<p>D just started grad school and is in her first apartment, 1000 miles from here. She is freaked out because she has silverfish. The management company came and sprayed, but they are still there. Anyone with any experience about what to do?</p>
<p>How many of them does she see? We get them from time to time - maybe five or six times per year (we’re talking five to six silverfish). They are easy to catch and dispose of. I don’t think that I’d consider spraying for them. It might be a better idea to find out where they are coming from or what they are attracted to.</p>
<p>Could be the time of year. We’ve been infested with various spider/insect life the past few weeks, including one silverfish (hate those :(). H just sprayed the basement with a round of Home Defense. I don’t usually go for using pesticides, but when you’re under siege it’s a last resort.</p>
<p>D told me a story at college, I believe they used liquid nitrogen. But I don’t usual stock that with my cleaning supplies.
Although reportedly works well.
;)</p>
<p>If your daughter has carpeting, she may want to try sprinkling some borax powder and working it into the carpeting. Also in the crevices near the walls. It’s not toxic and the borax dries up the exoskeletons of several species of pest, including silverfish and fleas.</p>
<p>Interesting, when I googled “silverfish” they don’t look like what we call silverfish around here - which is apparently actually a “house centipede”. Don’t know whether the silverfish in Lincoln are actually that or if they also call House centipedes silverfish.</p>
<p>I just googled and I think I caught one of those in my apartment a few weeks ago. Didn’t name it at the time, just got it outside.</p>
<p>I live in a basement and right now I am so ready for the weather to get cooler. It’s generally a good apartment but can be a bit open access to bugs.</p>
<p>As a side note, I discovered one drawback to busy granite countertops this weekend…you can have a line of tiny sugar ants crossing your bathroom counter and you won’t notice until they cross down into the sink. Yuck! Bring on the Clorox to remove all the pheromone trails and scrub up everything else.
Bugs in the house…one of the joys of fall.</p>
<p>Are bugs worse in fall than summer? Why?</p>
<p>^Some of them start looking for warmer places to hang out once the weather gets a bit cooler. Bugs and spiders that have been lurking around outside all summer start creeping and crawling into houses, basements, eaves, etc. </p>
<p>Ants are different and can have seasonal onslaughts in the house in the spring or summer foraging for sugar, grease, or what have you. I once had an siege of sugar ants that I swear crawled over every square inch of the kitchen over the course of about a week and then moved on. I found dead ones everywhere, including on cough syrup bottles and at the bottom of pop cans. Yuk!</p>