i posted another shot of this bug before, but it was a bad shot. i couldn't get one of it crawling but i got one of it laying still curled up. i do know that the cutworm/slug/snail dry bug killer i through down to kill these has worked great. i had thousands and now i had a harder time findng one to take a pic of. well not that hard of a time. :)
They are centipedes and actually are not bad bugs. They eat decomposing stuff like dead leaves. When there is a wet spring and summer there are more of them.
cala, are yu sure? i'm not trying to be a pain but all the picks i've seen in my google searches have centipedes with there legs out to the side when stretched out and this bugs legs are straight. it is black when stretched out and it scoots along at a good pace. but not quick enough not to be able to kill it easily.
i found out what it was, thanks to calalily pointing me in the right direction. it is a millipede.
"Their diet consists of damp and decaying wood and plant materials. They may invade the house during extremely wet seasons.
Millipedes are oval, 1-1/2 inches long, segmented with many legs, coiling up when resting or dead..
Every millipede has two pairs of legs attached to each apparent body segment.
Most millipedes are brown or black, but some species are orange or red.
Millipedes are found outdoors in situations where there is moisture and decaying organic matter, such as under trash, grass clippings, mulch, rotting firewood, leaf litter, etc.
Their diet consists of damp and decaying wood and plant materials. They scavenge feeding on decaying organic matter.
i found out the centipedes are carniverous and eat insects and even small animals. yuck that has to be one big centipede.
thank you cala, it was hard to tell what it was from this picture and i appreciate your help.
debi z
Glad I could help even if I was a bit "confused" lol. I still have trouble with the millipede/centipede differentiation.
when i was looking them up the images that came up on google were grossing me out. all i know is i'm grateful that mine are little 1" things and not some of the big old things people were actually having crawl on there hands. ugh and gross!
