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ysdaskyblu Los Angeles, CA Feb 27, 2014

My parents and I found this on our bathroom wall. It was relatively HUGE (the body part alone, without the legs, was as long as my index finger). It also crawled pretty fast once it was on the floor.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Feb 28, 2014

House centipede - look up "Scutigera coleoptrata"...

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_Ric Springfield, VA Apr 23, 2014

I found one of these in one of our bathrooms, too. According to Wiki they are "good guys" and eat other insects like termites, ants, etc. So, I took him out and put him behind my firewood pile to keep my firewood from being eaten up.

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_Ric Springfield, VA Apr 23, 2014

ps I had never seen one before. Wiki says they are from the Mediterranean. Are they a new invasive species here now?

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Apr 24, 2014

They have been in this country for quite some time; at least since the early 19th Century.

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