Garden Centipede

How to get rid of centipede in the garden.

Garden centipede. Centipedes and millipedes play roles that benefit the garden. Centipede damage and bites. Centipedes can also be a number of colors and have a single pair of legs per each body segment.

Also known as thousand leggers they spend most of their lives hidden in soil and damp places. The centipede put up a fight but in the end i emerge the victor. Millipedes are common garden scavengers feeding on decaying leaves and plant litter.

Millipedes generally move much slower than centipedes and break down dead plant material in the garden. Comparable to the tiger of the rainforest or the killer whale of the sea this apex position holds great power in the stability of the community. Examination of centipede gut contents suggests that plant material is an unimportant part of their diets although centipedes have been observed to eat vegetable matter when starved during laboratory experiments.

In the soil food web the centipede is the top predator and the largest terrestrial invertebrate. Centipedes are predators and will eat insects that do not belong in your garden. When their numbers build millipedes may feed on living plants too.

Newly sprouted seedlings and ground hugging fruits such as strawberries are targets. Although their name means hundred legs centipedes don t really have that many limbs. The garden centipede lithobius forficatus is a slender arthropod that resembles a worm.

Jeff the nature guy finds a garden centipede and talks about the cool bug and how to tell it apart from a millipede. A recommended dust for attic areas would be d fense dust with a hand duster or garden dusters. A good way to keep centipede out of our homes is by creating an environment from outdoors which will keep them out of our gardens once we keep them out of our gardens and landscapes then there is a good chance they won t enter our homes.