Here the milipedes are rumored to have some of the most painful bites of any of the poisonous creatures. I lightly stepped on it, not wanting guts to spill across the floor. It wouldn't die. I squished it again, but apparently the desert milipedes are not easily extinguished. Jenna decided that if she painted it purple it would look less intimidating. I am not sure of it looking less intimidating, but it was mad! Good thing some of it's cavities and legs were squished so it was very slow in pursuing us.I am not sure why almost every scary creature happens crawls out of dark corners when Jenna and I are together...We follow the same pattern: Shrieking, hashing out a plan of action, implementing the plan (at times that means running for a boy) and then laughing as we talk about the need to scrape it off the ground.
Maybe we need to invest in our own personal cans of Raid?
2 comments:
I am a big, big fan of Raid. It is amazing! :) I had one of those centipede things (though after it was long dead I counted the legs and there were only about 45, what's with that??) in the casita about a week ago that was about 5" long. Yuck! Thanks to my can of Raid it didn't have too much of a chance..just left me to figure out how to pick it up to throw it away... guacala!
p.s. I like the purple effect. :)
We had a dead one too in our kitchen. Bill sprayed a few days before. They do have a mean looking stinger on the tail.
Ours never turned purple though?!!
Love,
B&J
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