Creepy crawly in the kitchen
By Lena Kovadlo
@lovebuglena (51494)
Staten Island, New York
April 9, 2026 11:34am CST
I came home last night, unloaded some groceries into the fridge, and went upstairs to change.
When I came back down to the kitchen I noticed a brown creepy crawly with many legs on the wall by the refrigerator.
I went downstairs to find some shoe to kill it with but thought it wasn’t a good idea as they are dirty and will dirty the wall.
My slippers aren’t exactly the cleanest either but decided to try to kill it with a slipper.
I came back to the kitchen and while I was debating how to approach it and smack the sucker it quickly started moving toward the fridge and away it went between the wall and the fridge.
I screamed when it started moving.
So far it hasn’t returned.
I don’t know where it is but I hope it doesn’t come back.
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7 responses
@Ineeddentures (30478)
•
9 Apr
Lol
You actually screamed!!
No need to kill it though
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@lovebuglena (51494)
• Staten Island, New York
9 Apr
Anything that gets inside my house will not live to see another day lol.
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@lovebuglena (51494)
• Staten Island, New York
9 Apr
@Ineeddentures Who said? I don’t want them in my house and they freak me out so they gotta go. No way am I gotta try to capture them and release them to the wild.
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@Ineeddentures (30478)
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9 Apr
@lovebuglena
Lena come on,
You can't go killing wee creepy crawlies just because they get inyour house
@DaddyEvil (173011)
• United States
9 Apr
Once in a while, we get a bug of one type or another in the house. Pretty will scream at me to come kill it. I grab the flyswatter off the wall hook and go after it. I kill it and drop it into the toilet and flush it while she's cleaning up the guts from the floor.
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@DaddyEvil (173011)
• United States
9 Apr
@lovebuglena I use a flyswatter for everything and then sweep up what I can and flush it.
@lovebuglena (51494)
• Staten Island, New York
9 Apr
@DaddyEvil I don’t have one at home.
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@lovebuglena (51494)
• Staten Island, New York
9 Apr
If it’s a bug of some kind or a spider etc I use a shoe or a slipper. For flies it’s a newspaper.
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@RasmaSandra (96780)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
9 Apr
Hopefully that creepy crawly is long gone but if there is space between the wall and fridge you could spritz in some Raid,
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@lovebuglena (51494)
• Staten Island, New York
9 Apr
Space is tiny. Can’t really reach there.
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@lovebuglena (51494)
• Staten Island, New York
9 Apr
Nope. I don’t think it’s a centipede.
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@JudyEv (378769)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Apr
Hopefully it will stay hidden. You could maybe spray insect killed behind the fridge but that might make it come out.
@lovebuglena (51494)
• Staten Island, New York
10 Apr
I cannot get behind the fridge. So far it hasn’t reappeared, and I hope it stays that way.
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@JudyEv (378769)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Apr
@lovebuglena I thought you could poke the can to direct the spray behind the fridge. Hopefully, you haven't seen it again.
@lovebuglena (51494)
• Staten Island, New York
10 Apr
@JudyEv The space between the fridge and the wall is tiny.
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@LindaOHio (219952)
• United States
10 Apr
Sounds like a centipede. Nasty little suckers.
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@lovebuglena (51494)
• Staten Island, New York
10 Apr
I don’t think it was that exactly. It hasn’t returned though and hope it stays that way.
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@lovebuglena (51494)
• Staten Island, New York
9 Apr
I saw it but don’t know what it’s called. And I didn’t take a pic. All I know is that it was brown and had many legs on both sides.
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@lovebuglena (51494)
• Staten Island, New York
9 Apr
@augusta123 it freaked me out when it started crawling.
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