poison control, and an exterminator..

if treated quickly enough, i think you will be ok.

[sgt0704]

House Centipede

The body of this centipede is usually only 1 to 1 1/2 inches long at the most, but it's 15 pairs of legs make it seem much larger. The body is grayish-yellow with 3 dark stripes extending along the full length of the back. The legs are quite long in proportion to the body size, and they have alternate light and dark bands running around them. In homes, the house centipede will prefer to live in damp areas such as cellars, closets, bathrooms, attics (during the warmer months) and unexcavated areas under the house. Eggs are laid in these same damp places, as well as behind baseboards or beneath bark on firewood. They develop by gradual metamorphosis, so immatures have a similar appearance to adults but are smaller. All life stages can be observed running rapidly across floors or accidentally trapped in bathtubs, sinks, and lavatories.

The house centipede forages at night for small insects and their larvae, and for spiders. From an entomological point of view, they are thus beneficial. Although this centipede can bite, its jaws are quite weak. There usually is not more than a slight swelling if a bite occurs. Most people, however, usually take a different point of view and insist that they be eliminated.

Control is a relatively simple operation if conducted with thoroughness. Residual treatments of Demand or DemonWP applied to cracks, crevices and other hiding places will give good control both indoors and outdoors. Dust formulations of Borid or Drione are very useful for treating wall voids and crawl spaces. Non-residual or contact sprays of CB80 or Invader will also give rapid control when used indoors. When treating outdoors it is necessary to treat thoroughly around the foundation and to treat the mulch in flower and shrub beds. DemonWP or Talstar is effective.

[0rion]

Sorry to tell you this, but you'll be dead before you read the next post.

that's funny right there...

[Anthracis]

Suck it up...you'll be fine!

[third_shift|studios]

i hate bugs....

[burnws6]

if it was like this one ure screwed:

[NE98LS1]

^^^^what the hell is that thing!?! burn, we don't want pictures of things that crawl out of your ass man!

[burnws6]

sicko...


NE...you got red now...u can stop flamin me...???

LMAO

[thecorrectformula]

I got bit by a four inch version of the one on burns pic when I was a kid. thought I was gonna die. It was the most painful little bastard I've ever seen. It swelled up good but it was okay by the next day. But I still screamed like a little girl.

[SexOnWheels]

^^^^what the hell is that thing!?! burn, we don't want pictures of things that crawl out of your ass man!

What happened FSANE? Did you lose the finger?

[third_shift|studios]

I got bit by a four inch version of the one on burns pic when I was a kid. thought I was gonna die. It was the most painful little bastard I've ever seen. It swelled up good but it was okay by the next day. But I still screamed like a little girl.

i'd scream like a girl now if that thing was behind a 4" piece of glass...

[FSANE]

You guys are assholes.

Thanks for the help.....

my finger swelled up 15 minutes after I made my post. I went to the basement and was looking for Alcohol or even Vodka...Fuck, nothing there. Instead I had a bottle of Bacardi. Poured Bacardi on my finger and it burned like hell.

Now this morning the swelling went away. That fucker was barely inch and a half....tiny M'Fer, but a nasty bite.

[FSANE]

if it was like this one ure screwed:

Imagine getting bit by the size from "King Kong" That thing will bite your head-off. Or like Spaz would say...."bite your head-off and drink your blood."

[SexOnWheels]

You guys are assholes...

[Silver Streak]

i'd scream like a girl now if that thing was behind a 4" piece of glass...

Me too.. <shutters>

[FSANE]

My camera doesn't have micro-zoom, so this is the best one I can get.....you can see what a tiny bastard can do.