Comments on: Centipedes & Millipedes

By: Mrs. Jones

Mrs. Jones — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:54:36 +0000

We have a centipede invasion. It was nightmarish as one night we found 25 in the upstairs bedrooms. We live in a dome. Well, first thing we did after researching was to turn on the AC to dehumidify the place until we get an actual dehumidifier and second thing is to scatter torn up mint leaves around the edges of the house as well as cover the foundation with gravel.

I saw one after four days of seeing none and I suspect this is because we turned on the heat as it was a rainy day which predictably caused humidity. Does this mean I will have to freeze? What about the winter time? These are the things that worry me but until then I shall continue my organic methods..

By: Cynthia Miley

Cynthia Miley — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:14:03 +0000

I found one approx. 4 inches in length, I added it to my terrarium with my two Anoles, two Leopard Gheckos, my two snakes one green one aqua blue (I know not suppose to be blue right) they all live in harmony now for over 2 years. The Millipede eats of all things the chicket food and the anole food. I love it, since most people can’t believe they could all live together I am proud of the fact that they even sleep together, yes together…..why kill them?

By: Cahri

Cahri — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:21:56 +0000

They are probably wireworms
Regards
Cahri

By: Betty Pritchard

Betty Pritchard — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:05:41 +0000

Many, many of our yard creatures, which resemble the common bait worm but have very tiny feet, are everywhere on the top or just under dirt curled tightly. Can someone let me know what these fellows are? A neighbor picked it up, it did not bite. He said it looked somewhat like a centa/milipede. It appeared to be segmented but I saw no antennae

By: Len

Len — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:10:22 +0000

Nana’s Mothballs! (Old School Napthhalene @ Wal-Marts)
(Nana)
In 1962, my grandmother-from-the-Bronx (Nana)came to live with us in Georgia. When I picked her up at the train station in Savannah, she got in our ’60 Cheve, said: “This will make your car smell better” and threw a handful of moth balls in the back seat. While cleaning the car for sale seven years later I found the last of the mothballs under the back seat. Nana lasted one year “in the sticks” before returning to the Bronx. Nana dyed her hair red, said she was 58 and got a union job cleaning the 14th floor of the Newsweek building. Nana worked for another six years before passing in her sleep.

This morning the grandsons looked up long from their video games to discover we had a millipede invasion! The home entry point was via (under) the sliding glass doors from the patio.

I got my box of “Nana’s Mothballs” from the garage and the grandsons established a barrier in the aluminum tracks of the sliding doors that immediately broke up the attack and continues to repel the attackers!

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:45:42 +0000

I heard if you use sweet basil it works well. I am going to use some from the back yard put it in a blender with water and spray it on the areas they go to.

By: mike

mike — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 20:42:19 +0000

I have millipedes on one wall outside I have tried to kill them and been pretty sucessful at doing so but every night i get a snow shovle full i tried to use laundry soap but it killed my lawn and just gave them more food I found a few product at walmart that work pretty good they say they are moving because they are running out of food where they are and they tend to move in the same direction good luck to all!!!!!!!!!

By: Wade

Wade — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 04:29:29 +0000

I don’t have any roting vegetation around my home and I have never noticed these little inch long millipedes before. I have stone around the outside of the foundation. Does sprinkling lime help? i heard it helps for cluster flies..

By: Ginny

Ginny — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:51:02 +0000

I live on the ground floor of a senior’s apartment building. It’s on a cement slab. I have these bugs every year and this year they are ten times worse. I sucked up over two humdred that were crawling around my floors this morning. My vacuum cleaner stinks from their chemical smell but it’s better than bending over to try and pick them up. Nothing seems to work to keep them away. The landlord supplies those sticky papers and they catch a few but that’s it. I have birds so I don’t want them spraying in my apartment. When it rains the water runs under this building so it’s always damp and we have had a lot of rain this year. Guess I’ll be living with these critters till fall now. I’m going to try that laundry detergent mentioned. Maybe that will help. I also have a big turtle that likes to crawl around. I hate letting him out now because of all these millipedes.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:30:25 +0000

I began noticing millipedes all over the side of our house when we dug up our sidewalk and patio. It has been three weeks since the project was started and they are not only on the outside of the house each morning, but have migrated inside as well. After reading about them, I am not mortified, but will just give it more time for them to disappear. I sweep them up every day—–several times and try to pick them up off the carpet so they won’t get squished and discolor the fabric. I just throw them into the weeds away from the house where there are lots of grass clippings and tree branches. It would be nice to know when they are finally going to be gone. Interestingly, when we mulched the new grass seed we planted with straw, we found the little buggers were actually tunneling down into the ground and pulling the blades of straw in with them. Some go into the ground three inches or more. Fascinating!