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| Silverfish do not hurt your health, are just unpleasant and destructive to your property |
Silverfish do not hurt your health, are just unpleasant and destructive to your property
Silverfish are not really a threat to health, so who cares if you have them at home?
Let me give you a couple of reasons you do not want these insects in your world.
They live in most kitchens any building, occupied or not, and the favor and bathrooms, where the atmosphere is warm and humid.
- The silverfish eat materials that contain high levels of starch. This includes dextrin, which is located in the glue, paper, images, hair, sugar and cereals.
- Silverfish are fast and hard to catch.
- Are difficult to control, and to get rid of.
- I am a native of the northern continent, and found all over the world.
- Sometimes you will find them in your bed.
- Silverfish are unpleasant creatures.
- Live an average of two years, and sometimes up to three years.
- The female lays one-to-four eggs per day.
Since they eat dextrin will show up in your cereal at times, but that does not really threaten the health as well as your possessions. A large population can destroy your library eat the glue that binds the books together, and when the glue is gone begin on the card.
Silverfish hide during the day, mostly within walls or behind furniture and household appliances where it is dark. They are most active at night.
As the female lays her eggs every so many months, the population grows rapidly if left untreated. The silverfish is difficult to control because of rapid population growth, the rate of insects, and the fact that pesticides only kill the adults. When the nest is inside walls in the young hatching care is an even more difficult task due to the difficulty in obtaining the chemicals in the correct positions.
These bugs do not normally bother you, unless you are moving in your bedroom and crawl through you as you lie in bed at night, but they are ugly bugs. Guests may question your ability to clean when they see these creatures roam around your walls.
Since silverfish prefer (and require) wetlands for survival, be sure to eliminate any leaks and other sources of moisture.
Search pheromone traps designed to capture silverfish. These are toxic so be sure to put them out of reach of children and pets. These traps still will not affect the eggs, but for catching insects live is to reduce the number of females laying eggs.
The best treatment I know of is wipe the nesting area with chemical powders.
Start with a spray every couple of days to kill all the eggs a week or more old. Eggs take 2-3 weeks to hatch, so some of the eggs there are up to three weeks. Extend the spray schedule out to once a week for two times, then spray a month later. Your problem should disappear. If not, start the process of dusting again, and continue this process until you see silverfish no more.
Find the area in which the activity is more silverfish. Usually is close to a wall, and the nest is more likely that the inner wall. You want to spray the powder inside the wall in such a way that it creates a cloud of powder in the cavity of the walls. Just download a lot of dust on the floor gets only the bugs that actually crawl through the pile, getting dust on their feet as they walk through. Spreading a cloud in the wall puts the chemical in the air, and inhale as they breathe.
Persistence is the key to the control of these bugs, as in many of our successes in life.
If you want to know if any silverfish have been crawling around your dishes or cutlery at night while you sleep, set up a silverfish trap.
Please refer yourself to our main page to get your hands on a complete guide on silverfish insects and how to get rid of silverfish permanently
