The house centipede has 15 pairs of long legs. Its body is grayish yellow with three longitudinal dark stripes. This centipede is about 1-1 1/2” (25-38 mm) long. The usual pest species is the common house centipede Scutigera coleoptrata (Linnaeus). In fact, some centipedes have compound eyes containing as many as 200 optical units, while others have a cluster of simple eyes on each side of the hear or no eyes. They have small mouths and have large, claw-like structures that contain a venom gland. The heads of centipedes have a pair of long and sensitive antennae covered with dense hairs. In general, the body of a centipede is usually yellowish to dark brown in color, sometimes with darker stripes or markings. Interestingly, centipedes always have an odd number of pairs of legs. They can actually have anywhere from 15-177 pairs of legs with one pair per segment, depending on the species. thanks.House centipedes are easy to spot by their elongated, worm-like body with their many pairs of legs. I’ve had an exterminator inhere and found them alive and well! for the life of me i don’t know what they are! aside my own possible safety factor, i have a small dog and i am worried about the possibility of them being unsafe to her i know your next thought and already took care of it:i had her checked for worms and the vet says she’s fine! do you have any ideas what these things on my floor can be? could it possibly have something to do with the big worms? I’m getting really creeped out! could really use your help. if they move at all it is a slow pace remaining perfectly straight.but if you touch one at all then it starts wiggling. but these do not bother me as do these very small(just about in inch in length) very thin(almost like a drop thicker than a needle)rather tannish in color(they aren’t so easy to see as they blend in with the apt laminate woodlike tan color.) they stay very straight with no apparent difference in appearance from its head or tail but the same throughout. after rains i find very live big worms from the outside that i presume make their way under the entrance doors onto my inside floors. I live on the ground floor in a small apt in florida.
Infestations can nonetheless be understandably aggravating, and so the best one can do to reduce the number of millipedes on one’s property is to make sure they do not have access to areas on one’s property that mimic their natural habitat. They are not pests, nor are they harmful to the environment or people. To conclude, the worm that our reader is asking about is a common millipede. Although this is not a long-term solution to the issue, it may ease her mind in the moment when she wishes to relax on her porch without thinking of the millipedes. In the mean time, perhaps when our reader wishes to go out on her porch, she can sweep the millipedes gently onto the ground. Otherwise, the best one can do is wait it out until the colder seasons come and the millipedes disperse. This may decrease the number of millipedes that come onto one’s property as they are forced to find shelter elsewhere. The best one can do to prevent a millipede infestation is to rid one’s property of any damp areas where the millipedes may be residing. Not only do we not recommend using insecticides or other means of killing creatures, especially in the case of millipedes, who are not pests but beneficial to the environment, but this will not prevent more millipedes from appearing at one’s home. The solution to this infestation is not as simple as using bug spray or bleach as our reader has already tried. In fact, it might be the rocks around the reader’s property that are housing these millipedes during the day. Unfortunately, this does little to stop millipedes from coming to her property. Additionally, our reader has pointed out that rocks have been piled around her property. This is why the millipedes are so prevalent during the night.
In the case of our reader, who lives in a new housing development, millipedes will hide during the hot day, either in the crooks of door frames and windowsills, in the shade of rocks, or underneath wood.
Millipedes thrive in cool, damp environments where they can feed off decaying plant matter and other organic matter. Most millipedes have about three pairs of legs per segment, thus having a total of 160 along their inch (to one-and-a-half-inch) long bodies. These critters, although appearing worm-like, are arthropods, meaning they have legs underneath their bodies (which are difficult to see from the picture) that are joint at several segments. Although it might be of small comfort to our reader, we are able to identify the creature as a millipede! This one in particular is about as generic of a millipede as you can find. Our reader says she is “desperate” to be rid of these creatures, which come out during the night and make spending time on her porch uncomfortable as they cover its surface.
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