Lately we have had a severe millipede invasion at our house. I’m not talking about a few annoying ones, I’m talking about M scraping 100 millipedes a day off the wall outside the front door. They’ve come inside as well, with them all over our floors. Ugh. You take a few absent-minded steps, then… crunch.
Until recently, I’d never seen millipede poo, or seen millipedes have sex. But now I’ve seen so much of it, I’m thoroughly grossed out. Not so much by the poo as by the sex. I’m certainly no prude, and I never thought that seeing millipedes mating would have any sort of effect on me, but watching these little black worms writhing all over each other, and so many of them doing it at once, I mean geez! Horny little bastards.
And the other day I was watching a millipede edging slowly towards another one and I thought, “I know what you’re doing there, buddy” and watched. Yep, before long he’d crawled on top of the other one and they were fornicating, and right in front of my very eyes, no less! Have some decency! I guess I’m no better, being the millipede voyeur that I am. Until I decided that enough was enough, and broke up the party. Heh.
April 23rd, 2006 at 12:04 am | [ Quote ]
Stop complaining! It’s free porn!
(note that I didn’t say ‘good porn’ or ‘nice porn’
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April 23rd, 2006 at 2:11 am | [ Quote ]
Argh, whatever you do don’t crush them beneath your feet lol. They have a nasty habit of leaving behind an awful odor. You could try spraying cyfluthrin, proxopur or resmethrin outside around your door etc.. that’ll stop them coming in. As for the free sex show.. I wonder what they wrap their hundreds of legs around lol
April 23rd, 2006 at 2:54 am | [ Quote ]
Well, winter is coming where you are. They probably want to get in where it’s warmer, though the mating surprises me since I thought they would do that in the spring?
April 23rd, 2006 at 4:04 pm | [ Quote ]
You mean there is a time of year when they don’t invade your home?!
Lucky you.
We have them on curtains, ceilings, inside light-fittings (makes for interesting splashes of light across the room!), etc etc.
Our four cats are often seen walking around them. Even they are sick of them. I suspect the millipedes have made for interesting cat-toys - but have since become yet another obstacle for the cats to avoid.
Until they rise up and take over the world, they are just a nuisance. So it’s not all bad.
April 23rd, 2006 at 6:23 pm | [ Quote ]
Andy: Just as well you added that disclaimer, or I might be worried…
Mandy: Oh, it was awful - when M was scraping them off the wall, he put them in a container, and they were all wriggling over each other like worms. Then M said that they smelt weird, and held out the container for me, saying, “Smell!” Ummm… no thanks.
Fash: I have no knowledge of the mating habits of millipedes! Maybe there is some reason they’re doing it now, or maybe people who thought that humans and dolphins were the only species to have sex for fun were wrong.
Stephen: No, it’s never been this bad before. I don’t think I could take it if it were constant! My cats are still slightly interested, but I think it’s wearing off.
April 25th, 2006 at 1:19 am | [ Quote ]
Oh grossssss!!!!! Just that word “millipede” sends shivers down my spine. So it’s millipede mating season in Australia… Note to self: do not visit Australia in late April…
April 25th, 2006 at 7:16 pm | [ Quote ]
Steph: I think you’ll be fine, just don’t come to my house in late April