Generally, you get your garden variety cockroaches, ants, spiders, or bedbugs in your lesser-star hotels (or parents' shower, as my history has proven). I recognize those, especially the different species of roaches that populated a childhood on the Gulf Coast. So, as I lay in my hotel bed last week, looked up, and saw this, I could only ask "WTF?":
Seriously, what sort of creature is that?
For the record, I did not smush it. I flicked it off of the ceiling, and it ran away and hid before I could escort it out of the room. Thus far, I have seen no evidence that it hitched a ride home with me.
Thus far.
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This be a house centipede, I believe (though not a insect expert). If so, it is harmless to you and eats bedbugs (bonus!).
I'm with FA; looks like a centipede. I didn't know they ate bedbugs!!!! Yay!
Hi there - long time lurker, first time commenter. We have seen several of these in our new apartment - hilarity ensues as my spouse moans OMGOMGOMG as he runs for a paper towel to kill it. Quite startling creatures! Just read on wikipedia that they eat bedbugs, so I think probably the most favorable ecology to discover in your hotel room (and in my new apt)!
Ahh, thank you! I wouldn't have even known what to Google other than "bug."
That they eat bedbugs is a good thing on the one hand. On the other, what might have drawn it to my room? I suppose if a bug must be in my room, better that it is a bug that takes care of worse bugs.
Welcome Burab!
They like damp. They tend to turn up after heavy rains.
House centipedes were a problem in my apartment in Fellowship City. Yes, they eat other bugs. But they're also damn creepy, the way that every part of them seems to be wiggling at the same time. Brrrr...
Dame Eleanor Hull, that would explain its appearance, since there had been the sweet releif of a rainstorm that day.
Notorious PhD, they are creepy! I didn't want this one falling on me or crawling into my ear while I slept. At least they aren't slimy, too!
6:35 AM, August 04, 2011
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