Bug! 🐛 I’ve had this Shangri-La for over 6 months and I’v...
Bug! 🐛 I’ve had this Shangri-La for over 6 months and I’ve repotted. Today after bottom watering, I found this floating in the water! Centipede maybe? It was about an inch long! How did it survive the repot and all the other bottom waterings?!? I’m grossed out and now I’m paranoid there’s more in my other plants 😩 #PestControl #buggingout #WhatsThisBug #Pothos #PothosPack #ShangriLaPothos
4ft to light, indirect
5” pot with drainage
Last watered 1 week ago
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From the looks of it, that looks like a greenhouse millipede! They like moist organic rich environments, they like to eat decaying matter so if anything if you find them in your plants they’re actually beneficial! I find them in my house all the time after hurricanes and since they’re harmless I like to pick them up and drop them off outside. So I wouldn’t worry about it at all, the only issue they really cause is they like to hang out in your house sometimes and there can be a lot of them depending on the weather conditions. But they’re nice little fellows!
@Nature_freak9 Thanks for the knowledge!! I’ll try to remember they’re beneficial the next time I find one lol.
@SlinkyFivespot8 what a coincidence, I was just checking up on my fern just now and I found a greenhouse millipede crawling around! It’s the first greenhouse millipede of 2026 for me, they usually pop in every spring through summer in my house. So yeah the only thing you have to worry about is if they grow too much in population in your soil, but normally they should stay at healthy levels
