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daveathome_16

not sure if this should go in this forum but ill give it a go anyway.........

SILVERFISH???

anyone know what im talking about? well if you do , i want to find a low cost and effective way to get rid of them out of my bedroom

there all over the place in the night time

if anyone has any info it'd be great
thanks

Capt'n Midnight

they're cute and they haven't evolved to insects yet.

considering the amount of skin humans shed as dust I'd rather have them then lots of nastier thing. - and you don't see then during the day.

Rancid

What harm are they doing?

Try leaving your curtains open at night and by the time you wake in the morning they'll all be in hiding again.

If you *really* hate them and want to get rid of them, increase your spider population!

You'll find that these guys are both low cost and effective and will keep your silverfish numbers in check! Honest!

Alun

Rancid wrote:

What harm are they doing?

They eat paper that's what! If they get in amongst your books you'll find lots of holes in the pages before very long, believe me! And they have a habit of following you when you move house, again from personal experience

Other than that they're fascinating creatures ... very old, and relatively low on the evolution scale, a bit like really tiny trilobites

daveathome_16

they seem to be gone from my room lately , havnt seen many with a while now

found one in my bed a couple of times tho

is it the warm weather that brings em out r are they around all year round


and also yeah, we were infested with them in our last house

tk123

I thought you just got them if the place was damp...?

Alun

tk123 wrote:

I thought you just got them if the place was damp...?

Dark, damp and warm seems to be their favourite combination.

Rancid

Agreed!
Dark, damp and just not too cold!

Though...I *never* heard of them climbing into bed before!

Mine are running around the downstairs toilet floor in the mornings... it's not damp but they seem to come in under the skirting boards probably to eat the toilet paper.

They *are* fascinating... I never kill them, I could never think of a good reason to, to be honest.

daveathome_16

yeah, found one under my pillow....started jumping around..kinda in circles

i get the black ones and the silver ones

tk123

UNDER YOUR PILLOW!??!!?OMG - i'd freak out...anyhoo my cat lifts the edge of the carpet up with his claw and tries to catch them!!

Alun

Another annoying thing with these pesky little critters is that they move house with you when you move! It was about 5 houses ago that we first got them, in Germany, and they moved with us to Holland and survived two moves there before we finally lost them! Luckily they haven't surfaced here in Ireland yet

tk123

SHHHHHHHHUSSSSSSH!!! ALUN!!! You'll get done for importing livestock or something!!!