Scutigera coleoptrata (House Centipede)

Photograph taken by on Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Scutigera coleoptrata (House Centipede)

Scutigera coleoptrata (House Centipede)

This was in our powder room sink this morning and so naturally I took it’s picture. I posted a picture of one of these back on Wednesday, April 09, 2014 but I was able to get quite a bit closer this time. This is the head end and you can see the two black, compound eyes and the bases of the two antennae. As I mentioned last time, as much as most people would probably not be glad for these things around their house, they feed on cockroach nymphs, flies, moths, bedbugs, crickets, silverfish, earwigs, and small spiders. So, on balance, not bad house guests, really.

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