Question: How Do I Get Rid of House Centipedes? 

same HERE!!! How do i get rid of them??????? I spray Lysol all around the house until I can't breath, it seems to work, but at the same time I think the Lysol might be killing me too lol

One time I was sitting in my basement, and one fell off the ceiling and landed on my lap. I freaked the fuck out and smashed the thing into millions of pieces haha.

A centipede sticky trap, u could possibly get it on amazon!.

Ultimatejuiceboxtube is correct. If you have these guys running rampant, it means they have a large food source. And all house centipedes eat are other insects. Spray, put bait traps out, keep the place clean and dry. The centipedes will leave when the food supply dwindles.

Also, once their food source is gone, they'll move out on their own, meaning you've got some kind of bugs in your apartment the house centipedes are preying on. But since you asked, get a cat or two. I used to live in a couple of places with house centipedes, and my cats were always leaving their mutilated carcasses everywhere. I asked them to please knock it off, told them all about how they should befriend the house centipedes, but they weren't interested in my opinion. Very annoying.

Omfg I can't stop laughing because this is the exact same reaction I had omg 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 my room is also in a dark basement,

Buy a de-humidifier and put it in your room. They like damp places and most basements are damp which is why they end up there. If the dehumidifier is in your room and you keep your door closed, hopefully your room will be less humid than the rest of the basement and they may migrate out. Dehumidifiers do run up the electricity bill so keep an eye on that. Lastly, you SHOULD try to get over the whole disgusting appearance issue as you already know they are beneficial and dont harm people.

Same thing i saw at 4am. I cant lay down. My bathroom is very humid and i dont know if its silverfish or not. Shit was huge and then a black and goldish one popped up a few moments later. So now I'm just messed up. The silver looking one was huge. Im staying up for the rest of the day. Im tearing my room apart until i kill ot

Yeah, I've seen a couple of these in place too. Basically, seal up cracks and holes in the wall, make sure the areas around windows, doors, pipes, etc. are properly caulked, keep the place free of other bugs. Beyond that, though, be aware that they can still get in through drains and vents, so you might want to place traps around any areas that seem like obvious entry points.

From what I heard the odds are theirs only 150 centipedes depending if that one centipede you saw has been Alice in your room for a full 7 years the best way to handle Em is kill Em on sight the odds are it was just a random roaming one, or you can just put sticky traps for it to see if the infestation is huge if it is definitely get an exterminator

And just so you know centipede do like hanging on the floore ceilings and walls and they are poisoness but they dont have enough poison to kill you they just make the area they bit numb

DUDE I know I have looked up alot and all I found is the same shit I GET so Manny in my house it drives me crazy I can't sleep because I just seen um well so my husband has this strange habit of falling asleep on the floor after dinner and I just seen a big ass centipede run tords him and is currently snuggling up with him as I anxiously tried waking him up but he opened his eyes for a split second long enough for me to scream there is a huge centipede under him he just said cool and back to sleep he went so now I'm looking up how to get rid of them and I'm finding nothing other then the same shit u found please if u have found anything useful please get back at us I'll just stay curled up and cry my self to sleep lol

USE HAIRSPRAY! I have no idea how to PREVENT them but a good way to kill them is with hairspray because it stiffens their legs and they cannot run away, then you can squish 'em (because its a pain in the ass to kill them since they are so fast).

Retaliatory methods may include keeping the light on as much as possible before sleep so you don't have to see it, proceeding with extreme caution when the light was off prior to entry, making freakout noises and yelling, "AH!CENTIPEDE!", scouring any traces of moisture that exist and may possibly exist and plugging up the baseboard cracks with more cawk than Jenna Jameson will ever see in her life.

If yours was that big, its another species of centipede that can actually hurt you. If you see anything under your bed that looks like a hair clip, don't grab it. I did so when I was about 10 years old and it turned out to be a 3 inch centipede. Luckily, it was dead.

Then, locate and seal possible entry points, such as foundation cracks, poorly fitted windows, etc. One way to determine the centipedes main travel routes is to place sticky traps (like roach motels) at various places around the house, particularly in the basement. Other arthropods caught in these traps also will give you some idea as to what the centipedes likely are feeding upon and thus if other control measures might be needed.

my room is in the basement too :/ I get them all the time around summer. But they go away in the winter. What you need to do is get is a dehumidifier. This will suck all the humidity out of the air causing your room to be an uninhabitable environment to them. They're body needs moisture.

I realize this is 3 years late and therefore is probably not very helpful, but I've had some luck getting rid of House Centipedes. I live in a basement apartment and used to have them EVERYWHERE. Squishing them with a shoe has been the most effective way, to be honest. Haha. However, I've also been using a botanical insecticide which contains pyrethrin and piperonyl butoxide. I just spray it along base boards and around windows and doors. It will also kill other pests. Bonus.

Omg! I know this is posted 11 years ago, but i hope you found a way to get rid of them! I have the same problem now...i have thank god not seen one in my apartment yet, but i live in London in a shared flat and it's pretty damn moisty in the UK, and we wanna move somewhere to the country side, in a house, surrounded by nature... but at the same time i am conpletely FREAKED OUT and TERRIFIED of potentially having these at home... and seeing one..or getting bit by one ...or even worse..this thing crawling on or beneath me while i am sleeping!!! I have an extreme Insectophobia, and these creatures can literally bring me a heart attack!! I am currently at war with cloth moths, here in the UK they are a problem, and i have set sticky traps, and i have lavender spray ...so far i have caught 3... today i saw a freakin cochroach crawling on my TV shelf... on top of all i have this itchy, crawly, weird feeling beneath me every single night when i go to bed... and i just hope it's not freakin bed bugs!!! So having house sentapiede would be just the final straw! Please if you read this comment, there is still no good suggestions out there, if you have found something that works..please let me know!! I am desperate..i am scared to move out just because there's a big chance i'll have these in the house that i move in , because of the shit weather here in England!

I HATE THOSE THINGS TOOOOOOO!!! We put peppermint oil on our floor crown molds and the ones one the ceiling too. I haven't seen them in a while, won't keep out spiders tho

Your house has too much moisture sitting around it, centipedes main habitat is mostly moist leaves and other debris outside of your home. Eliminate things like piled up leaves around the perimeter of your home and then spray the perimeter of your home with a quality pesticide product, not raid, its a contact pesticide and has no residual effects I would also apply a granular pesticide to your lawn as well as spraying inside Theres prolly a few behind that paneling Remember Centipedes

here's what one guy has said:(The lady he was talking to has cats)(I will split this into several messages) Dear Mickey - House centipedes need harborage (cover of some sort) and sources of moisture to thrive, so among the first things you should do is to make the indoor environment (especially the basement) as dry as possible, and remove as much clutter as possible.

i have the same problem as this guy, my room is in a finished basement and the back area is for storage and holiday decorations, its not like theres an "Infestation" but late at night i'll occationally find one scurry around, but that could just be because its fall now, i never see them in the winter. but its true as well that they eat everything (much worse things) so i dont mind them

ALL centipede have venom and they ALL do bite....except that the centipedes in America have weak venom and causes bite marks similar to more like a common house spider. Nothing to worry about. The ones in tropical areas are the ones you need to worry about as those have much stronger venom and can kill.

In the winter I don't see them but once it hits April ish, I start seeing them, like I kill about 3-4 big ones a month and about 2 baby ones a month, I just murdered one 10 minutes ago. I'm going to seal up every crack in my room, I renovated our basement from our garbage looking house basement before, so I'd understand why their still here.

Although more toxic than the aforementioned dusts, they also have low mammalian toxicity.

I have seen a few and killed a few buying a dehumidifier seems to help and sealing up the cracks in your house. Checking my bed right now seem to see them in the basement and bathroom like dark and damp areas. Have not seen any other bugs so guess they are doing there job.

In Soviet Russia, house centipede gets rid of YOU.

yes they go away in the winter, ive had my room in the basement here for 3 years now, its really only as the seasons change when i see them, they just want to come in from the cold and hatch in the spring. it doesnt mean your house is infested unless your finding nests of them

Use raid, apparently raid sticks around in your room for 2 weeks.

It says if you Google it put rock salt or any table salt around the creases of your room or take peppermint oil a sprinkle it in your room and the creases of your room and the closet and use a bug spray that very powerful one that kills all bugs indoor and out because I just had one and I got rid of it I have not seen one ever since and mop the floor with lemon dishwashing liquid and water

Go to a hardware store and buy double sided tape. Put the tape under your doors and around things like appliances that offer lots of darkness for every creepy crawly imaginable to hide under. Maybe see if you can kill off the things they like to eat and thereby eliminating their food sources. If there isn't any food for them, they'll leave. Hopefully you will find creepy crawlies stuck to your double sided tape and then you can peel the tape up and then dispose of them how you wish *thumbs up!*

My boyfriend got up a few nights ago at 3am to get me a bottle of water and there was a huge one on the handle of the fridge!!! I'm soooo happy that he got up for me because I would have died of a heart attack on the spot!

Centipedes only feed on living prey, so if there is nothing in the house to attract them, they will leave in search of easier hunting.

Also forgot to mention that they're just like cockroaches and light. If there's a light source, they will run away from it. Perhaps you can find a way to sleep with the lights on. Maybe try one of those eye mask things you can get at the drug store

I'm watching this because I found one in my room and I'm really scared.

It is 3 am. I have one in my room right now. I am F-ING TERRIFIED. I've never seen anything like this before. I'm so scared. It's on my ceiling, MENACINGLY. I feel like such a baby, but I mean really!!!, how could anyone stay calm with one of those things in the room!!

LOL!!! I love this line, Cause I do the same thing.. "Don't clean it up! so the others will see what there in for incase they have any ideas on coming the same direction" When I do this to Carpenter Ants, I watch some walk up to the dead Ant, then run away FAST!!, then in other cases, some C. Ants carry the dead home. Remember they have brains and can see or at least sense, too.

Finally, with the cats in mind, some dusts such as boric acid and diatomaceous earth may give some measure of control when applied to cracks and crevices where centipedes may shelter. These dusts have very low mammalian toxicity. Also, when the cats are not in the immediate vicinity, you could zap individual centipedes when you see them with any off-the-shelf household aerosol containing natural or synthetic pyrethroids/pyrethrins.

dehumidifier is the best way to get rid of them, along with getting rid of the other bugs in your house that they eat. Keep you house extra dry (like below 40% humidity) and u should be ok

What you do is take a glass jar,put corse tape on the outside of the jar.They craw in when you put the bait in,and they can't craw out of the smooth side.

You can't, even if you called a exterminator you kill them all MAYBE. But they can just come from inside again into your house walls.

the worse is if you squish them and the legs are left twitching...CREEPY

one of those dropped on my computer when i was using it and i screamed so loud

They become dehydrated easily. Reduce moisture.

yep .lucky me my apt is in the basement ...get em all the time..still cant find out how to get rid of em myself

Sevens is the answer you can place it around the parameter of the basement either by powder or mix it with water. O yeah tne oil you use to light your camp light lamp that keeps the at bay too.

These things may be scary looking but believe me killing them off will do much more harm than good. My new kittens exterminated all of them in my house in just a couple of days and now there are ants, spiders, gnats, and moths everywhere.

LMAO!!! The sponge bob killed me the most

House centipedes thrive on other insects. To get rid of house centipedes, just cut off their food supply. I actually came here looking for some tips. I'll try and get myself a dehumidifier =P

I can give 4 ways of taking care of house centipede you can do what i do and use a high powered vacuum which will tear them apart the second one is to use a clear container catch the centipede 3 use a shoe to kill the centipede by smashing it or buy hairspray and use the hairspray to burn the centipede hair spray will burn the centipede

i have this problem....i just bought boric acid & sprinkle it around the baseboards/drains/cracks...etc hope it works..also if you have a de-humidifier..use it...keep your basement DRY. seal any cracks in foundation & near windows. I f-ing HATE those nasty SOB's!

stop saying "don't kill them/ they're good ur lucky", why don't you go get some and turn them loose in ur own home... people don't want bug infestations! Why not say live with cockroaches because they clean up dropped food? spiders? I ts nasty for you/ guests when bugs(any kind) are on the walls!!!

My room is the 2nd floor of the house and we just put the heat on and it ran from the vent into my room and underneath my shelves which have a weird base with side openings like |----| that and so I have no idea where it is going to go and thank gawd I am up in a loft bed but I heard these nasty things can climb walls AND I WANT TO SCREAM IT'S SO DISGUSTING.

Dark , cool, and MOIST....get a dehumidifier. And keep your space EXTRA clean

the awnsers simple but it may take a while. First due some research on a insect that you may like. Then slowly build a army of said insects train them to grow food build homes and fight. after you have built a small city of that insect gather a group of the smartest insects and create a elite squad which will spy on the house centipedes. Now the attack needs to be thought out closely I suggest flying your troops in at night and suprising the centepiedes but what ever works. best of luck

The research you found is right, they make amazing pest-control. So I guess the best solution would be to keep the place super clean. If you get rid of all the other ants and insects and bugs, you'll get rid of their food-source. They'll either move on to somewhere else or starve.

I found a certain soap that kills them. It suffocates them, also cockroaches and some ants. I spray it around my house on the ground every month or so and clean my floors with it weekly. I use the soap to clean my dishes too. I just killed one last night that was under the garage door when I opened it. Then I sprayed the concrete where the door lands so no others want to hide there for a while. That's a sign its Time to clean and spray the inside edges of the garage and outside in the garden again! Next time I find one I will catch it and make a RU-vid video of how the soap affects it.

just buy a flame thrower

This honestly just happened to me! I live in a top story apartment with an attic...full of centipedes. On top of that, the landlord did a crappy job with my ceiling and there are holes around the sides, fantastic. I was just sitting on my bed and a centipede the size of my pinkie finger, I kid you not, ran faster then I can across my room and I woke my mother up at 3:00 am to kill it for me. I'm 16.

I hate to say it, but bugs are buttholes. We need bees, but, man, fuck everything else. I've researched them quite a bit and from what I can tell you have to play the "my house sucks" game, where you make your place unappealing. a)Get rid of the other bugs - yeah right... b)Get rid of the moisture, these things hate dryness - you're in a basement, but dehumidifiers may still have some effect. Moving to Arizona would be better, but that's not an option for most people. c)Have a pro do a+b.

imagine one of those crawling on ur leg...thats what happened to yesterday i sprayed Raids on it, died in an instance

Mines a zombie. I killed it and it came back while I was recording and I pissed my pants. He's been returning every warm night and stalking me

i have a question!........ do they go after u wen ur sleeping? do they leave u alone? wats the causes of having centipedes in ur house?

these seem to apear every summer. i see them come up in the sink/bathtub. so i pour random chemicals in the drains. hoping it helps.. :(

I have nothing against spiders; they also do a good job of killing other insects. But ...centipedes belong in the jungle caves.

I have those bastards in my house...in my room and everywhere. Now the area I live in has bedbugs, so as long as the centipedes keep the bedbugs away from me I'll be okay..... As long as they stop crawling on my ceiling and then falling x.x

ok it's been 12 years, have you gotten rid of them yet? Do even live there anymore?

Atleast you got it i couldnt get mine and now i dont think i can sleep in here😭

Fifth time ive watched this may be and i still laugh just as hard :o)

OMFG that's the WORST!!!! I hate they they just randomly drop from the ceiling... i have nightmares about that shit...

i bought a good tent and sleep outside...seems there are less bugs in my tent then in my basement where i lived.

Keep them as friends?! Wow. That's got to be the worst advice EVER. I had one in my basement once(crawling on my freaking arm) and it scared me like nothing else. I have no idea how to get rid of them, but I'll try to find out for yah. DO you know for sure that you have a lot, or if there was only that one?

People say "oh theyre on your side" i dont care! They're disgusting!!!! I dont want them in my bathroom!!!

@amykins83 use raid , i saw some centipides , in my basement but then i sprayed raid and they went away , raid also kills spider and shit like that so its really good , even bugs

if you are asleep you wont even notice....

Lowkey just saw one when I walked out of my bathroom. I tried to wash it out of my mind as a dust/hair bunny. I know what it really was lol. I found a dead bumblebee half eaten yesterday. This thing brought a dead bumblebee into my house.

I would like to help but...I have the same problem and I'm looking for answers... Sorry!

my cat doesn't even want to eat them....

If you saw a centipede in your bed...maybe it was doing you a favor. Think about it. Which bug do we always associate with beds? Now think what might happen once you remove a house centipede. Yup. If you figured out the answer, you're fucked!

i killed one with a throwing knife before it was funny and epic but another came up the next weak and you know spryed it with window cleaner dunno how dat made it dead but whatever.

man ur like me i have my room in the basement and i was going upstairs for a drink and what tha shiit i see a centipede on my stair way so i grap a shoe and raid and spray the hell outa it and while i do that what do i know another centipede run across the floor and i see another one by the crapet it scared the shiit outa me and i locked myself in my room ... i dont know when ill be able to leave ... oh ya did i mention it was 4:30 am!

well im not really a bug exterminator so i got nothin...

Nope actually house centipedes are from the Mediterranean ....and belong in houses...

Does this guy still see these comments?

ew,,creepy crawlers..I got the same problem!!! Ur not alone!!! I hate bugs period!

Answer: You don't! Suck it up.

i have a huge fear of centipedes. I dont kill them cause i cant, so i have somebody kill them for me. raid does wonders. every time i see one, i run out of the room screaming,"KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!!!!"

Lol good to hav them in the house where I don't see them

I have these In my room, which is in the basement. Yay. I am a teenage girl and bugs already scare the crap out I me. I see one of those and I cringe up. I'm lucky I haven't found one in my bed.... Yet :/ I seemed to see them mostly in summer though, and it's just not fall.

Dude....like fifteen minutes ago I was using the computer and then I heard this loud thump. Something similar to the noise of falling bird doo-doo outside. I look on my dresser and I was a huge fucking centipede. Apparently, it was crawling on my ceiling and it dropped on my dresser....I am so eff'n grossed out its not even funny.

Every time I see centipedes it looks as if someone photoshopped a daddy long legs and made it look like it had a thousand legs.

Actually, they do sting. And apparently it hurts and forms a decent welt. HAVE FUN :D

I Punch them because there so fast, no time for paper, then i leave them where i kill them, Don't clean it up! so the others will see what there in for incase they have any ideas on coming the same direction....Always works! The reason why they gross you out more then a spider is because there real quick and have too many damn legs.

Okay Roger Federer

Get a dehumidifier, Raid for spiders kills them, or my cat who loves to chase and eat them..ggggrosssss(omit Raid)

Sad Story: i kill at least 1 of those bastards a day in my room and recently i was chillin in my bed about to go to sleep when 1 ran right by my head. I damn near killed myself jumpin out the bed, i searched for it afterwards and couldnt find it so i didnt sleep that night.. Now i sleep with a can of Raid

I sleep with a raid right next to me

Probably a tank with mortar shells

dis vid is hilarious i have lots of those things too and im freaking out now cuz theres a huge black one running around downstairs it ran right past my foot