There’s many of them, more and more, trying desperately to get into my apartment (some succeed). I’m not afraid of them at all. It just intrigues me where they are coming from.
Sorry, the photo was taken with zoom. Their size is like half the length of a match, ~1-2 mm thick.
they curl into a roll when touched, and could be surprisingly fast. Obviously they have nothing to feed on in my apartment so are dying…
Wiki says it’s a greenhouse (or hothouse) millipede.
My first thought was millipede too.
We call them “Tausendfüssler” here, I doubt anybody really counted those feet though or that is the correct number.
Any problem with dampness in your flat or do you have a rooftop flat and the roof is leaking?
Quite the opposite, it’s a new minergie building, ground floor. The air is rather dry all year round so this term I’m getting some humidity by keeping the windows open rather than running the humidifier.
I see why they are dying once they get into the apartment 
they turn into this tiny rolled dried out cocoons, obviously too dry for them
View of my entrance, you can see some of them crawling, it can be like 10 times more of them sometimes
Spray the perimeter of your balcony with Bifenthrin (a potent pyrethroid based insecticide). That’ll keep them away, and if you get a water resistant formulation it should be good for 3 months.
A more hippy solution could be cedar or peppermint oil, but when it comes to creepy crawlies I personally prefer the nuclear option.
They prefer dark and damp. Perhaps provide them that by the grill to keep them from coming in.
You could cover either doormat with a carton (and perhaps a weight) to check if that helps.
exactly, I wanted to know what’s the species to find out what keeps them away. I definitely prefer non-hazard solutions
They are quickly dying in my apartment, their dried out bodies laying on the floor along the walls. It’s a suicide mission for them, but that’s the nature, they just randomly explore in every direction
