Do house centipedes eat plants?

Your house centipede won't eat plants. Centipedes are carnivorous. I feed my house centipede flightless fruit flies that I bought at a reptile expo, little brown moths from my closet, and silverfish I found on the windowsill at work. You can proba... read more

Your house centipede won't eat plants. Centipedes are carnivorous. I feed my house centipede flightless fruit flies that I bought at a reptile expo, little brown moths from my closet, and silverfish I found on the windowsill at work. You can probably get the fruit flies online. When you say house centipede, I'm imagining a rather small animal, about one inch or so. read more

Being vegetarians, millipedes eat plant matter. Some feed on decomposing vegetation and fallen fruit while others will occasionally damage seedling plants by consuming stems and leaves. They eat all kinds of potatoes, flower bulbs, and tubers. They live in the garden in areas of moist mulch, compost, and lawn thatch. read more

Centipedes can also be a number of colors and have a single pair of legs per each body segment. Millipedes generally move much slower than centipedes and break down dead plant material in the garden. Centipedes are predators and will eat insects that do not belong in your garden. read more