How to Get Rid of House Centipedes

I don't need any roommates at this point in my life. I'm evicting these little aliens. The good news here is centipedes don’t typically attack your homes in swarms, like termites or cockroaches. Sure they're ugly, but they're not really dangerous. (They have been known to bite though.) So, odds are I was probably just dealing with that one -- maybe he had a buddy lurking in the shadows. I could've just squashed him, and been done with it. 


Or... I could've put the monster in a jar and taken him to the garden. If I only had a garden...and a jar. I guess what I was more concerned about was keeping them  out of my house for good. Sure, they eat bedbugs, termites and roaches. But who wants to make that trade? I'd rather just have no bugs and leave it at that. And therein lies the paradox.


You have to get rid of their food source to get rid of them. And what is their food source? Why other bugs of course. When there are no bugs to eat, the centipedes are forced to flee your home to find eats. Some other things that don't involve pest control per se that I'm probably going to have to do to ensure these things stay outside where they belong are as follows:

• Screens in the basement drain windows 
• Filling cement cracks.
• Cutting back the overgrown foliage around the house
• Put our a little boric acid around the perimeter

These steps could also help with some of the other bugs now residing in my beautiful dump. I don't know *exasperated exhalation* we'll see. 

More House Centipedes

I wasn't fast enough with the my phone camera (and I was cowering in the corner like the maid in a Tom & Jerry cartoon) to catch the centipede on video, but I did manage to find some video of one. You'll see why I was taken aback.