CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Are centipedes social animals?

Are centipedes social animals?

Yes

Centipede's life habits

1. Like to live in groups: Centipedes have the habit of living together, big and small. Centipedes in the same group can live in harmony and rarely fight and kill each other. If the habitat is too small and there are too many centipedes, the old centipedes will automatically leave and find another habitat.

2. Centipedes are timid and easily frightened. If they are slightly frightened, they will stop eating, flee from their nests, or curl up motionless. Female centipedes that are laying eggs will immediately stop laying eggs, while centipedes that are incubating eggs will, contrary to their normal behavior, eat the eggs if frightened.

3. They like dark and humid places. Wild centipedes mostly live on hillsides, fields, roadsides, weedy places, or in firewood piles and gaps between roof tiles. They also often live in dark corners such as kitchen corners. Centipede footprints are also often seen under the bricks and tiles around pig pens and chicken coops.

4. They live in their nests during the day and come out at night. The peak of centipede activity is from 8 to 12 p.m., and they usually return to their nests to rest before 4 a.m. It is difficult to see centipedes after daybreak.

During the day, the centipede has poor eyesight and cannot see clearly things that are slightly far away, making it difficult for it to find food and defend against enemies. It can only rely on a pair of slender tentacles extending forward to find its way, and also rely on its tentacles to search for prey and find food at night.

5. Licking habits

Centipedes frequently lick their antennae and legs with the dense hairs on the protrusions of the first maxilla and the base of the maxilla, the brush-like bristles on the back of the second maxilla, and the saliva from their mouths. They also lick their own nests to keep them clean.

6. Temperature Centipedes are temperature-changing animals, and all their activities are often related to temperature. The most suitable temperature for centipedes to grow and develop is 25℃～32℃. When the temperature is 11℃～15℃, centipedes will reduce their foraging, stop mating and lay eggs. When the temperature drops below 10℃, centipedes will stop all activities, drill into the loose soil (or nest soil), curl up and hibernate. However, when the temperature rises to 33℃～35℃, all its activities will be suspended due to the loss of water in the body. If the temperature rises above 36℃, the body will lose too much water, causing the body to dry up and die.

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No

Centipede's living environment

Think about the body structure of the centipede, and then think about where your home is connected to the outside world, and you will get the answer: That's right! It comes from the sewer, especially the sewer in the bathroom. If you suddenly turn on the light at night, you may see the centipede. Because your home is on the top floor, it usually doesn't climb up the wall. Centipedes like damp, dark and unventilated places. The situation in your home may be more suitable for the survival environment of centipedes. Centipedes have strong vitality. If you want to eradicate them at home, it is better to hire a special pest control company, because centipedes can drill into small cracks, so it is difficult for us who are not professionals to kill them completely. Finally, a piece of advice for you, since centipedes have entered your home, please clean up the garbage in time, especially chicken bones. Centipedes have an almost morbid obsession with chicken. . . .

1. Like to live in groups: Centipedes have the habit of living together, big and small. Centipedes in the same group can live in harmony and rarely fight and kill each other. If the habitat is too small and there are too many centipedes, the old centipedes will automatically leave and find another habitat.

2. Centipedes are timid and easily frightened. If they are slightly frightened, they will stop eating, flee from their nests, or curl up motionless. Female centipedes that are laying eggs will immediately stop laying eggs, while centipedes that are incubating eggs will, contrary to their normal behavior, eat the eggs if frightened.

3. They like dark and humid places. Wild centipedes mostly live on hillsides, fields, roadsides, weedy places, or in firewood piles and gaps between roof tiles. They also often live in dark corners such as kitchen corners. Centipede footprints are also often seen under the bricks and tiles around pig pens and chicken coops.

4. They live in their nests during the day and come out at night. The peak of centipede activity is from 8 to 12 p.m., and they usually return to their nests to rest before 4 a.m. It is difficult to see centipedes after daybreak.

During the day, the centipede has poor eyesight and cannot see clearly things that are a little far away, so it is difficult for it to find food and defend against enemies. It only uses a pair of slender tentacles extending forward to explore the way, and at night it also uses its tentacles to search for prey for food.

5. Licking habits

Centipedes frequently lick their antennae and legs with the dense hairs on the protrusions of the first maxilla and the base of the maxilla, the brush-like bristles on the back of the second maxilla, and the saliva from their mouths. They also lick their own nests to keep them clean.

6. Temperature Centipedes are temperature-changing animals, and all their activities are often related to temperature. The most suitable temperature for centipedes to grow and develop is 25℃～32℃. When the temperature is 11℃～15℃, centipedes will reduce their foraging, stop mating and lay eggs. When the temperature drops below 10℃, centipedes will stop all activities, drill into the loose soil (or nest soil), curl up and hibernate. However, when the temperature rises to 33℃～35℃, all its activities will be suspended due to the loss of water in the body. If the temperature rises above 36℃, the body will lose too much water, causing the body to dry up and die.

The above are the habits and living environment of centipedes.

How to eliminate:

Household centipede control:

1. Buy pyrethrin (may be sold in pharmacies), sprinkle some in places where centipedes often appear, and also sprinkle some at the entrance of the sewer, which can kill them;

2. Buy insecticide tablets and fumigate the place; sprinkle realgar wine into the sewer;

3. Keep the environment as dry as possible

4. Remove plants such as creepers outside the window

5. Sprinkle lime powder at doors, windows and other places where centipedes may crawl in, because centipedes like humid environments.

6. Fumigating the house with mugwort

7. There are two kinds of drugs that are effective against centipedes, realgar water or diluted solution of DDT. After spraying them on the floor and corners of the house, close the door for at least half a day. The effect is said to be good.

How to enter the family:

They may enter through some wall cracks. According to their characteristics, they will not take stairs or other routes with high traffic volume, and they like dry and humid places. You can check the humid places in your home, such as the floor drain in the bathroom, the drain pipe of the washing machine and other humid places, as well as the places where chores are piled up, which may also be places where they hide. Clean them more often and deal with them according to the above prevention methods so that they have nowhere to hide. If there are flowers and plants upstairs, there is a possibility that they will come down from upstairs. After all, there are grass, soil and water upstairs, which are suitable for their survival. You can put some dry powder insecticides on the roof of your home or in the corners of the house, but pay attention to the children at home and don't let them eat them by mistake. Remind them

Finally I hope you can solve the problem

Living habits. Under natural conditions, centipedes generally live on hillsides, fields, roadsides or weedy places, or on the edge of a well, in firewood piles and between bricks and tiles. They particularly like damp, old ground. The basic characteristics of their activities are that they hide during the day and come out at night. They stop eating when the temperature is below 10°C, and hibernate at -7°C.

1. Spread a circle of newspapers where you sleep, because when centipedes crawl over, the newspapers will rustle. 2. Don't make the room too humid, centipedes mostly like humid places. 3. Sprinkle realgar, centipedes are sensitive to the smell of realgar. 4. There is a herb called indigo plant, soak it in water (for more than 1 hour) before going to bed at night, and then apply it all over your body, centipedes will not dare to approach you, because you emit this disgusting smell on your body, which is not pungent to humans. 5. The simplest way is to just slap it to death!!!

1. Soak cotton with dichlorvos, take it out and put it in a small bowl, then knock off a burning honeycomb coal and put it on the cotton to burn. You can put it under the bed, next to the cabinet, etc. Open all cabinets and boxes, close the doors and windows, and it will take an hour! The best time is after 12 o'clock in the evening. <This method is the best, and it can kill spiders, mosquitoes, cockroaches, geckos, etc.> Method 2, take out sulfur and put it in a small bowl, then knock off a burning honeycomb coal and put it on the sulfur to burn, close the doors and windows, and it will take an hour! The best time is after 12 o'clock in the evening. Method 3, burn wormwood. Same as above. Use the method you have for the above methods. After ventilation, sprinkle realgar water, and it's done! This method is a killing type. All the insects present are dead, don't worry. Realgar water is realgar ground into water. Sprinkling realgar water will make the insects dare not come. You can just light the wormwood directly, but the effect is average.

Centipedes like to live in a humid environment!!!

You can spray some insecticide in every corner of your bathroom and kitchen!!!