Spring is different here.

[Hardbopjazz]

I am quietly sitting listening to some music when my 11 year old daughter lets out the loudest scream I have ever heard. I run into the next room and there on the wall is a big ass centipede It took sometime for me to catch this fast bastard. I did release it into my garden.

I am not joking when I say it was a big as my longest finger to my wrist.

Edited April 19, 2011 by Hardbopjazz

[Son-of-a-Weizen]

They're all over the place in these parts.....I see several each and every week. Good thing about 'em is they have a voracious appetite and like to chomp on crickets, spiders...and 11 yr olds hangin' around in your basement.

[marcello]

It weird Tom, that you post this.

For some reason we're killing a few centipedes in our house every day and other friends have seen the same thing in theirs.

[Matthew]

I would have a major freak-out if I ever saw one of those things within a mile of me, probably worse than an eleven year old at that. That thing is majorly creepy.

[Hardbopjazz]

If I shot him, I just make him angry, so instead I let it free. My wall would have been pretty messed up if I did kill it.

They are not native to the US. Resharching on line I found out these bug arrived in shipping crates about 15 years ago. Unlike the Asian Long Horn Beetle that are doing damage to the native trees, this incent just eats other bugs and is venomous but harless to humans.

[AllenLowe]

Maine has lots of insect life - that's why I carry one of these (as long as those damned Democrats don't ban them) -

Edited April 19, 2011 by AllenLowe

[jlhoots]

We have ugly centipedes out west here also.