It's getting cold out so bugs are coming inside season.

[zanana1]

I just saw a centipede run across my carpet. I'm freaking out. I can't step on it because I think it could take me.

[marble falls]

1. Put a cloth over it and pick it up carefully and reaquaint it with a pile of wood or leaves or rocks.

[Skittles]

4. that's what I do, I evict them

I don't mind that they EXIST, they just cannot, er, LIVE with me

[marble falls]

5. I drive my wife nuts, I relocate all insects, even flies if I can. Because of global warming and the introduuction ...

... of some of the tropical diseases, mosquitos are 'eliminated on first zzzzzzzz.

I have no problem with spiders, my working theory is: if you got 'em you need them. However, my wife feels quite different, so I thin the herd every one in a while relocate them on the plants in on the deck. I feed the birds and I believe a lot of them get picked off by the house wrens. i rationalize it, Circle of Life and all of that.

[magicarpet]

2. The spiders come in down cellar,...

.... and build nests above the gas fired water heater up by the wood beams - where they know it is toasty warm for the winter.

[hlthe2b]

3. Awww, collect the centipede up in a cup or small box or something and take him outside. They are the good guys.

As to the other bugs coming inside, I take comfort in that my spiders will have something to eat. (Only a harmless few wolf spiders that eat the others; we have a pact. They stay in the basement, don't reproduce, and we can coexist)...

[XanaDUer2]

6. Ewww

[MissB]

7. Noooooo

Sorry, we mostly get sugar ants but that season seems to have passed.