House centipede: Difference between revisions

House centipedes can be found in dark, damp places. Though its rare, but still you could find them outside under wood piles, under leaf litter, and boards. If you have House centipedes your most likely to see them at night, closets, cracks, basements and wherever its dark and damp. To get into a house, they usually get in by going through the cracks and openings in the foundation, walls and windows. <ref name=HGTV>. [http://www.hgtv.com/landscaping/house-centipede/index.html House Centipede] ''HGTV''. Web. accessed January 14, 2014.</ref>

They eat different kinds off arthropods including insects. They eat silver fish, firebrats, carpet beetle larvae, cockroaches, and spiders, etc. To get food they have to Inject venom into their prey. They usually bite once, and it doesn't cause more than temporarily pain.<ref>Jacobs, Steve. [http://ento.psu.edu/extension/factsheets/house-centipedes House Centipedes] ''Penn State University''. Web. accessed January 14,2014.</ref>House centipede predators are dogs and cats. <ref>. [http://www.thaltech.com/houseblog/2009/05/14/house-centipede-scutigera-coleoptrata/ House Centipede – Scutigera Coleoptrata] ''Jon's Home Blog''. Web. Date-of-publication May 14th, 2009 .</ref>

They are native to the meditarrean region and have been brought to many parts of the world.<ref>Evans, Arthur V. [http://arthurevans.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/house-centipedes-on-the-move/ HOUSE CENTIPEDES ON THE MOVE] ''WHAT'S BUGGING YOU?''. Web. accessed January 14, 2014.</ref>