What Kind Of Bug Is This and How Can I Get Rid Of It?

Question

The describtion of the bug:
Has a copper colored body and can be as little as maybe the plastic on the end of a shoestring or as big and wide as a eraser, you know the big rhombus ones. It has, seemingly, 100 legs and the legs color are a striped pattern of black and like a cream color. I only notice the pest in my home during the summer months and occasionally see them outside. Any ideas?

Answer 1

sounds like a house centipede.
Here is a pic for comparison:
http://www.richard-seaman.com/Wallpaper/Nature/Horrors/HouseCentipede.jpg
Info. on the house centipede:
http://www.uos.harvard.edu/ehs/pes_centi...
http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/iiin/housece.html

Answer 2

This sounds like a centipede. You shouldn't get rid of them. They run around inside and out, eating the nasty bugs that we don't want. Centipedes and spiders (yay spiders!!) keep us from being knee-deep in insects. Centipedes can be a little startling when you first see them, but if left alone, will not cause any harm.

Answer 3

i might wash all my outfits and sheets in bleach/colour secure bleach and warm warm warm WATER, Throw the mattress out. in case you cant have sufficient money to flow to aim and get a vinyl mattress conceal, in case you have carpets, shampoo them, seek for a sturdy purifier. additionally, in case you have a canines or cat examine them and dont enable them to sleep with you. examine for ticks,Lice, mattress bugs, Fleas(i think of that's this) that's the only situation i understand that jumps. sturdy success

Answer 4

From the description in the text you wrote it seems to me it is Scutigera coleoptrata and it is in the order Chilopoda

Answer 5

Sounds like a centipede, call an exterminator or get one of those bug bombs and set it off to get rid of them. Good luck

Answer 6

a thousand legger or a slug of some sort, just scoop it up in a dust pan and put it outside.