
How to Get Rid of Silverfish
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We have recently been getting silver fish on our carpet upstairs and today one big one was crawling in our sofa, this is the second time we seen one on the sofa (which seems strange as they like dampness) What can we do to get rid and keep them away?
Our "monsoonal moisture" near the beach in summertime SoCal brings legions of cockroaches into my house, along with ants and spiders. A pest control company has placed ant traps and sticky boxes for roaches and other intrusers inside the house and sprayed something toxic around the exterior foundation. This is week six and the ants have disappeared, but the roaches are still in evidence -- living, dying and dead -- and they are a huge, disgusting, always horrible surprise in the night when I switch on a light and walk into a previously darkened room. No form of extermination is too cruel for these gross pests, and anyone here who thinks otherwise must never have had an infestation. The only issue is: does it work?
I lay a long thin line of regular iodized table salt in the area where I found Silverfish. The Silverfish eat this and it kills them. I have to keep a constant watch for the criter. I do have a lot of humidity in my house.
I have used cedar oil diluted with water in a spray bottle to get rid of silverfish. Great for getting in to walls or any gaps between baseboards and flooring.
I live in Florida. I had an infestation of silver fish, when someone brought me over a folding table to use that was full of them. I left the table in the garage. I had and always put out Ant traps through out my home and in the garage. They all died with the Ant traps. I also put Borax at each entrance to my home on the inside. Silverfish have an exoskeleton (hard outer shell). Borax kills any insect with an exoskeleton because the powder dries out and cracks their shell and they die. Borax also kills fleas, cockroaches, earwigs, etc.
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