SaAyomikun:
Help me! I am scared. I Need Help Identifying this!

Friends, I woke up some minutes past 1:00 AM this midnight to ease myself, then, with the help of the faint light emanating from the next room, I noticed something crawling beside me on the bed. I flashed my touch and boom! Look what I found. I then picked up my broom smashed it.

Please, who knows what this is?
From its look, it looks harmful, is it truly harmful?
How can I prevent it?

It crawls very fast like a snake does.
PS: this is the second time I'd be killing such in my room, I just didn't take it seriously the first time.

Please, help me! I'm really scared. I can't even lay on that bed anymore. Friends, I woke up some minutes past 1:00 AM this midnight to ease myself, then, with the help of the faint light emanating from the next room, I noticed something crawling beside me on the bed. I flashed my touch and boom! Look what I found. Out of timidity, I picked up my broom smashed it a few times before I swept it outside.
Please, who knows what this is?
From its look, it looks harmful, is it truly harmful?
How can I prevent it?

PS: It crawls very fast like a snake does.

PS: this is the second time I'd be killing such in my room, I just didn't take it seriously the first time.

Please, help me! I'm really scared. I can't even lay on that bed anymore.

It's said that year that a bite from this turns a man to a woman and a woman to a man!
Mehn we feared it then like kilode!
However, thats some very dangerous insect.

Growing up,I heard if that thing bite you as a man u will turn to a woman. I dnt know if that is still obtainable

prettymaxy:
What kind of insecticide can one use instead of sniper cos of toddlers in the house

The sellers should know, actually. You can explain things to them when you go to buy. And I stay alone.

SaAyomikun:

Thanks so much for this sir.
First thing as the day breaks, I'm going to get a bottle of sniper to deal with these things.
Thanks again chief...

Sniper can kill u,, buy" read a dream " fleets

12345baba:
no drink am o

I sure won't. I'll stay alive to witness Arsenal win the Champions League; even after winning it.

This ur floor resemble cement or german floor..I'm sure the centipedes are coming from the edge of the room...it's probably still sand, so try to re -cement

HYMENAIOS:
Please make sure you use it for ONLY the purpose of controlling these centipedes. Don’t change your mind

LMAO! I won't change my mind.

i use to see this in my room years back, i did a google search and asked some questions about it harmful effect but found out it has no harmful effect though. probably your room wells are cool or wet or so. i actually resist them from my room after putting enough salt all corners of my room and since then, i have never see them no more.

SaAyomikun:


Honestly, it isn't, and it isn't stuffy. The only eyesore is the porous ceiling. The ceiling has holes: big and small.

LegendaryLover:


this is the kinda educative and well-informed comment u find on reddit.Com.
Big ups, man

Respect bro..

AerialMapper:
Yes they can sting with those two prongs on their tail but not really life-threatening to adults...children or people with allergic reactions may react differently.

Is your "bed" a mattress on the floor?

Truth be told, it is a mattress on the floor.

JVector:
You have a damp room. Fumigate, clean up and dry up your room

I'll do that. thanks.

lograr:
I like educative comments like this

Better than comments like '...you are suffering from inferiority complex... '.'tribalistic fool'. 'igbo amaka', 'Afonja'.... Nairaland get some silly pple sha. Even twitter too. Its a Nigeria problem. Too many frustrated pple out dere

talk2aikay:
Make no mistake about it, that thing is a scorpion.

It’s the long-tailed specie and it’s really fast and venomous. It feeds and lives on decaying wood. Got stung by one when I was younger and was forced to eat a bucketful of onions plus other stuff.

Anyways, this is your cue to fumigate your room inside-out. You’ve been particularly lucky to escape that stinger twice...don’t push your luck too far. Sniper is good but I’d suggest you find something even stronger...but watch it you don’t poison yourself instead.

Kill em all...happy hunting.

This is so informative. Thanks, my man.

Enskynelson:
Just fumigate your apartment. If you can't afford that, get DD Force and drop all over the house. Close all doors and windows for three hours. This hot weather will make it work better.

Thanks sir.

Jerrysonng:
your floor look dirty, please put that into consideration too

I will, thanks.

vezycash:

Bro. Children kill this stuff and forget about it the next minute.
I swear my kids must play for sand, bush unattended for hours.
If I show your post to one of my ss2 students, she'll laugh at you.

Mehn! No be my fault o. It looks so terrifying.

You welcome OP!

Enwhen:



Lolss... This centipede is has venom, but very weak one, unlike scorpion, snake... does not need drugs to treat.



Your bed is placed directly to the floor, and the floor is cool and your located in a swamping area, they survive under water condition...to prevent it , clean up everywhere, fumigate, AVOID WATER SPILLING TO THE FLOOR... back then in the north, that thing used to sting me in the farm almost everyday...it's painful , but within a short while the pains disappears.

Your guesses are so correct.
Thanks for the info.

SaAyomikun:

Thanks so much for this sir.
First thing as the day breaks, I'm going to get a bottle of sniper to deal with these things.
Thanks again chief...

while making use of the sniper don't drink some ooooo

Orpe7:
Get a fumigator and fumigate ur room. If ure based In Lagos and u need one holla at 0802 306 7163

I'd have loved to, but unfortunately I stay in Kano.

gassbee:
first of all take out everything from d room and sun dry it, check every item to ensure no centipede is hiding something, use 2 bottles to bombard ur mattress all angles, avoid keeping soaked n wet rag on the floor, room or bathroom, they like wet areas, ur room must be dry always.
After is advisable u fumigate ur house

Thanks for this, Chief...

See sweeweet meat and you are complaining

sofiscatedmoron:
Sniper can kill u,, buy" dream a day " fleets

Noted sir. I'll check it out. thanks again.

Truthbites:
This ur floor resemble cement or german floor..I'm sure the centipedes are coming from the edge of the room...it's probably still sand, so try to re -cement

Your guess is correct. Thank you for this.

lavenjcrown:
i use to see this in my room years back, i did a google search and asked some questions about it harmful effect but found out it has no harmful effect though. probably your room wells are cool or wet or so. i actually resist them from my room after putting enough salt all corners of my room and since then, i have never see them no more.

Wow! I never knew salt works. thanks chief.

That thing is poisonous ooo. If it touches your body, that spot of the body will swell and peal off like fire burns.

Get a sniper for N500 and all these will be history.

may either FACE me FACE you compound or your house is reside beside CANAL,lol.

This small thing mcheew!!!

Normal things bro, move on

oluwakayode25:
You welcome OP!

so informative. thanks for this sir.

oluwakayode25:
You welcome OP!

so informative. thanks for this sir.