Centipede Pest Control
Eliminate Centipedes from Your Home and Garden
If you have centipedes in your damp basement or storage closet, don't fear. They're perfectly harmless. In fact, centipedes help eat other household pests including spiders and other insects.
Centipedes -- often mistaken for long-legged spiders -- are about an inch in length, have long antennae and are typically a reddish brown color, although house centipedes are sometimes bluish gray. They gravitate toward moist, dark areas, such as basements, crawl spaces and storage spaces.
The best way to control centipede pests is to keep your home and yard as clean as possible. Remove old vegetation and organic matter such as wood piles or grass clippings from around the foundation of your home. You want to keep the area around your home dry and free from rocks, leaves, compose and other refuse.
Seal any cracks in your basement, foundation, and first-floor entrances, as well as around basement windows and other openings.
If you're still having problems after doing all of this, you can treat foundation outside your home with dust or an aerosol pest control spray designed for centipedes, sowbugs, pillbugs and millipedes. And if you live in and near a wooded area, you might also need to treat a strip of your yard that lies adjacent to the woods.
You can use targeted applications of centipede pest control spray inside the home, too, such as around windowsills, doorsills, casings and the junction of walls and floors. Ready-to-use household pest control formulas are available at hardware stores and lawn and garden centers.
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