Silverfish!

[drdroom]

Any advice on control of these paper-consuming pests? So far my bagged comics and art have not been bothered --any kind of plastic barrier seems effective. But other less well protected paper items have been ravaged. I spread a lot of diatenatious earth around cracks and crevices but it doesn't seem to bother them too much. OTOH, I haven't renewed it for a good while either.

[Weird Paper]

I don't know that DE really works in silverfish. Try keeping dessicant packs behind books in bookcases and in comic boxes. They don't like the dryness.

[drdroom]

Ok, sounds good, though I think the environment (Southern California) is pretty dry already.

[tv horror]

They hate the smell of lavender also buy a tube like gun and fill the cracks and holes all over your skirting with (it is called hard as nails in the U.K) filler. They are also killed by boric acid power and will avoid it like the plague. Clear the whole room at ground level and fill everything in sight, believe me it works great.

[drdroom]

Thanks!

[suspense39]

silverfish generally develop a cocky swagger after they've dined on a piece of Kirby art.

[Terry Doyle]

Wasn't there a guy on comicart-l who specialised in silverfish art?

[alxjhnsn]

Indeed there was. You can check out a long list of Themed Art Collections here. It's not complete and I have a few to add to it, but it's interesting.

 

The Silverfish gallery is here. Click on a name on the right to see what they did.

 

 

[kav]

Boric acid sprinkled on carpet then swept and vaccuumed works well at combating these type insects and fleas etc. Merely by walking on it they will doom themselves.

[Terry Doyle]

 

The Silverfish gallery is here.

 

 

Was any explanation given for this guy's silverfish collecting focus?

 

Cheesecake art I get . . . favourite superhero characters I get . . . but Silverfish???

 

[AKA Rick]

Silverfish seem almost like spiders, nearly impossible to get rid of.

 

I wondered if those "sonic" devices worked or not.

 

I did fumigate once and believe it eliminated most if not all, but they always return eventually, especially if your environment is prone to be a good environment.

 

I also heard that CRICKETS eat paper as well, and those are pesky pests, hard to get rid of too... I'm still trying to figure the problem to that solution (luckily the infestation is outside/outdoors (for now) and not inside the home (yet) but it's still irritating)

[David P Hartman]

You got the cart in front of the horse! You want the solution to the problem.... Not the other way. But no matter which way your headed.... Your looking at the south end of that horse! That's the problem with my solution? Never mind.

[shanester]

We picked up silverfish from a storage facility and have been fighting them ever since.