How to remove centipedes from soil?

[S. African grower]

So I have this tree outdoor that I want to bring indoor now that it started to flower, but I notice a centipede about 1cm long in the soil when I watered, I know there's more and I can't bring it indoor with the insects as my grow room is next to my bedroom and those buggers are known to crawl in ur ear when I sleep.. Could I cover the soil with plastic to suffocate them? Will I kill the plant.. Should I bust leave it outdoor

 

[vostok]

1
Remove any debris atop the soil of the houseplants, and limit the amount of water you're providing them. Allow the soil to at least dry to the touch before watering them again. This helps discourage centipedes from finding refuge in your houseplants.


2
Vacuum up centipedes if you see them, including on the soil of your houseplants. One quick and purposeful swoop over the top of the centipede gets rid of it with little disturbance to the soil.


3
Place sticky glue traps, such as those used to catch ants or roaches, next to the baseboards in each corner of your house that's adjacent to the outdoors. Place them next to the houseplants that centipedes frequent as well. Centipedes that touch the traps as they come out of their hiding places to look for food stick to them and die.


4
Control other pests in your home, such as spiders, roaches and flies, to reduce the centipedes' food source. Clean up food, remove clutter, and use traps, as necessary. Making your entire home unfavorable for centipedes helps get rid of them and evicts them from your houseplants as well.

 

[hotrodharley]

Crawling insects can be deterred with a liberal topping of diatomaceous earth. And doing the above.

 

[S. African grower]

1
Remove any debris atop the soil of the houseplants, and limit the amount of water you're providing them. Allow the soil to at least dry to the touch before watering them again. This helps discourage centipedes from finding refuge in your houseplants.


2
Vacuum up centipedes if you see them, including on the soil of your houseplants. One quick and purposeful swoop over the top of the centipede gets rid of it with little disturbance to the soil.


3
Place sticky glue traps, such as those used to catch ants or roaches, next to the baseboards in each corner of your house that's adjacent to the outdoors. Place them next to the houseplants that centipedes frequent as well. Centipedes that touch the traps as they come out of their hiding places to look for food stick to them and die.


4
Control other pests in your home, such as spiders, roaches and flies, to reduce the centipedes' food source. Clean up food, remove clutter, and use traps, as necessary. Making your entire home unfavorable for centipedes helps get rid of them and evicts them from your houseplants as well.

I don't have any insects in my grow room, only that 1 plant that is outdoor has been spotted with a centepede, I do let my outdoors dry out before watering,,should it be safe if I remove the top soil then bring it indoor?

 

[Kingrow1]

I believe centepedes dont damage plants, somthing to do with big mouth fangs and hunting live prey not vegetation

 

[xtsho]

I know a story about a guy passed out in the woods drunk during a camping trip, and a centipede accidentally getting put in his open mouth as he snored.

 

[bulla]

just saw a video some guy was doing a experiment with a plant and centipedes in the soil he never did a follow up lol I don't want that shit in my house i'd say do whatever you have to but keep them out .

 

[Kushash]

I believe centepedes dont damage plants, somthing to do with big mouth fangs and hunting live prey not vegetation

I had a bunch in one pot indoors and thought they were cool.
Hoping they dined on the fungus gnats and larvae.
They never hurt the plant or left the pot in my case.
Eventually when the plant was harvested and the soil was thrown in the recycle bin they probably died off.

 

[vostok]

I don't have any insects in my grow room, only that 1 plant that is outdoor has been spotted with a centepede, I do let my outdoors dry out before watering,,should it be safe if I remove the top soil then bring it indoor?

Most of the time Centipedes are predators so can be seen as beneficial to the grow space and plant

its the millipedes that you got your wires crossed with

unless you have the man eating variety

even then you should be fine

chill no biggy!

 

[Mr Blamo]

Those bugs give me the willies....

 

[Kingrow1]

Those bugs give me the willies....

Not just me that thinks they come out of some bad nightmare.

Lived abroad back a while, fucking centipedes everywhere, you get a cat but they only get bitten but when they run screaming from a room you know you got a centepede hence purpose of having a cat.

Fucking death to all centepedes if i could break my non harming of all life vow

 

[Mr Blamo]

I grab hair spray and freeze them in there tracks as they make such a mess when you squish them .
There such creepy looking bugs.
Great lake region seems to have lots of them...because of humidity in summers.
When I lived out west...never seen any.

 

[Kingrow1]

I grab hair spray and freeze them in there tracks as they make such a mess when you squish them .
There such creepy looking bugs.
Great lake region seems to have lots of them...because of humidity in summers.
When I lived out west...never seen any.

Dude i couldnt even go near them ever again, we have very tiny ones here in the Uk and i will scream like a girl and run like the Bolt if i even see one, still checking my bed at night ten yeqrs later after moving back to the uk.

My kryptonite in the garden for sure

 

[Mr Blamo]

Is worse when one crawls on you lol

 

[Roger A. Shrubber]

move the pot onto a hard surface like cement, remove the loose debris on top of the soil, not the soil itself, and let it dry out really well. a couple of days of that and most anything in your pots ought to move out looking for better conditions. then they should be safe to bring in without worrying about bringing in a lot of bugs with them. and centipedes won't crawl in your ears, unless it's coincidentally.....if all the shit happened that people say happens, we'd all be covered in spiders and cockroaches every time we went to sleep

 

[coreywebster]

Bugs come to the surface when it rains. Or when you water. Hoover them up.
It wouldn't bother me to be honest unless it was earwigs, we've all seen wrath of khan.