u/NewPrinciple1576

There’s a house centipede in my basement

I know centipedes are harmless to humans and kill bugs but I would rather have spiders or ants than centipedes and my family and I are creeped out no one wants a centipede crawling on them when their sleeping I’ve already tried the box and wet paper towel method and it’s been a couple of hours and still it hasn’t shown up we saw it like three times today right now it’s almost 6 am August 16th 2026 we last saw it about 3 hours ago my basement is pretty big it’s dirty and filled with junk so it’s hard to find the centipede we’ve gotten one a little over a year ago but it just left on its own after a couple of days this one we first saw 2 weeks ago and we’ve seen it twice today does anyone know how to lure it out so we can kill it

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u/NewPrinciple1576 — 4 days ago