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2inch brown centipede with black spots (House centipede)

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House centipede
by: Moni

Jessica
As Miriam said your critter is a house centipede. Centipedes have one pair of legs per body segment...as opposed to 2 pair of legs per body segment that a millipede has... or 4 pair of legs like the spider class and 3 pair of legs like the insect class.
Centipedes seen indoors are found in damp areas such as bathrooms, cellars, and crawl spaces. It will venture beyond these areas and is often seen quickly scurrying across floors or climbing a wall. These relatives of insects are predatory on other arthropods, including cockroach nymphs, flies, moths, bedbugs, crickets, silverfish, earwigs, and small spiders. So, they eat many things you'd probably rather not have in your home.They are beneficial, not a problem other than a nuisance.


Centipede
by: Miriam

This looks like a type of house centipede (Scutigera). They like to live in the dark places of your house like the basement or crevices, and only an occasional one will misdirect itself into the bathroom-perhaps why you see them at night. They eat tiny insects and can bite, but are not considered to be dangerous to people. It is recommended to keep areas around pipes as dry as possible, and not to worry because they don't come up through pipes.

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