They can cause flour to turn gray, mold, and become smelly and can change its overall taste. They are reddish-brown and are very small, measuring only 3.5 mm in length. Its compactness gives them the advantage to invade even sealed food containers. These brownish elongated pests have one pair of legs per body segment. Legs can number between 10 and 100.
Centipedes can measure from one to six inches in length.
Centipedes are found throughout the United States, usually outdoors in dark damp areas. Yet, house centipedes, a yellow-gray species, dwell indoors in moist areas such as cellars, bathrooms and damp closets. The German cockroach can be found in kitchens and bathrooms of homes and apartments, grocery stores, food processing plants, restaurants and other structures around the world. Where there's a water source, there's probably a German cockroach near by. They are dark brown in color with two dark longitudinal streaks on the pronotrum.