How do I get rid of silverfish?

Pink.

Hi lil monkey,

There's an older thread that should help so I'll add your thread to it to keep all the suggestions together.

Pink

katiekittykat

http://www.oldham.gov.uk/ocfs-env-epeh27s.pdf


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverfish

I just found this - is it any use?


Good luck

xx

lil_monkey

Hi Pink -winged and Katie Kitty Kat,

Thanks for your help:T . I will have a go at the suggestions and hopefully it will do the job.

Lil Monkey x xx

princesslizzie

Thanks for this thread. We have so many in our student house and they creep me out I found one by my bed and it makes me think, do they crawl over me when I'm asleep! *vomits*

Claire70_2

I havnt seen any at home and Im not going to look... but when I was rushed into hospital couple of years ago I was giving a room with its own bathroom and the bathroom had some in :O

miss_pepper

I remember some of these in my room when I was younger and used my brothers super strong overpowering deodorant on the little bu**ers, wouldn't really reccomend that as the smell of the deodorant was worse that seeing the silverfish lol

moo2moo

Raid Crawling Insect aerosol spray. Available from Tesco in a red can. Works a treat. Safe for kids and animals, claims to have a 2 month life and because its an aerosol you can blast under washing machines and fridges and freezers. You pretty much watch 'em go belly up and then vac up the remains. Haven't had any further problems since we started using this.

charlies_mum

Hi

I don't have any foolproof way to get rid of them, but had to smile when I read this thread as it took me back 40 years to when my parents had a Victorian house, and at nights when it was dark, we would turn off the lights and run around stamping on all the silverfish :rotfl:

caffenero

charlies_mum wrote: »

Hi

I don't have any foolproof way to get rid of them, but had to smile when I read this thread as it took me back 40 years to when my parents had a Victorian house, and at nights when it was dark, we would turn off the lights and run around stamping on all the silverfish :rotfl:

oh my lord!!!!! i haven't seen any at mine but will be paranoid at night now! my mate has some and is going to put all the powders down by where they come out and k1ll lots of them, then seal the gap, by gap i mean invisiable to the eye gap between the floor tile and first wall tile.

what do i seal it with though, wikipedia says use a sealant with no food in it that is toxic to insects or that provides no food for them but i can find no such product on the net HELP PLEASE!

lil_me

not OS but ant powder works

As for the stamping, yes, done that before when I was in hospital (well you have to make your own fun in there)