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- bicyclethief, on 04/14/2008, -0/+41Found a pic of the village fighting back: http://tinyurl.com/69wmde
- krewl, on 04/14/2008, -0/+35All you need is a trackball.
- redfox2600, on 04/14/2008, -0/+34You could always turn off all the lights except for one house and rig the place to explode or something.
- Fractl, on 04/14/2008, -0/+30Does that solution ever end well?
- greenlight2001, on 04/14/2008, -1/+17Picture of it: http://tinyurl.com/6x52c7
- Spamiclese, on 04/14/2008, -0/+14"Maude! MAUDE! The whole neighborhood's lights are out except ours. Lets go outside and see what the trou...OH MY GOD."
- Langford, on 04/14/2008, -0/+14On the bright side, it's not centipedes. Millipedes are leathery and mostly harmless.
- codered1322, on 04/14/2008, -0/+12Are you ten?
- Whackly, on 04/14/2008, -0/+12I know an old lady who swallowed a fly....
- Langford, on 04/14/2008, -0/+11Where I live we get occasional swarms of tarantulas. Their natural enemies are automobiles. Poor little critters try to cross the highway, but even with all those eyes, not one of them looks both ways before crossing. Nothing cute about it, but for a while the fire ants eat really well.
- phronko, on 04/14/2008, -1/+12This is the scariest thing I've ever read.
- Hegemony, on 04/14/2008, -0/+11Wikipedia tells me that one of the European black millipede's natural predators is the hedgehog. They should just get a bunch of those. I mean, what's cuter that giant herds of hedgehogs running around keeping your town free of millipedes?
- Nintendesert, on 04/14/2008, -0/+10The natural predator of the millipede is fire.
- HoldenDapen0r, on 04/14/2008, -1/+11What What?
- Langford, on 04/14/2008, -0/+10That only works on centipedes! Your trackball solution has doomed us all!
/needless panic - teddyrux, on 04/14/2008, -0/+9What a strange strange article that was.
- Pake, on 04/14/2008, -0/+9Someone should grab a bunch of lanterns of have some fun with them.
- MississippiLife, on 04/14/2008, -5/+12Time to find a natural predator of the millipede and try some organic means of treating this swarm.
- macinit1138, on 04/14/2008, -2/+9Time to resurrect William Wallace to fight off the invaders once again!
- vpshockwave, on 04/14/2008, -0/+7Yeah, that would be better. Giant mutant millipedes.
- DeathJux, on 04/14/2008, -0/+7Yeah, it's brilliant, once winter comes the apes simply freeze to death.
- Nintendesert, on 04/14/2008, -0/+7The downside of course being when people throw them.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080407/ap_on_fe_st/od ... - frsrblch, on 04/14/2008, -0/+7"Having worked at a place that had this problem in Australia, I know what it can be like! The little ( 2..3 cm) black monsters are definitely attracted to light.
A workmate found a solution ... He built a very simple millipede electric fence. Two wires (about 1cm apart), an old relay, a battery and a capacitor. The relay and capacitor are wired up to operate about once a second.
When the current to the relay is stopped, the is a very brief "high voltage" spike generated. (Not lethal to humans ... although you WILL feel it!) The relay coil is connected to the two (bare) wires.
This was very effective. It actually kills the centipedes. As a bonus, they seem to "jerk" back from the little electric fence, and die without shorting the two wires. All that remains is to clean up the thousands of dead critters each day. (Better than having the little buggers in the house/office/factory ...)
The thing draws so little power from the battery that it will run for 6 months or more.
Harry, Melbourne , Australia"
From the article's comments. - mecharabbit, on 04/14/2008, -0/+7Agreed. I solved this problem repeatedly on my Atari 2600 back in the day.
- theysayjump, on 04/14/2008, -0/+6Ten and a half!
- jp12380, on 04/14/2008, -0/+5What is worse, getting invaded by them or turning off the lights and letting your imagination have it's way with you?
- TobiasParker, on 04/14/2008, -2/+7Pics of the village:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25647177@N07/24125702 ... - AWBoy666, on 04/14/2008, -0/+5Where are some pictures/video of this?!
- jjcyber, on 04/14/2008, -1/+6I for one welcome our new Millipede overlords.
- wolferz, on 04/14/2008, -0/+4Centipedes... more likely the house centipede. The house centipede would be happy in an environment such as in or near a home and are predators exclusively. They typically hunt and feed on house hold pests such as spiders, roaches, (yes) millipedes, and even other centipedes.
There are drawbacks though. They are poisonous (in the way that a bee is poisonous). They wouldn't kill you, even in large numbers (they would be too busy trying to kill and eat each other), but the sting and bite is comparable in pain to a bee sting. The house centipede does not normally have the strength to sting a human but it can happen. They also might give a few old ladies a start... due to their unusual appearance and speed.
Since they are exclusively predatory they would only be as numerous as the local population of small insects could support. As the millipedes come in every year the centipede population would explode and kill most of the millipedes off followed by almost all of the other small insect population. With the dwindling supply of food they would turn on each other and the centipede population would declining again. They also multiply quite rapidly, thus the extraordinary number of millipedes would not be a difficult issue to over come. The sole issue is in explaining to home owners the dos and don'ts of their local neighborhood guard bugs. - greenlight2001, on 04/14/2008, -0/+4It's an inch long dude, chill out.
- ramenite, on 04/14/2008, -0/+3Millipedes? In MY village? It's more likely than you think!
- forgeflow, on 04/14/2008, -0/+3whats wrong with a trench around your house, filled with flaming gasoline?
- 2NYC3, on 04/14/2008, -1/+4holy *****!
- azzy, on 04/14/2008, -0/+3holy *****. that's nasty!
- DeadFox1, on 04/14/2008, -1/+4WIN!
- loquax, on 04/14/2008, -0/+3nuke it from space, only way to be sure
- Langford, on 04/14/2008, -0/+3And for anyone who wants a reminder, this is what a centipede looks like:
http://langford.deviantart.com/art/Centipede-64266 ...
Not to be confused with:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede_%28arcade_g ... - legoalert33, on 04/14/2008, -0/+3DDT
- JulyZerg, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2Wow... pretty drastic response.
I'd hate to have my house invaded, though. - ebcreasoner, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2That's a scary scene indeed!
- JonTheGoose, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2Millipede pot pie?
- blackjack75, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2Not to ruin the party but it didn't work the first time.
- h0ser, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2Imagine if you're the one house that didn't get the message. Look outside and realize your the only person with the lights on, then a swarm of millipedes crashes through your wall and eats all you breadcrumbs.
- danio, on 04/14/2008, -2/+4thats what she said
- TheBigBad, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Nice one.
- Langford, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2I'd say more like really long and heavy pill bug. Worms seems like too slimy for a comparison, because millipedes are armored.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millipede - lennybird, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2I petted one once at a science museum... Who gives a ***** about millipedes, I worry about black widows and scorpions.
- amoo3, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2For the Overmind!
- retrolab, on 04/14/2008, -0/+2They mostly come out at night, mostly
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