centipede

Since replacing windows can cost enough arms and legs to make a human centipede, it’s worth looking into adding interior insulating layers to your existing windows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

The mamma centipede may have a face like a David Cronenberg nightmare, but she's a devoted parent, curling around the wriggly bits of multi-legged spaghetti she calls her offspring to protect them.

From Salon ● May 11, 2025

"I had never seen anything like it before. After asking my co-workers, we figured out it was a house centipede," she said.

From BBC ● May 10, 2025

And despite having an elaborate, curling centipede inked on his face and neck, he’s crestfallen that Bailey would let a friend cut off her locks before the big day.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2024

Now whenever trouble is coming, Tatica feels a glimmer of the old burning in the centipede trail on her belly.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

In certain groups of centipedes, Machado writes, "this apparently increases offspring survival, because without the mother the eggs and nymphs always die from fungal attack or unknown reasons."

From Salon ● May 11, 2025

"From what I've learned, house centipedes are harmless and actually beneficial because they prey on other household pests," she said.

From BBC ● May 10, 2025

Snakes make up most of the images, but human figures, centipedes, alligators, other animals, and geometric motifs also appear.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 3, 2024

In 2022, for example, CBP found live centipedes concealed inside earphone cases.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2024

The air had a strange smell to it, too—maybe the space behind the bookcase was full of dead centipedes and millipedes and pill bugs.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix