ORIGINAL: SyCo_VeNoM
ORIGINAL: NOVAMEGA
It's a silverfish ....... They eat books
nope its not a silver fish I have those in the house from time to time in the basement
That is a silver fish
The thing Sheo has is a house centipede(like someone else said also sometimes called a thousand legger) we get them quite often in winter around here due to it being an older house, and when it gets cold once the heaters go on they run out. Actually saw one at work last night running around. As for poisonous I don't thing they could cause harm to a human, or anything else bigger than a bug.
Centipedes usually are found in damp, dark places, such as under stones, leaf mulch, or logs. Indoors, centipedes may occur in damp areas of basements, closets, or bathrooms, or anywhere in the home where insects occur. During the day they hide in dark cracks and crevices, coming out at night to search for insects to eat.
I sometimes find the reaction people have to them hilarious I've seen grown men jump like a little kid when they run out
Maybe its used to be fascinated with insects when I was a kid, and would catch anything, and everything I saw (even had a black widow at one point, scared the crap out of me when I found out what it was
) that they don't bother me. Only insects I hate are roaches(due to their reproductive, and invasive abilities, otherwise I'm facinated with them), and bees(was stung way too many times as a kid)
Fear of segmented exoskeletal creatures is a vestigial genetic safety mechanism. If you believe in evolution (don't want to exclude or upset anybody, jus in case), then you probably heard that all mammals on earth except the dolphins and whales basically evolved from amphibians and mouse like animals after the death of the dinosaurs. At that time, most stinging insects were still large and extremely fatal to our mousy ancestors. Self preservation is the strongest instinct any living creature has (except man and lemmings of course) and the instinctual fear of large stinging insects, brightly coloured insects, some arthropods, snakes, arachnids, scorpids, etc, is something that has stayed with us from millions of years ago. There is evidence (And I think Syco here is case in point, plus a couple of kids I saw on the beach other day playing with a praying mantis!) that it is slowly being phased out of our genetics as time goes by, but many of us still have it, particularly females as their job was traditionally protecting the young.
Ah, isn't nature interesting.