>>350869centipedes are horrible. most you find in the US are pretty much harmless and do the good work of spiders as you said, but you get into the tropics all all bets are off. my dad said he shared a muddy mucky foxhole with a Vietnamese centipede one night during monsoon, and he was the only dry thing around so for like 10 hours the thing kept crawling around on him. Fuuuuuuuck thatshit.