You really shouldn’t do that. They’re harmless to people, and if you’ve got many of them then that means you’ve got worse pest problems to worry about. Pests that the house centipedes are helping to keep under control.

House centipedes are predators. They’re only there because there’s food for them to eat — prey animals that they are hunting.

Now, what are their prey animals? Here’s some critters that house centipedes eat:

• Cockroaches
• Termites
• Bedbugs
• Silverfish
• Ants

You have house centipedes because you have these.

The centipedes are eating them.

Now, what was it you wanted to get rid of?

Borax tablets. Just hide them around on the floor. Don’t do this if you have loose pets that might eat them.

You could move from a house to a cabin, trailer, or cave. Then you only have to deal with cabin centipedes, trailer centipedes and cave centipedes. But the house centipedes will be a thing of the past.

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You don’t want them around? They hunt pests.

This has to be bait, right?