House centipedes originally hailed from the Mediterranean region but hopped into people's baggage long ago. They're good travelers and now occur throughout much of the world, although almost ...

Desert centipedes (scolopendromorpha) are large. ... The house centipede (scutigeromorpha) is represented by a single species. It has 15 pairs of very long legs and is about 2 inches long.

It was something called a house centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata), a rather common centipede, originally from the Mediterranean, that has spread all over the world and generally lives in houses.

Centipedes naturally occur outside, and you often invite them to comfortably live right outside your door: ground cover (pachysandra, etc.), mulch, leaf accumulation, stones, wood debris, etc.

The centipedes are back. They are not back in my bathtub, but today they return to this space, where on Wednesday I told the tale of the house centipede that lived for a while in my tub because I ...

KYLE, Texas - "I walk in there and I just freeze. My first thought was like ‘That’s got to be a toy’." That's what Victor Glaze says happened the moment he stepped into his daughter's room ...

Another user backed him up saying that large centipedes have an “average a speed of 1.3 feet (0.4 m) ... “Now, if you have a TON of house centipedes and they are often sighted..

What’s worse, in some instances they can grow to impressively large sizes. They’re called house centipedes. As you can see, they have a lot of legs and can move very fast.