Warning, protect your star wars against Silverfish

[Robstyley]

I have never had a problem with this in 16 years. Never seen any in my cabinet. I've seen them in my house but not near my collection.

 

[TheJabbaWookie]

What a nightmare. We had a clothes moth infestation a few years ago and they destroyed our carpets including in the Star Wars room. Luckily they didn't destroy any comics etc but they reproduce a lot quicker than silverfish and it took 3-4 complete household cleans with professional cleaning **** to get rid of them ( approx 1 year in total). All reports online suggest it's a lot easier to get on top of a silverfish infestation. Good luck

 

[Fawns61]

Hi, @Pomse2001 - hopefully you are on top of it now and almost done with your mammoth task!

 

[Pomse2001]

I have never had a problem with this in 16 years. Never seen any in my cabinet. I've seen them in my house but not near my collection.

I am happy to read you have not had any problems yet with them

 

[Pomse2001]

What a nightmare. We had a clothes moth infestation a few years ago and they destroyed our carpets including in the Star Wars room. Luckily they didn't destroy any comics etc but they reproduce a lot quicker than silverfish and it took 3-4 complete household cleans with professional cleaning **** to get rid of them ( approx 1 year in total). All reports online suggest it's a lot easier to get on top of a silverfish infestation. Good luck

thanks mate and sorry to hear about the moth infestation you had. I hope they will not come back

 

[Pomse2001]

Hi, @Pomse2001 - hopefully you are on top of it now and almost done with your mammoth task!

Thanks mate, I am not 100% done yet. But I would have been done sunday if it had not been because I had my little nephew all sunday. I hope to be done later this week and I have not seen any more silverfish. My robot vacuum cleaner now clean 1 time every day I hope that will also help on the problem

 

[Fawns61]

Hi, @Pomse2001 glad that you got some time off to spend with your Nephew - much more important and I'm sure the respite will have done you a world of good, too.
Does the robot vacuum cleaner get right into the edges and corners, which is where any creepies tend to hide?
Hopefully you are on top of the main problem now and will be checking regularly to make sure they stay away, especially if you spray essential oils regularly

 

[Pomse2001]

Hi, @Pomse2001 glad that you got some time off to spend with your Nephew - much more important and I'm sure the respite will have done you a world of good, too.
Does the robot vacuum cleaner get right into the edges and corners, which is where any creepies tend to hide?
Hopefully you are on top of the main problem now and will be checking regularly to make sure they stay away, especially if you spray essential oils regularly

Thanks mate no it does not take a few cm of the corners. There I use my cordless vacuum cleaner. I vacuum once evry day now and I am surprised how much dust it can find every day

I checked a closet today in the living room, I had not had time to check it before today. I got everything out of it and found 2 big dark silverfish in it I have all my cardbacks in that closet and all my amiga disc. I could not see any damage The closet is very close to where I placed all the bags with comics about 1 month ago that was infected with this little monsters and they escaped the bags. So I think this monsters could have come from this bags. I moved the closet out and found 2 more dark silverfish under the closet. So after I had not found any for a few weeks then I found 4 today I still need to check a few more places and things before I am done so I will also be busy next week this takes much longer than I first thought it would. After I have placed the kitchen wash stopper in the wash every afternoon before I go to bed then Ihave not any normal silver fish in the wash I guess maybe it keeps them out

 

[Pomse2001]

I am now done with the cleaning after the silverfish attack, no more damage. I hope I got them all but I need to check some of the places I found them the last time again.

 

[Pomse2001]

Saturday I made a check in the bedroom and checked some of the places where I found silverfish weeks ago. I found a very little one in my amiga 1200 box so I had missed one. I will check every week some areas.

 

[Pomse2001]

Damn I am still finding silverfish, Today I saw one at the wall in my livingroom. A big one more than 2 meters from the floor this is the first time I have seen one on the wall. I had hoped I had killed them all. I really hope this was the last one

 

[Snaketibe]

Damn I am still finding silverfish, Today I saw one at the wall in my livingroom. A big one more than 2 meters from the floor this is the first time I have seen one on the wall. I had hoped I had killed them all. I really hope this was the last one

I'm really sorry you're still having these problems.

In dusty bathrooms and toilets, they can often be found crawling on the walls unfortunately. Since they eat paper, the dust from toilet paper settles on walls and they go there to eat it. Due to your recent cleaning regime, perhaps the one on your living room wall was searching for food there?

As for how you keep finding them, obviously they are very small and fast moving, with the babies being extremely small and difficult to spot. I also believe they can sometimes eat the glue in carpets, which gives them an extra reason to live in and under those, as well as in other difficult to check places like behind skirting boards, etc.. Eradicating them completely will sadly be very difficult indeed. I'm not saying it's not possible, or not worth trying, but it is very difficult. And if you manage it, sadly they may still re-infect your home at a later date, since they made it in the first time without you knowingly bringing them in.

Perhaps the best you can do is to regularly inspect and use deterrents like Lavandula around those areas you most wish to protect, and to maintain a regular cleaning regime, especially vacuuming your floors and dusting surfaces.

Good luck.

Jeremy

 

[Pomse2001]

I'm really sorry you're still having these problems.

In dusty bathrooms and toilets, they can often be found crawling on the walls unfortunately. Since they eat paper, the dust from toilet paper settles on walls and they go there to eat it. Due to your recent cleaning regime, perhaps the one on your living room wall was searching for food there?

As for how you keep finding them, obviously they are very small and fast moving, with the babies being extremely small and difficult to spot. I also believe they can sometimes eat the glue in carpets, which gives them an extra reason to live in and under those, as well as in other difficult to check places like behind skirting boards, etc.. Eradicating them completely will sadly be very difficult indeed. I'm not saying it's not possible, or not worth trying, but it is very difficult. And if you manage it, sadly they may still re-infect your home at a later date, since they made it in the first time without you knowingly bringing them in.

Perhaps the best you can do is to regularly inspect and use deterrents like Lavandula around those areas you most wish to protect, and to maintain a regular cleaning regime, especially vacuuming your floors and dusting surfaces.

Good luck.

Jeremy

thanks jeremy, I use poison and vinegar on my skirting boards once every week. I have not any in the bathroom yet

Yes I guess it would be hard to kill them all. I think they must have come into my home with something I have bought on the internet from a packet. So I do not bring packets into my home anymore I have not done that since I found this bugs. I now open my packets outside my home and all packing stuff do not get inside the house I throw it out. Then I check my stuff in the packet for bugs before I take it inside my home.

 

[Pomse2001]

Last night I found another big one between 2 pillows in my bed. This is the first time I have found one in my bed, . I killed it and since I found them in my home more than a month ago I have always checked my bed before I go to bed because I did fear they could be in my bed and now I found the first one

 

[Pomse2001]

sunday I found 2 silverfish, I found a dead one in an at-at case that I checked only about 5 weeks ago and I found one alive on a tea towel

But I guess since I have made it hard for them to find food and rest in normal places then the ones that are still alive find strange places to eat or hide

 

[Pomse2001]

damn damn damn, last night I saw a very little silverfish on the kitchen table one of those who eat paper this morning I had a normal silverfish in the kitchen wash it was also small so there are still some left

 

[Pomse2001]

saturday I saw a dead silverfish on the floor where I vacum clean every day. Last night I saw a very little dark silverfish at the kitchen table that I killed. So there are still some. I really hope this was the last ones. The strange thing is I have used vinegar on the kitchen table and I read they hate vinegar, it looks like this one did not care about that so I guess it does not work on dark silverfish.

 

[Snaketibe]

Thanks for the update. I think you're doing all you can to tackle the problem by the sound of things, Lars. I know it must be a great worry to you given the damage they've already caused, but doing what you are doing and regularly cleaning, checking for them, using deterrents and killing / removing any that you find, will help keep on top of the problem and can only reduce their numbers.

Please keep us posted on your progress.

Jeremy

 

[Pomse2001]

Thanks for the update. I think you're doing all you can to tackle the problem by the sound of things, Lars. I know it must be a great worry to you given the damage they've already caused, but doing what you are doing and regularly cleaning, checking for them, using deterrents and killing / removing any that you find, will help keep on top of the problem and can only reduce their numbers.

Please keep us posted on your progress.

Jeremy

thanks jeremy I think I will still use vinegar, I have read they kill the eggs if there are any where you use it.

I will take some pictures of the damage when I feel better

 

[bosk70]

I did see one in my bathroom last night Lars and made me think of your trouble on here, I have only seen them in my bathroom and under the sink in the kitchen which has always made me think that they just hang out in any areas subject to damp or condensation, my ones are always the very silvery usual silver fish see one about once a week but just in the bathroom or kitchen. Hope you get a resolution to the issue soon.