Mommy... how do house centipedes grow up? How do they make babies?
This was a continuing query over a couple of days.
So we looked up house centipedes and learned they moult and get more legs with each moult. They live up to six years and takes about 2 years to mature.
Girl centipedes are bigger. Boy centipedes have a thicker tail.
The boy centipede puts sperm on the ground which the girl centipede uses to fertilize her eggs but they don't do this until after they touch antennae with each other.
They are GOOD bugs to have around (as much as they freak me out) because they kill spiders, bedbugs, termites, cockroaches, silverfish and other household pests.
Souces:
ehow and wiki and animal corner.
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