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Are common house centipedes dangerous?

Eliminating roaches with house centipedes?

  • I am currently using the 3-step "Roach Control Program" posted on the Raid website, but I was just wondering if setting one or two centipedes loose in the house would help. I've read that these house centipedes are excellent at ridding the house of insects, but was wondering if there are any "sterile" centipedes I can buy anywhere. Was thinking about just catching one at a friend's house but then I thought "What happens when they reproduce/multiply?" I don't want to catch one of them and set it loose only to have a centipede problem next. Or maybe this is a crazy idea altogether. But when you have to live in what seems like a scene from Joe's Apartment, I'm willing to try anything. By the way, I just moved not long ago, and am not aggravating the roach situation as I eat outside and am very clean and sanitary. Plugged the holes with caulk, using the Raid products, etc... I am getting paranoid! Help!! (Living in top floor of apt (7th floor), next door tenants do NOT have roaches.)

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    defintely don't release the centipede, (if it finds a buddy you could have a centipede colony too). If there really freaking you out call in the heavy artillery (proffesional fumagation) that should knock um out, (along with whatever other little creatures are sharing your apartment)

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try sprinkling borax powder by the roaches entrances. It works and is NON toxic

Sonia

I never had much luck with raid.. I had a lot of luck with the Bengal insecticides and "Combat" paste which you put around cabinet and drawer edges...

Common Sense

Its not a bad idea- on the other hand, its not a good idea either. My family had a pet shop from 1968 to 1983, and we had every kind of roach. We did everything short of burning down the damn house to get rid of them. Finally, we shut down the pet shop, and in the middle of winter with the water running, we literally froze them to death. It wasn't easy- it took 3 days but that was the ONLY way to get rid of them. Good Luck

larry_the_orc

I think it is trading one problem for another. One insect for anohter. Try some boric acid. It is avail in tablets. Just put a tablet where you have a roach problem. (Make sure pets can't get it becuase it will kill them too) But what happens is that the roach (ewww.. I hate that word) will 'walk' on it. His/her feet will get all that sticky stuff on them. So the insect will lick his feet clean and BINGO! 1 less roach to worry about.

helpme1

ewwwwww centipedes sting AND bite get geckos way cooler tokay geckos are nocturnal, so you will likely not even see them i had a tokay gecko rid my lab of roaches...

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