Are centipedes indoors poisonous? What to do if you find one

Every summer, large numbers of centipedes appear on hillsides and in the grass, looking quite frightening, and sometimes you get bitten if you are not paying attention, so are centipedes indoors poisonous?

1. Are centipedes indoors poisonous?

Centipedes indoors are poisonous. The venom is in the legs on the head, and after being bitten there is obvious pain, but it will not cause death. However, you need to use a suction device or a cupping jar to draw out the venom, and choose potassium permanganate solution or limewater to rinse the wound.

2. How do you eradicate centipedes in the home?

1. Go to a pharmacy and buy pyrethrin, then according to the dosage and method of use, sprinkle it in places where centipedes frequently appear; you can also sprinkle some at the drain entrance, and then the centipedes can be completely eradicated. After a few days you will see centipedes that have been poisoned to death, and you only need to pick them up with a tool and throw them away.

2. Buy some insecticide tablets and place them where there are centipedes, then seal the space, and the centipedes will be fumigated to death, completely eradicating them.

3. Centipedes generally crawl in from the drain, so you need to buy some realgar and add alcohol, then sprinkle it into the drain, and this can completely eradicate centipedes and make them never dare to appear again.

4. Keep a rooster in the home. The natural enemy of the centipede is the rooster, and as soon as a rooster sees a centipede it likes to catch and eat it, so if there are centipedes in the home you can keep a rooster in the house, so that the centipedes never dare to appear again and are completely eradicated.

5. Buy a bottle of dichlorvos and dilute it with realgar water into a solution, spray it on the floor and in the corners of the house, then close the door for half a day; the effect is said to be good, but dichlorvos is highly toxic, so it must be used with caution.

In addition, centipedes like to come out at night and like to stay in dark, warm, rain-sheltered places with air circulation; during the day they mostly hide in cracks in bricks and stones, along wall bases, and in dark corners with piles of leaves, weeds and rotting wood, and at night they come out to move around and look for food. If the bed environment is suitable for centipedes to live, it may cause centipedes to crawl onto the bed, so pay attention before going to sleep at night.