Creepy. And I learned something. Reminds me of another comic strip that cracked me up. The gist:
God said to the insects "you may each pick three traits." The millipede said, "I want legs!" The centipede agreed. God nodded. "And for your second trait?" The millipede smiled brightly and said "More legs!" The centipede request the same. God asked for their final request. "More legs!" The millipede shouted smiling even brighter The centipede gave a sinister grin and growled. "Teeth."
That's a great joke. The millipede's enthusiasm is oddly endearing
Neither centipedes nor millipedes are insects.
You have them backwards. Centipedes are the ones with more legs
Google tells me you're the one who has them backwards. Here's an article from Carnegie Natural History Museum explaining the difference.
Makes me wonder if we ever do meet intelligent aliens will we instantly try to kill them not because we're a tribe based war loving species, but if it's simply because we're so absolutely and deeply repulsed by something so different than us on an instinctual level.
Or, as various sci fi stories have laid out, will they immediately try to kill us, because they are an insect based race and we are dealing with drones that only follow basic instinct, and we’d need to commune with the queen or some such to get them to understand that each of our species has a consciousness and free will, and we don’t exist in a hive mind
the one huge and quite funny flaw with that idea is that queens have absolutely jackshit power over a colony, if anything the queen of a colony is basically a slave that gets constantly pampered and directed by the workers with no free will whatsoever.
If we met an alien hive-mind species it'd probably be much like interacting with a military, just much more tightly integrated and profoundly devoid of corruption, imagine HAL 9000 but made up of a million people working together to run the computations.
So they'd likely work tirelessly to figure out what precisely we are, if they determine we're a threat they'd attack without mercy, and if they determine they can benefit from cooperation with us they'd be the best ally we could ever imagine albeit extremely manipulative.
Bold of you to assume there won't be humans trying to fuck them.
Porque no los dos?
Didn't feel the need to state the obvious lol
That's the plot of Starship Troopers.
nah, people work with deep sea creatures all day and just find them cool.
it'd just make international relations with them extremely difficult, honestly district 9 is probably the most realistic take on how we'd treat aliens. We'd be sufficiently unable to empathize with them that we'd treat them like shit, but there's no real reason to actively try to wipe them out.
Embrace the framling, study the ramen, kill the varelse.
Creepiest house bug ever. I let them be because they eat other bugs.
If you ever see a lot of them you’ve got another problem, that means they have a lot to eat. Could be an infestation of other bugs like roaches or a dead animal in the walls.
If you ever see a lot of them you’ve got another problem, that means they have a lot to eat.
But... not for long, so problem solved soon, right? Right?
these mfs are usually a canary in a coal mine. if you start seeing these everywhere in your house, chances are you have roaches.
Despite the name, no centipede has exactly 100 pairs of legs; number of legs ranges from 15 pairs to 191 pairs, always an odd number. (wikipedia)
wtf is going on with these guys
I mean, I have an odd number of leg pairs. You probably do too?
Woah
i mean, our arms are just fucked up legs, so technically we have an even pair of legs.
Four legs good, two legs bad.
This sentence took me multiple attempts to parse.
yeah but the range of leg pairs for humans is (comparatively) much more tame. this would be like if humans had 1-12.3 leg pairs. and crazier still, humans were named something like “6 legged beings”
Even stranger, the OP shows a millipede, not a centipede
That's very clearly a house centipede
I got stung/bit by one of those little bastards once in the shower. Usually they don't bother humans and their mouth stingers(kind of like legs that are turned into venomous fangs for killing other bugs) can't really go deep enough, but I guess this one got motivated once he started drowning and crawled up my leg.
What kind of insect is that? I can't think of anything with that many legs that eats cockroaches.
Insects have 6 legs. If I had to guess its a centipede drawn with too many legs per segment.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata
Commonly known as a house or carpet centipede.
The drawing is pretty accurate.
Silverfish?
Nope, house centipede, as they’re commonly known
Are there silverfish big enough to eat roaches?
I got bitten by this hell spawn. I was sleeping and I guess I was stretching my leg and laid my leg on top of this thing.
I have never felt so much pain in my life. It felt like my skin was melting and burning at the same time. For the next few weeks, the bite mark would randomly start to puss and random shots of pain.
I'd rather have roaches. At least with roaches, they don't bite.
Standard house centipedes (I'm pretty sure that's what's in this comic) aren't supposed to have a very painful bite. You may have been bitten by a different kind of centipede, or maybe had an allergic reaction, for your pain to be so severe.
There should be a fifth panel that’s says:
“Your chances are worse when you look like that.”
Then there should also be a sixth panel with the "I'm fast as fuck boyyy" meme
I developed a theory because of these fuckers, which is that the scale of a things creepiness is based on how many legs it has and how fast they are.
I used to get them in my last apartment and when I saw one I literally couldn't sleep until I knew it was dead
They also eat jumping spiders, which is why I kill them.
Spider is arguably less effective in terms of big-bug-eating, but I would choose spiders over that nightmare fuel any day.
Have you ever seen that thing dead in your sink, all soaked wet? I swear that's can't be something originate from earth.
"If it's more than 8, it's has sealed it's fate."
The reality is that these guys won't actually make a big dent in a roach infestation. They are pretty territorial and their population will always scale in proportion to the food supply, so if you have a lot of centipedes, you'll have a fuck ton of roaches.
I wish I had a couple of these guys. Nothing else I've done has gotten rid of the roaches in this shit-ass apartment. Might as well try more bugs.
Do you like reptiles? One of the reasons I got a lizard was so the occasional escaped feeder cricket could ravage the cockroach population in my shitty apartment. That mixed with diatomaceous earth has nearly elimated all roach sightings.
Continuously use the roach gel.
That's stuff (of any brand, really) will help a ton, but since you live in an apartment, you'll never be able to keep all the roaches away unless everyone in the complex starts doing something about it.
Yup, even if you have the place sprayed, unless they do every apartment at the same time they'll just run to a non-sprayed one and wait it out.
Leggy boi
I swear one of my cats can smell these fuckers.
Or they're just noisy on some level, and I don't wanna think about that.
You can hear them run on tile.
I wish I didn’t learn this information first hand while trying to be nice and catch one to put it outside.
You're a nice person. You'd probably do great in a first contact situation
Shouldn't it be "Can you at least look ..." instead of "Can't you at least look ..."?
