I have one like this, she’s having fun. It’s to the point where I don’t even kill roaches anymore, I just wish them luck and find their corpse in the morning. One time she ripped the tail off a skink, but he got away and hid for like 3 days until I found him and let him outside lol.
Cat be like:
My cats once got in a fight with a praying mantis in an old townhouse.
I’d seen praying mantisses before but this one was a. in my home and b. large enough to be genuinely a little intimidating. The cats won, but it took a long time because they were being more cautious than usual.
I once woke up in the middle of the night to see my cat straight up jump onto a vertical wall, strike a house centipede, and then eat half of it. I found the legs on the desk in the morning…
Aw, they saved you some!
House centipede?
We get centipede but not in the house.
Also known as a “Nope”
What other bug has cool matching stripes on all 55 of its flesh-creep-inducing legs? I both like and shiver at them.
Those tiny guys are cute compared to this horror from Hawaii:
(Image from Wikipedia – article is here)
You gotta make sure to shake out your shoes before putting them on and check your sheets before getting in bed if you live around those guys…
Interesting, I didn’t know that Aboriginal Australians ate them.
Just looking at it fills me with horror.
I’m evacuating the house and burning it down if I ever see that
that’s an evil land shrimp
The Devil’s Eyebrow…
Fuck this whole thread. Triggering the fuck out of my “throw phone at the speed of light” response.
but not in the house.
You were saying?
The M on his head stands for “Murder.”
That is enough “work” to earn their keep for the rest of their life right?
I didn’t know we had centipedes that would come inside before living in a flat that was half way in a basement. Also didn’t know a colony of silverfish was a thing. Centipedes, who obviously were in for a buffet, were nothing compared to that silvery fishy horror that I discovered rustling under the floor cover of my dog’s food bowls at midnight. Didn’t live there long after that.
savagely cute
