Comments on: Centipede Bites: The Worst Hawaii has to Offer https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/centipede-bites-the-worst-hawaii-has-to-offer/ Traveling full-time in a financially sustainable way Wed, 19 Jun 2024 11:43:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Nora https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/centipede-bites-the-worst-hawaii-has-to-offer/#comment-1113937 Wed, 27 Sep 2023 18:36:09 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2007/11/centipede-bites-the-worst-hawaii-has-to-offer/#comment-1113937 In reply to Amber H.

Yikes, Amber – that sucks! Glad it wasn’t worse though – a bad centipede bite can take you out for a few days!

]]> By: Amber H https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/centipede-bites-the-worst-hawaii-has-to-offer/#comment-1113880 Sun, 24 Sep 2023 06:59:53 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2007/11/centipede-bites-the-worst-hawaii-has-to-offer/#comment-1113880 Visited Hawaii and on the first night I stepped on a centipede while shuffling to the bathroom in the dark. Pretty sure it was only able to do a warning bite before I kicked it across the room! It still swelled, stung, and burned for an hour or so. And was sore the next day. Can’t believe with the whole hotel room, I found the centipede.

]]> By: Nora https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/centipede-bites-the-worst-hawaii-has-to-offer/#comment-889820 Fri, 04 Jun 2021 16:27:47 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2007/11/centipede-bites-the-worst-hawaii-has-to-offer/#comment-889820 In reply to Joanne Howard.

Hi Joanne,
What a lucky strike that the bite wasn’t deep! I adore geckos too….I always miss them when I’m not in the tropics.

]]> By: Joanne Howard https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/centipede-bites-the-worst-hawaii-has-to-offer/#comment-889108 Wed, 02 Jun 2021 19:31:57 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2007/11/centipede-bites-the-worst-hawaii-has-to-offer/#comment-889108 I lived on Kauai for 15 yrs, only got bit once. The centipede had made it up the stairs and was under the welcome mat. I slipped off my slippahs and stepped on it barefoot. It bit me on my big toe / ball of foot where it couldn’t get a deep bite. I chased and squished it with a scrap of wood then scrubbed the bite vigorously with running water. Thankfully not much pain for me. Moved to OK in 2007 since the economy was going to take a dump and the cost of living is half that of Hawaii. Besides we left behind centipedes and huge cockroaches. Miss the geckos though.

]]> By: Nora https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/centipede-bites-the-worst-hawaii-has-to-offer/#comment-872432 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 17:36:56 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2007/11/centipede-bites-the-worst-hawaii-has-to-offer/#comment-872432 In reply to Terry.

Terry,
EEEEEEEEEKKKK! I’m with you. They’re fast, unpredictable, and horrifically ugly. Especially the big ones!
Years later, I was house-sitting in Grenada and after my FIRST night there, I awoke to refresh the dog’s water bowl and there was a foot-long centipede in it (thankfully dead). The memory is seared into my mind. Ha ha!

]]> By: Terry https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/centipede-bites-the-worst-hawaii-has-to-offer/#comment-872260 Fri, 16 Apr 2021 04:44:08 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2007/11/centipede-bites-the-worst-hawaii-has-to-offer/#comment-872260 We were only in Hawaii for a few days and a giant centipede came right in the living room of the house we were renting for the week. Thing ran right at me! I jumped and it changed direction and I almost landed on it with my bare feet! I’m not easily scared. I’m usually the one taking care of the spiders and such. But when a foot long centipede charged me, I jumped just like on TV. lol. We got it out with a broom, but I’d bet good money I wasn’t the only one in the house that checked their sheets that night before bed!

]]> By: Nora https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/centipede-bites-the-worst-hawaii-has-to-offer/#comment-867576 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:12:00 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2007/11/centipede-bites-the-worst-hawaii-has-to-offer/#comment-867576 In reply to Heng Yong Tuck.

I didn’t realize they live in the toilet! This is good to know.
Sleeping on the floor is killer. I did that in rural Thailand and narrowly escaped a nasty encounter with a scorpion. Luckily I had a bug net that tucked under the mattress to prevent creepy crawlies from joining me in my slumber.

]]> By: Heng Yong Tuck https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/centipede-bites-the-worst-hawaii-has-to-offer/#comment-867539 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 13:01:30 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2007/11/centipede-bites-the-worst-hawaii-has-to-offer/#comment-867539 I was in my teens and sleeping on a mattress on the floor. There was a sharp pain and I got up and saw a huge centipede crawling away quickly. I tried to hit it but it cleverly crawled where the floor met the wall. It escaped and the pain was really bad and my body felt very hot. I lay down and could not move for 2 hours. I learnt recently that this was paralysis due to the toxins. There was a big bite mark of 2 dots one cm apart. Now that I am living in a house again I kill the little centipedes in the toilet, the only damp place inside the house. There might be larger ones under stones or bricks in the garden.

]]> By: Nora https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/centipede-bites-the-worst-hawaii-has-to-offer/#comment-806948 Sat, 11 Jul 2020 16:00:15 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2007/11/centipede-bites-the-worst-hawaii-has-to-offer/#comment-806948 In reply to Raven.

Hi Raven,
You are totally right! Thanks for pointing this out. The picture at the top of the article (with the hand next to it) is a centipede (and not even as big as they get, either!).

]]> By: Raven https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/centipede-bites-the-worst-hawaii-has-to-offer/#comment-806869 Sat, 11 Jul 2020 05:26:39 +0000 https://www.theprofessionalhobo.com/2007/11/centipede-bites-the-worst-hawaii-has-to-offer/#comment-806869 Hi! Just wanted to let you know that the critter in the picture with the yellow background is a millipede not a centipede. Millipedes are sweet and don’t bite. Please do not be confused and kill them. Mahalo!

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