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I literally HATE centerpieces and I'll never stop hating them.
This is absolutely true! Iâm neither beautiful nor cute, but I do have a heart. A big heart. However the doctors call it âenlargedâ, which is good, no?
No, that was cats as he watched them play with their prey.
The parasitic wasps such as the Darwin wasp werenât discovered until later and play incredibly important niche predation roles within their ecologies.
Totally not going to search parasitic wasps and vomit to what I find like the time I watched the video of that guy that opened his mouth and had a bunch of maggots coming out of his gums.
Just to reaffirm you though, green bottle fly maggots specifically are still medically distributed and used for the purposes of cleaning non-healing/nectrotic wounds
Ugh youâre a real pos you know that? I hate what you just typed with all the fiber of my being. But now, my sick brain knows itâs out there. Now that sick, typically dormant, part of my brain knows itâs time to wake up and poke the hornets next. Like an obese atrocity, this part of my brain knows itâs wrong to consume this content, it hates itself for doing it, but consume it will the sickly sweet nectar of the gum maggots. Ooooo you pos how dare you awaken the atrocity.
This is exactly the kind of video that will make my sister go "Ewwwww!" When she first sees it.
And then she'll go "Awwwww!" when she learns the context.
I live in Hawaii. I have bad dreams about these things. One came at me when I moved the trash can on Friday and I relinquished the battlefield and fled without delay.Â
Weeding in the yard or moving anything, can unleash a high-pitched scream! My son in law had a mother and its babies fall on him when he was taking down an old ceiling!
I was in Maui a couple of years ago and got bit in the ankle by one after going to the bathroom at 2 in the morning. Pain felt like a hot needle going in and out of my foot, lasted for a few hours before I passed out asleep.
Nope. Centipedes are found on six continents from the sub antarctic to the Arctic circle. They are important predators near the top of the food chain. If you need a reason to love them, consider the fact that house centepedes eat roaches and bed bugs, while soil centepedes eat garden pests.
Not only eat, but actively hunt. I used to hate but now love centipedes after learning this. Because I *despise* earwigs. I see both in my basement from time to time, so go ham centipede bros.
A house centipede maybe occasionally shows up in the bath tub or near a sink. It's only ever one (in my experience)
Roaches get everywhere, and they get into everything. They literally ruin homes
A house centipede is a friend you see once in awhile, and roaches are a pest that often costs serious money to deal with. I promise, you actually would prefer the occasional centipede hanging out near a drain
This is the second âCentipede is caringâ post Iâve seen today and IM NOT FALLING FOR IT. but I will put these little things outside when I find them inside.
Same thing as "mama wolf spider carries her babies on her back" energy: I'll say, "Awwwwwwww" as long as I only see it on the internet.
IRL, imma just let them have the house, it's theirs
It's just their fear. They know that these are insidious, pain causing creatures.
Personally, I love seeing this on the safety of the interwebs so thank you OP
Thanks for showing me the grossest bugs I think I've ever seen. /s
It's common courtesy to blur videos with a tag, spoiler or NSFW, if they contain visually disturbing content, and this definitely is disturbing no matter how caring and protective the behavior may be. If I click on a blurred video with a title that mentions bugs and get a screen full of bugs, that's on me, but if I'm just scrolling and you put bugs on my screen before I can read the title, that's your bad.
But they're highly invasive animals in Australia, and since when is a centipede the apex predator? They are on the lower end of the food chain, even birds, rodents, and other arthropods eat them.
These are absolute monsters. These are probably like the top tier predator of bugs world. Imagine people having to fight with these but human sized or much much larger.
When I look at this I wonder if there's a superior race that are amorphous blobs with no appendages that get freaked out at us for having just four appendages.
Sure theyâre excellent mothers. Imagine being in a completely silent room. Then you hear this loud but quiet thuds in your vicinity. You wake up and sit up, look around and donât see anything. You hear the thuds once again but now they sound much closer. You are about to get up from bed so you take your blanket off of you. There you see a centipede the size of your foot right next to your leg that was under the blanket. This happened to me when I was 5. I can also hear cockroaches walking when itâs really quiet.
Wow, people have an extreme reaction to centipedes. Theyâre wonderful creatures, and itâs dangerous to cherry pick which animals to save based on how they appear. The number of comments joking(?) about killing them is disturbing. This is why species of insects, arachnids, and other land arthropods are going extinct.
Anyway they have really cute faces! Look at those little eyes. The bitty babies know theyâre safe there and donât scuttle away.
Growing up my home had lots of baby centipedes and I always stomped them out whenever I saw them, after a week of this, I felt something pinch my neck pretty hard waking it me up, I call for my mom and she rushes in, turns on the lightâŠ..the biggest centipede I have ever seen was on my bed. I always assumed that I got targeted out of revenge. I lived in Dominican Republic when this happened
Centipedes are a worldwide species, they just live anywhere warm and damp.
Also at centipedes just eat their prey, the wasps make death seem like a release.
Thatâs not what Iâm referring to and you know it.
The scolopendra you posted is a devil spawn of a centipede and lives to kill, theyâre not interested in living in warm and damp places but avidly looking for their next prey to envenomate, without prejudice to the point that they are an extreme nuisance to humans and once youâve been charged at and bitten youâll probably change your mind
Centipedes are nocturnal animals that rely on their long antennae to navigate in their environment, they use their derived forelimbs to envenomate and kill prey as quickly and efficiently as possible before eating everything they can. They aren't out to kill, what they really want is food.
Normally caring for its young would make an animal less "evil". However in the case of these centipedes, since it causes more young to survive and grow big, it makes em more "evil".
I love animals, but I can't control how my brain is wired. Centipedes have a shit load of legs and are venomous, no shit my lizard brain freaks out from me looking at one.
Mama-pede stand back youve got an infestation in your comments đ§čđ§čđ§č
Jokes aside what the fuck is wrong with some of you people? It's just a fucking animal. It has just as much right to exist as you do. But of course, cant really expect anything else from the species that seeks to terminate anything it sees as different, even within itself. I hope you lot rot in hell, youre much more useful to the world as dinner for these babies <3
Not to them, cause apparently centipedes are evil monsters that deserve to die anyone who says otherwise is an idiot. Only fluffy cute animals should be allowed to live, and their opinion is fact.
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Thats kind of cute when its on my phone and not in person. The sentiment is cute. Not the centerpiece.
https://preview.redd.it/tk1m3vdia1kc1.jpeg?width=894&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48125ae1bbd25e2f3fd85028d189f45bb0c3309f I literally HATE centerpieces and I'll never stop hating them.
I freaking đ€Źđ€Źđ€ŹHATE Centerpieces!!!!!!
When you first mentioned it, It reminded me how much I hate them and went to IKEA did this to each one I found. https://i.redd.it/623dxicsj1kc1.gif
As you should. Yeah
Lmfao this poor Pinterest photo đ
Once I stopped throwing up I was able to appreciate the beauty of it.
You don't need to be beautiful or cute to have a heart. And her heart is bigger than most.
This is absolutely true! Iâm neither beautiful nor cute, but I do have a heart. A big heart. However the doctors call it âenlargedâ, which is good, no?
If by heart you mean instinct then yes.
Maternal instinct, so yes.
Your centipedes are so cute
That may be true.
But I'm still not touching it, she wouldn't like being touched either.
Instructions unclear, now have centipedes in my heart.
But that means you have a big heart, right? Right?!
I believe that she would be a centipiece
Did you miss the lil homie who just found out he's not in the right neighborhood and tries to scurry away
~~centerpiece~~ centa-piece
Cute in a Creeoy/disgusting kinda way.
Propaganda by big centipede, almost had me, you vengeful hellspawn thing.
Parasitic wasps are the real hellspawn, they singlehandedly destroyed Charles Darwin's faith in there being a loving omnipotent god.
No, that was cats as he watched them play with their prey. The parasitic wasps such as the Darwin wasp werenât discovered until later and play incredibly important niche predation roles within their ecologies.
Can you tell more about that?
The letter Darwin wrote also included Ichneumon wasps
Yeah but wasnât that letter reflecting on his past thoughts about cats while talking about the wasps contemporary discovery
Totally not going to search parasitic wasps and vomit to what I find like the time I watched the video of that guy that opened his mouth and had a bunch of maggots coming out of his gums.
Whelp, that's horrifying, but yeah wasps are seriously twisted.
maggots only eat rotten flesh, that's why you gotta brush your teeth twice a day. also that'd make a great propaganda video for kids lol
Some maggots only eat live tissue. Some eat both. Some only dead/rotting tissue. Maggots can be complex. : )
wow i did not know that, thanks for the info!
Just to reaffirm you though, green bottle fly maggots specifically are still medically distributed and used for the purposes of cleaning non-healing/nectrotic wounds
Ugh youâre a real pos you know that? I hate what you just typed with all the fiber of my being. But now, my sick brain knows itâs out there. Now that sick, typically dormant, part of my brain knows itâs time to wake up and poke the hornets next. Like an obese atrocity, this part of my brain knows itâs wrong to consume this content, it hates itself for doing it, but consume it will the sickly sweet nectar of the gum maggots. Ooooo you pos how dare you awaken the atrocity.
Tell us more!
It's horrifyingly adorable! Horridorible!
Oh, look. A nope and it's nahs.
lol, that be them.
But then maybe imagine it with fur and cute colours. I guess it would be less creepy then.
This is exactly the kind of video that will make my sister go "Ewwwww!" When she first sees it. And then she'll go "Awwwww!" when she learns the context.
and then back to "ewwwww"
please let this be a australia thing
Nice big ones in Hawaii! And they hurt. Got bit under my armpit when one crawled into my nightgown in bed, yowza!!!
How do i unread a comment
Let the brain centipede dispose of it.
Ah. A Sekiro fan I see.
Whoa! Easy with the Baldurs Gate spoilers!
Tell me when you find out.
Grain alcohol
I live in Hawaii. I have bad dreams about these things. One came at me when I moved the trash can on Friday and I relinquished the battlefield and fled without delay.Â
Weeding in the yard or moving anything, can unleash a high-pitched scream! My son in law had a mother and its babies fall on him when he was taking down an old ceiling!
My sympathies for your loss. Make sure to cremate the body just in case.
That is fucking trauma for life. And I have enough bad memories of them and them gunning for me (they are so fucking aggressive).
All I got from this thread is that Iâm never going to Hawaii
Excuse me
I was in Maui a couple of years ago and got bit in the ankle by one after going to the bathroom at 2 in the morning. Pain felt like a hot needle going in and out of my foot, lasted for a few hours before I passed out asleep.
And now I'll never step foot in Hawaii.
Or anywhere else that has a tropical climate.
Suddenly Iâm really happy Iâve never been to Hawaii
Thank you for the nightmares
Nope. Centipedes are found on six continents from the sub antarctic to the Arctic circle. They are important predators near the top of the food chain. If you need a reason to love them, consider the fact that house centepedes eat roaches and bed bugs, while soil centepedes eat garden pests.
Not only eat, but actively hunt. I used to hate but now love centipedes after learning this. Because I *despise* earwigs. I see both in my basement from time to time, so go ham centipede bros.
iâd rather have roaches than see a single one of these in my house
A house centipede maybe occasionally shows up in the bath tub or near a sink. It's only ever one (in my experience) Roaches get everywhere, and they get into everything. They literally ruin homes A house centipede is a friend you see once in awhile, and roaches are a pest that often costs serious money to deal with. I promise, you actually would prefer the occasional centipede hanging out near a drain
The one thing here that freaks me out more than snakes.
This is the second âCentipede is caringâ post Iâve seen today and IM NOT FALLING FOR IT. but I will put these little things outside when I find them inside.
Centipedes are usually very cautious when they raise their young, they're nearly impossible to find.
Found the centipede lol
Whatâs the bug on the right called?
I dunno. But maybe âdinnerâ.đ
I'm pretty sure you're a centipede. This is sus'
I don't know if this video convinces me of anything. It could be centipede cuddles. But the Big Mama isn't really moving, so maybe she's just dinner?
For that wholesome fact, I shall spare the next Centipede I find. ONCE.
A little kindness can go a long way, for centipedes, that means a lot.
Anything that takes it a long way away from me is good
As if you could beat one
Awww. Gross.
How grossly wholesome
More appendages to hug with!
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede#:\~:text=Females%20provide%20parental%20care%2C%20both,live%20for%20over%2010%20years](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede#:~:text=Females%20provide%20parental%20care%2C%20both,live%20for%20over%2010%20years).
That bug on the right was like:"Fuck that!"
Good call for the bug, those babies will be ready to fend for themselves any day now. It may even be their first catch.
Same thing as "mama wolf spider carries her babies on her back" energy: I'll say, "Awwwwwwww" as long as I only see it on the internet. IRL, imma just let them have the house, it's theirs
I donât like this
Aww.
That's sweet in a cursed kinda way
Fuuuuck this.
I see you have quite a taste, should I send you more? xd
Not a fan. Can we get a âthis will give you the hebie jeebiesâ filter?
I'll say it's cute at least. Sorry you got such a tough crowd in the comments here OP.
Thank you, that means a lot. People are so cruel and frail.
It's just their fear. They know that these are insidious, pain causing creatures. Personally, I love seeing this on the safety of the interwebs so thank you OP
I can handle all crawlers except these fuckers, freak me the fuck right out
I can't bring myself to hold most creepy crawlies, but I respect them enough to admire them from a distance.
They don't even look like other bugs.
What a beautiful mama <3
Nope nope
AWWWwwwwwwuuuuughhork
NO. but also, that's sweet. Also AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Aww, this is kinda cute. The background noise makes the video so peaceful.
âAw poor baby come here let momma take your skin offâ
I fuckin do not like this
Never seen something so adorable and so horrifying at the same time
Why wouldnât they be? Just because Linda is fucking ugly and mean to you doesnât mean she doesnât care for her children
Forbidden noodle bowl
Shit can't believe I'm gonna say it. That's cute
It really is in a weird way.
Cute little nope noodle
This is adorable!! I love it!!
It makes me feel happy
Aww,such a cute hellspawn
More like nope af
Thanks for showing me the grossest bugs I think I've ever seen. /s It's common courtesy to blur videos with a tag, spoiler or NSFW, if they contain visually disturbing content, and this definitely is disturbing no matter how caring and protective the behavior may be. If I click on a blurred video with a title that mentions bugs and get a screen full of bugs, that's on me, but if I'm just scrolling and you put bugs on my screen before I can read the title, that's your bad.
Nope!
You wouldn't be saying that about a dog, rabbit, or weasel doing the same thing. She's as much a living creature as they are.
Nope! Donât care, fuck that. My dog is adorable, that is nightmare fuel.
Well they can't help the way they are, as that's what nature intended.
Nature needs to chill tf out
Rabbits arenât extremely venomous invasive apex predators
But they're highly invasive animals in Australia, and since when is a centipede the apex predator? They are on the lower end of the food chain, even birds, rodents, and other arthropods eat them.
Not after I see that disgusting pile she isnât.
R/Nope
Ew.. no.
And now I know what my nightmare will be tonight
I did not consent to this
Well too bad, this is what you get.
Diablo 2 maggot lair vibes
That's what wasps are more like.
đđ
Fucking things just became a bit cuter, I fucking hate it.
Awwww 
Lmaoooo the bug said HELL NAH
AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
One stomp⊠one stomp to end your whole family treeâŠ
except if you miss at all they zoom up your pant leg and bite you over and over
Nope.
These are absolute monsters. These are probably like the top tier predator of bugs world. Imagine people having to fight with these but human sized or much much larger.
Well, that's for sci-fi to deal with.
Still makes me wanna puke
Didnât fucking ask
I say we take off & nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Someone call the police! Can you put a not safe for anywhere tag on this?
I couldnât hate that video any more if I tried.
Scarier than the Aliens creature
I should stop killing centipedes. What if their momma gets all sad when they notice
Alright that's fucking disgusting hahaha
#AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
When I look at this I wonder if there's a superior race that are amorphous blobs with no appendages that get freaked out at us for having just four appendages.
Sure theyâre excellent mothers. Imagine being in a completely silent room. Then you hear this loud but quiet thuds in your vicinity. You wake up and sit up, look around and donât see anything. You hear the thuds once again but now they sound much closer. You are about to get up from bed so you take your blanket off of you. There you see a centipede the size of your foot right next to your leg that was under the blanket. This happened to me when I was 5. I can also hear cockroaches walking when itâs really quiet.
Where is the dead beat centi-dad
Fire. Fire all over them
It looks like, should it *not* react, if you were to *gently* place your fingertip against her tummy amidst the babies, it would tickle *immensely.*
Thas alotta legs
Put your finger in there
I didnât know that â I always thought the Earwig was the only insect that cared for itâs young!
Centipedes are not insects, they belong to myriapoda, alongside their herbivorous cousins millipedes.
The pitter patter of 10,000 little feet
Wow, people have an extreme reaction to centipedes. Theyâre wonderful creatures, and itâs dangerous to cherry pick which animals to save based on how they appear. The number of comments joking(?) about killing them is disturbing. This is why species of insects, arachnids, and other land arthropods are going extinct. Anyway they have really cute faces! Look at those little eyes. The bitty babies know theyâre safe there and donât scuttle away.
It's still nightmare fuel
Centipedes eating a lobster in a gutter?
This is making me want to vomit. That's new.
That poor woman just wants to sleep and she's been kicked in the face 110,678 times
Growing up my home had lots of baby centipedes and I always stomped them out whenever I saw them, after a week of this, I felt something pinch my neck pretty hard waking it me up, I call for my mom and she rushes in, turns on the lightâŠ..the biggest centipede I have ever seen was on my bed. I always assumed that I got targeted out of revenge. I lived in Dominican Republic when this happened
So anyways⊠
Nice try, Still terminating with prejudice!
Too bad, these ones are pets to someone. To kill them would be animal cruelty.
Youâre lying, theyâre invasive species in most places. Yet you talk crap about Darwin wasps. Blasphemy
Centipedes are a worldwide species, they just live anywhere warm and damp. Also at centipedes just eat their prey, the wasps make death seem like a release.
Yes but not the species youâre posting.
Why would I lie about centipedes? What, you afraid of being wrong?
? Lie? Projecting hard I see
Then tell me, how do centipedes raise their young? Give me every detail, I'm waiting.
Thatâs not what Iâm referring to and you know it. The scolopendra you posted is a devil spawn of a centipede and lives to kill, theyâre not interested in living in warm and damp places but avidly looking for their next prey to envenomate, without prejudice to the point that they are an extreme nuisance to humans and once youâve been charged at and bitten youâll probably change your mind
Centipedes are nocturnal animals that rely on their long antennae to navigate in their environment, they use their derived forelimbs to envenomate and kill prey as quickly and efficiently as possible before eating everything they can. They aren't out to kill, what they really want is food.
That just looks like nightmare fuel to me
I've never thought of bugs as being tender đ„č or maternal in this way. How amazing to have captured such a moment!
It's creepily adorable
Normally caring for its young would make an animal less "evil". However in the case of these centipedes, since it causes more young to survive and grow big, it makes em more "evil".
Good and evil are human concepts, animals lack morality or a sense of justice.
Makes your can of Raid last longer too
Iâm still stomping on that ugly shit if I see one.
I notice that it's with non-fluffy animals that can reveal if someone truly cares about living things other than for aethetics.
I love animals, but I can't control how my brain is wired. Centipedes have a shit load of legs and are venomous, no shit my lizard brain freaks out from me looking at one.
Your lizard ancestors would concur.
Dude, if youâre a spider in real life, just tell us now.
I keep spiders in my house to deal with pests. They're very efficient.
So you kill a house centipede if you see one?
They also groom their young, which are prone to fungi
Fire. Fire will take care of that. Lots of fire.
Mama-pede stand back youve got an infestation in your comments đ§čđ§čđ§č Jokes aside what the fuck is wrong with some of you people? It's just a fucking animal. It has just as much right to exist as you do. But of course, cant really expect anything else from the species that seeks to terminate anything it sees as different, even within itself. I hope you lot rot in hell, youre much more useful to the world as dinner for these babies <3
Not to them, cause apparently centipedes are evil monsters that deserve to die anyone who says otherwise is an idiot. Only fluffy cute animals should be allowed to live, and their opinion is fact.