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House centipedes can be found in dark, damp places. Though it's rare, you can still find them outside under wood piles, leaf litter, and boards. If you have House centipedes you're most likely to see them at night, and in closets, cracks, basements and wherever its dark and damp. They usually get into a house by going through the cracks and openings in the foundation, or through walls and windows. <ref name=HGTV>. [http://www.hgtv.com/landscaping/house-centipede/index.html House Centipede] ''HGTV''. Web. accessed January 14, 2014.</ref> | House centipedes can be found in dark, damp places. Though it's rare, you can still find them outside under wood piles, leaf litter, and boards. If you have House centipedes you're most likely to see them at night, and in closets, cracks, basements and wherever its dark and damp. They usually get into a house by going through the cracks and openings in the foundation, or through 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 of [[arthropods]]. They eat silver fish, | They eat different kinds of [[arthropods]]. They eat silver fish, fire brats, carpet beetle larvae, cockroaches, spiders, etc. To get food they have to Inject venom in their prey. They usually bite once, and it doesn't cause more than temporary 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> | 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> | ||
