You can't just throw silverfish out there without mentioning their chief predator, the house centipede.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata

And fun fact about centipedes(and millipedes), lacking the ability to create a waxy layer on their chitin shell(as insects do) they are more dependent on having a moist environment to live near than insects.

The other day I was wondering if Borges had read Lichtenberg:

> “Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.” —GCL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede#:~:text=Despite%20th... (why an odd number?)

well insects have an odd number of pairs as well

centipedes, insects, and spiders pairwise have the arthropods as their common lineage, and spiders have 4 pairs?

EDIT: but what about palps? crustaceans also can have even pairs of walking legs, but odd numbers of leg-like structures...

Millipedes are also interesting because some of them produce cyanide as a defense measure. Wash your hands after handling.

I sometimes see a local species of black-and-yellow millipede, chunky individual several inches long, that have climbed up walls, tree trunks, or fence posts and died. They were victims of a parasitic fungus (Anthrophaga myriapodina) that takes control of them and forces this climbing so spores from the fungus can disperse more widely.

You might think this is Cordyceps, a fungus that does something similar in ants, but it's not closely related, not being in even the same taxonomic class. It's a case of convergent evolution.