The Value of Pest Control

[tomdfc]

We are in Sansai and close to wooded areas, which is one of the reasons we give the property a regular pest control spray, termites being the other. I would rather there was another preventative option which would work but when you see what you get such considerations don't seem to matter so much.

I think this is a vietnamese centipede (dakab, in Thai?) and I understand that the bite may not kill you but that for some days you would wish you were dead. (As per a poster here a few years back.)

[green job]

Four years ago I woke up one morning with a swollen hand,on the lower part of the palm. By lunch time i had lost all feeling in my hand and could not move my wrist.

We went to the BCare hospital,the DR said centipede sting. He gave me an injection,and I had to lay down at the hospital for the rest of the day.

That night we found the critter in our bed,it was dead. It was about 10 cm long. Apparently the legs can also sting.

[kilt]

I stepped on a centipede with my bare foot several years ago - at night, around a campfire.

At first I thought I stepped on a hot coal... but soon it felt like someone took a red hot blade and stuck it in me and was twisting it into the bone...

Excruciating pain! My entire leg felt like it was asleep for 2 days. I couldn't walk or touch anything with it.

I hate those damn things

[masuk]

This is one creepy crawly I dislike. Snakes I know, just want to get away.

Last year I found one about 7 ye olde inches (18cm) long under a pot plant.

Sadly I felt it best to do away with the beast. We even had a smallish cobra in the front garden which got the same treatment at my landlady's insistence.

[dru2]

They are very nasty and I always kill them.

In times past you could buy takab liquor from the Chinese residents of Doi Mae Salong in Chiang Rai. The local Akha would catch them and sell them to the Yunnanese, who would then put them, tail first (and with great care) into a bottle of lao khao white liquor. You could see jets of venom being pumped from the sting into the liquor, then the beast died. Some were a good 18 to 20 cm long. I never felt inclined to taste the product, but the locals (predictably) swear it is good for aches pains and, of course, that old favourite, male sexual potency.

I don't think takab liquor is openly available any more. Last time I was in Mae Salong I was told that the Thai authorities had forbidden it as a hazard to health.

The Khmers do the same thing with tarantulas at Skuon, north-east of Phnom Penh. But not for me thank you.

[lowelkasey]

The images shown above notifies that there is a centipede sting. Centipede sting are dangerous and will bite. They are usually in the soil, eating mud. Be careful when you step on them because it bites with a tail. Consult a great pest control expert who will provide you solution on how to prevent and control these creatures.

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