Jill- You are welcome to come and *TRY* to scoop up as many as you like! You’d owe me more than postage if you want me to do it! Nightmares…well, I’m actually starting to ‘get use’ to them…not as in ‘hey, we have pets!’ or anything, but they aren’t waiting in my bathtub for me to shower or crawling on my kitchen cabinets or anything. They pretty much stick to the very back of the basement and out on our back porch.

Oh wait, I just clicked on your link and those are HOUSE CENTIPEDES. Nevermind. Those things are the fodder of my nightmares. I was thinking of cute yellow centipedes that you find in the woods…which makes no sense since we are talking about a house here and not the woods. Oh well.

Second, centipedes *EEEEKKK!* I hate them, I hate them, I hate them!

I have dealt with black widows, brown recluses, SCORPIONS! Flying cockroaches that are as big as your head - but centipedes freak me out to no end. There are simply way to many legs. They are creepy. They move fast.

Simple green, however, kills them dead

And so long as your keep the moisture to a minimum, you should see less of them (you could set a water trap too, to keep them out of your hair - I mean that figuratively, not your real hair. Oh, God, now I’m all itchy and I wanna wash my hair).

Ick *shudder*.

So uh, yeah. Good luck with that. Stay outside, or soemthing

This has explained why in our house of probably 1500 to 2000 books, we don’t have silverfish…even with many of those books in storage down in the basement!!

OK, so they prey on all manner of other critters whose presence I do not care for? And reproduce one at a time, as opposed to thousands? And do not get into my food or unwashed pots? Fine, they can stay.

Meanwhile, I get some amusement and excitement out of trying to chase one down with an empty cup at breakfast. Kind of a natural waker-upper.

Exterminators scare me more than pests. I think I would resort to it if we were infested with something that was making us ill anyways, but just to dump all that crap into the air, curtains and everything else, because of some ‘creepy-crawlies’, doesn’t sound all that smart.

Apparently glue traps or sticky paper can work for centipedes, but they can still live fruitful lives if they escape with about half of their legs…not to mention that glue traps can catch mice and cause them to die slowly and painfully — we have cats, so not mice, but I’d still be sad if it happened.

Tell Sean that if he wouldn’t drink it without 911 on speed dial, then he really shouldn’t douse the house with it!

So, yeah, I get you. Good luck! And wtg on the no exterminator. Sean’s answer to everything is to dump poison on it, sigh. I restrain him, but barely.