• Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    Aww! Praying mantises are totally harmless (to humans) and eat far more annoying bugs. I give the same pass to most spiders (for eating flies and mosquitoes), mud daubers (ironically for eating spiders), and house centipedes (for eating cockroach eggs).

    Flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches, and bitey centipedes can fuck off and die though.

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        4 days ago

        Yeah, our only remaining cat is too old to chase anything anymore, but he definitely killed a few centipedes and cockroaches in his time. Good and bad.