for the past few days I've been waking up to the sound of a small animal in my bedroom, messing with plastic bags and such on the floor, but in a way that I had literally no idea what it was. It sounds about the size of a mouse, but it doesn't scurry in bursts like a mouse - it moves continuously. when it walks over plastic, it sounds like slowly deflating an air mattress into a bag of tissue paper.
now that I own the house and I have to pay to fix this stuff, it's extra disturbing; especially since I can't find any evidence of damage in the rest of the house. a squirrel already destroyed some of the soffit to get into the roof earlier this week - what new horrible thing is here now?
do house centipedes play dead? i found one in the trash at work and when i got it out it flopped onto it's back and wouldn't move, but after prodding it a little and flipping it over it took right off
they usually don’t, but it might have been weak and exhausted and just lay there. even a healthy house centipede can’t sprint forever and will sit down to rest when pursued, but usually they never lay on their backs