Each person, no doubt, seeks to create comfortable conditions for their stay. In this case, the house or apartment should not contain uninvited neighbors (flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches and bedbugs). This also applies to centipedes. But sometimes the conditions that are created in our homes contribute to the appearance of these unpleasant insects.
The likelihood that a centipede will settle in your home is very high if the room has a sufficiently high level of humidity. Of course, for any person she is an unpleasant neighbor, causing a natural reaction of disgust. However, few people know that the centipede home for people is absolutely harmless.
On the contrary, this insect brings tangible benefits. It destroys moths and spiders, cockroaches and ants, flies and bugs, that is, those domestic pests with which a person is constantly fighting. Therefore, its scientific name is the common flycatcher.
The domestic centipede in its appearance is a giant sized caterpillar. She goes hunting at night and can cause fear not only in a child, but also in any adult. The length of its brown or yellowish-gray with three bluish or reddish-purple stripes of the body is from thirty-five to sixty millimeters. The legs of the insect are not forty, but thirty. Moreover, they do not grow simultaneously, but in accordance with the stages of development of this unusual creature.
Under natural conditions, the habitat of centipedes is fallen foliage or territory under the trees. The houses have wet rooms. It can be a bathroom, basements or ground floors. All winter home centipedes spend in the most secluded places. With the onset of spring, they become active. If the conditions in the room change in the direction of lowering humidity, then these insects move to a more comfortable place for them.
A centipede at home can bite a person. But this should not cause concern. The insect is not able to bite through the skin. It attacks only for self-defense. Moreover, the poison in the centipede is weak, and the place of the bite does not hurt very much. Troubles can occur only in allergy sufferers. Sometimes they have difficulty breathing. Such people have a fast heartbeat and swelling of the throat. A person who does not have an allergy, when exposed to the poison of a centipede, experiences minor pain. In the area of the bite, he develops redness. In rare cases, lymph nodes swell.
A centipede at home does not like dry rooms. That is why, if you decide to get rid of this insect, you should dry the wet basements and pantries. In the fight against centipedes, you can also use sticky traps that are laid out along the baseboards and in the corners. Places where insects enter the house must be blocked. Cracks in the walls and foundation should be covered with cement. It is necessary to block the space around the door and window openings. A mosquito net is placed on the drain in the foundation. Any means of cockroaches and flies are suitable for bullying insects. However, it is desirable to use natural pesticides. It can be food grade diatom powder or
boric acid.