How did it get there?

Neadine · 26-01-2013 1:21am #1

I just found a centipede type creature on the bathroom floor. How the hell did he get there? Bathroom is upstairs and all the windows are closed. What other monsters are lurking around the place?

admiralofthefleet · 26-01-2013 1:23am

the plughole in your bath/shower would be my guess

ITS_A_BADGER · 26-01-2013 1:24am

What ever you do OP dont turn your back on the centipede creature, sounds scary as fcuk!!

Larianne · 26-01-2013 1:24am

Bet there's an earwig in your bed!

stop animal cruelty · 26-01-2013 1:24am

Neadine wrote: »

I just found a centipede type creature on the bathroom floor. How the hell did he get there? Bathroom is upstairs and all the windows are closed. What other monsters are lurking around the place?

prob came up through the hole in the shower or sink, remembering hearing before spiders can come up that way

:(:( stick the plug in!

Neadine · 26-01-2013 1:25am

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

the plughole in your bath/shower would be my guess

Really? They swim, and stuff?

admiralofthefleet · 26-01-2013 1:26am

Neadine wrote: »

Really? They swim, and stuff?

they can crawl up when you arent using the bath/shower

Neadine · 26-01-2013 1:26am

ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »

What ever you do OP dont turn your back on the centipede creature, sounds scary as fcuk!!

He has left the building.

Larianne · 26-01-2013 1:26am

Neadine wrote: »

Really? They swim, and stuff?

Yes, that's why they have so many legs. Great power in them once they put on their fins.

Sarn · 26-01-2013 1:26am

I live on the third floor of an apartment block. Earthworms have made their way in! There's no stopping the invasion!

Neadine · 26-01-2013 1:27am

Larianne wrote: »

Bet there's an earwig in your bed!

Uhhhh, they are nasty looking critters.

LETHAL LADY · 26-01-2013 1:27am

With that many legs they are very competent swimmers.

Sauve · 26-01-2013 1:27am

There's most likely a nest of them OP. They're 'herd animals'.
I wouldn't move or kill it, or it'll send the nest into a frenzy.

Zaph · 26-01-2013 1:27am

Just had a large spider in the kitchen sink. They come up through the plughole.

Neadine · 26-01-2013 1:28am

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

they can crawl up when you arent using the bath/shower

But it was used just a couple of hours ago.

Sauve · 26-01-2013 1:29am

Larianne wrote: »

Yes, that's why they have so many legs. Great power in them once they put on their fins.

Is it true that the legs have suckers all along the sides, so they can stick together and becone one giant fin?

gammygils · 26-01-2013 1:29am

Is it a centipede?

Did you count it legs? Is it male or female?

Neadine · 26-01-2013 1:29am

Zaph wrote: »

Just had a large spider in the kitchen sink. They come up through the plughole.

Spotted one of those out of the corner of my eye this morning while brushing my teeth. The fecker was dangling from the extractor fan thingy in the ceiling.

Larianne · 26-01-2013 1:30am

Sauve wrote: »

Is it true that the legs have suckers all along the sides, so they can stick together and becone one giant fin?

Yes, it's true!

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 26-01-2013 1:31am

Just wait until you are in bed with the light out...........then something runs up your leg.

or across your face!

ITS_A_BADGER · 26-01-2013 1:32am

Neadine · 26-01-2013 1:32am

gammygils wrote: »

Is it a centipede?

Did you count it legs? Is it male or female?

There were hundreds of legs and I think it may have been hermaphrodite!

Totofan99 · 26-01-2013 1:33am

Make sure you have shoes on! Centipedes can bite!!

Neadine · 26-01-2013 1:33am

Stealth Recce wrote: »

Just wait until you are in bed with the light out...........then something runs up your leg.

or across your face!

Thanks. I have to be up for work in a few hours.

Neadine · 26-01-2013 1:34am

Totofan99 wrote: »

Make sure you have shoes on! Centipedes can bite!!

Hmmmm, oddly enough I don't wear shoes to bed.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 26-01-2013 1:35am

Neadine wrote: »

Thanks. I have to be up for work in a few hours.

Looks like you are already up so! :P

Seriously, just as you are about to drift of to sleepy, snoozy snooze land...

BAM

Something with 50 legs, 12 eyes, 8 arses and 3 mouths will drag itself across your face....guaranteed.

keith16 · 26-01-2013 1:36am

I often marvel at such creatures....our lives incomprehensible to them. Makes you think.

Neadine · 26-01-2013 1:37am

Stealth Recce wrote: »

Looks like you are already up so! :P

Seriously, just as you are about to drift of to sleepy, snoozy snooze land...

BAM

Something with 50 legs, 12 eyes, 8 arses and 3 mouths will drag itself across your face....guaranteed.

Thanks. Such kind and comforting words to a damsel in distress.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 26-01-2013 1:39am

Damsel in distress?

You found a centipede thing in your bathroom. Will I call an adult?

Totofan99 · 26-01-2013 1:40am

Neadine wrote: »

Hmmmm, oddly enough I don't wear shoes to bed.

You're in trouble so!

Doc Ruby · 26-01-2013 1:41am

They drop off the trees and land in your hair, then snuggle up close to you while you sleep. Think I'm kidding? Set your alarm clock for 3.12am some day and see what runs off your bed.

Scruffles · 26-01-2013 1:41am

it had probably got caught on something from outside and made its way in that way.
last year had found one scuttling across the bedroom floor whilst was sat down on it using laptop,stuk it in a tuppaware box and got it put back out in the grass,also got a photo of the beauty-
http://radiant-bantam.deviantart.com/gallery/38852486#/d5ar68k
was really put off from sitting on the floor,well between that and the bloody ants who have started infesting the room months early.

one of the strangest insects have ever seen was this little cuteepie:
http://radiant-bantam.deviantart.com/gallery/38852486#/d5ar3fg
had took a photo of it and stuck it on DA hoping to get someone IDing it,staff here are the type who will squash anything that looks weird,but thanks to a DA user had found out its called a lady bug [uk-bird] lavae,it also goes under another name which now forget,and it is one of the most harmless insects will find which is funny for such a spikey looking thing.

and allthough it isnt quite an insect [a lizard to be exact],one of the staff here found what they thought was a snake one weekend on concrete near a back door,he took it to the vet, and it turned out to be a british legless lizard,have never heard of that one!
vet told him they live underneath the soil and to bury the lizard back under it.

another one woud pick woud be the madagascan hissing cockroach.
these are amazing,woud love to have these as a pet,theyre harmless to humans but have the reputation of being agressive to them due to the hissing.

Neadine · 26-01-2013 1:41am

Stealth Recce wrote: »

Damsel in distress?

You found a centipede thing in your bathroom. Will I call an adult?

It's ok, I've dealt with the situation, but thanks!

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 26-01-2013 1:43am

Or something crawling between your toes, something hairy.

ugh.

Night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs b......ooops.

Neadine · 26-01-2013 1:45am

Stealth Recce wrote: »

Or something crawling between your toes, something hairy.

ugh.

Night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs b......ooops.

The existence of creepy crawlies doesn't really bother me, so doubt it will impact on my sleep. Just curious about how these things get inside.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 26-01-2013 1:46am

Im creeping myself out here not you.

I suppose they just get caught up in clothes and stuff. Do you hang washing outside on a line? Any pets or anything?

Apparently we eat quite a lot of insects in our sleep.

TheUsual · 26-01-2013 1:47am

Thank God we don't have cockroaches here.
They are hard to kill.

ITS_A_BADGER · 26-01-2013 1:48am

Nothing worse then trying to sleep when you can hear a mouse scratching behind the walls

TheUsual · 26-01-2013 1:49am

keith16 wrote: »

I often marvel at such creatures....our lives incomprehensible to them. Makes you think.

Nope.

Neadine · 26-01-2013 1:50am

Stealth Recce wrote: »

Im creeping myself out here not you.

I suppose they just get caught up in clothes and stuff. Do you hang washing outside on a line? Any pets or anything?

Apparently we eat quite a lot of insects in our sleep.

Nope, no pets, no clothes dried outside.
Live in an upstairs apartment. No trees or things close by.
A few months back I woke up in the wee hours of the morning to find I was sharing my pillow with the closest thing I've ever seen to a tarantula!

Neadine · 26-01-2013 1:51am

ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »

Nothing worse then trying to sleep when you can hear a mouse scratching behind the walls

Now mice are a whole different story. HATE, HATE, HATE them. I moved house because of mice.

LETHAL LADY · 26-01-2013 1:52am

We have an invasion of earwigs in our bathroom during earwig season, I was told it had to do with the copper pipes, earwigs love copper and crawl up inside the pipes, might be the same for centipedes. I just batter them with my shoe until they are dead, flippin crunchy backstards.

Where To · 26-01-2013 1:52am

ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »

Nothing worse then trying to sleep when you can hear a mouse scratching behind the walls

There is.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 26-01-2013 1:53am

Neadine wrote: »

Nope, no pets, no clothes dried outside.
Live in an upstairs apartment. No trees or things close by.
A few months back I woke up in the wee hours of the morning to find I was sharing my pillow with the closest thing I've ever seen to a tarantula!

Fcuk that, I would have moved by now! They must be coming in with you somehow. Placing a shopping bag / handbag / sports bag on the ground before heading up to the apt?

Maybe a neighbour has been placing them at your door.

ITS_A_BADGER · 26-01-2013 1:54am

Where To wrote: »

There is.

Rat gnawing behind the walls?

*shudders*

Neadine · 26-01-2013 1:55am

Stealth Recce wrote: »

Fcuk that, I would have moved by now! They must be coming in with you somehow. Placing a shopping bag / handbag / sports bag on the ground before heading up to the apt?

Maybe a neighbour has been placing them at your door.

At the time of the spider would have windows open most of the time, so figure that's how they got in. Like I said they don't really bother me.

Neadine · 26-01-2013 1:56am

ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »

Rat gnawing behind the walls?

*shudders*

Now that is enough to cause sleepless nights.

1ZRed · 26-01-2013 1:57am

Zaph wrote: »

Just had a large spider in the kitchen sink. They come up through the plughole.

Hang on, there's a bit of a "how do they get the fig in the fig roll" kind of situation unfolding here.

How did they get in the pipes?

Where To · 26-01-2013 1:58am

ITS_A_BADGER wrote: »

Rat gnawing behind the walls?

*shudders*

It's not so bad when you hear them, at least you know where they are. It's when you don't hear them that you should start to worry . . . .

ITS_A_BADGER · 26-01-2013 1:58am

1ZRed wrote: »

Hang on, there's a bit of a "how do they get the fig in the fig roll" kind of situation unfolding here.

How did they get in the pipes?

Incy Wincy spider climbed up the water spout

TheUsual · 26-01-2013 1:58am

Mister Sandman bring me a dream ... make him the cutest that I've ever seen ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOPr0LqMnW4

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