On 7/6/2013 11:48 AM, dsi1 wrote:
> On 7/6/2013 7:27 AM, casa bona wrote:
>> On 7/6/2013 11:24 AM, dsi1 wrote:
>>> On 7/5/2013 11:56 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Ugh that is awful Nasty things! How do you get rid of them?
>>>>
>>>
>>> According to Wikipedia, the Buddhists say that if you like to scare
>>> people, you'll come back as a centipede when you die. This sounds about
>>> right.
>>>
>>> I'll see small ones a couple of times a year and maybe a big one every 2
>>> years or so. Having chickens around is probably the only thing that can
>>> keep them away. That's my belief, anyway.
>>
>> We get them her also, long red-yellow buggers and we have pest control
>> spray for them, as well as the even more dangerous bark scorpions.
>>
>> Either one will on occasion turn up indoors, but almost always in their
>> writhing death throes.
>>
>> It pays to be regular with spray applications and we keep a small
>> sprayer of commercial grade insecticide to renew thresholds and window
>> frames following the monsoon rains.
>
> Spraying the areas where they live would help but I rarely see them
> inside the house and I'm not sure that spraying is worth the effort. I
> am glad of the chicken skittering about the place. They're like a
> centipede security patrol.

That's fantastic, a real cooperative ecosystem you have there!

> Speaking of which, our cat also helps with scary pests. The other day he
> was playing with a large cane spider in our house. When I checked on him
> later, there was spider legs scattered on the floor. Good cat!

Oh I've seen those, big scary looking buggers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlbrW55xgX8