Holy chiz!!! Yesterday night i was working on a project. I got hungry and wanted to pour some pretzels in a bowl. I open my dishwasher to grab the bowl and WTF! I see this creature frippling all over inside of it. I mean, I see some of these once in a blue freakin moon, but this one was the largest one I've seen... EVER! it is at least the width of a thumbs nail bit. Finally! I know what these are for the longest time I thought they were deangerous. well maybe except for the reproducing part
@UrusaiBaka4400 If you wonder what something is you could video it and upload the video. Put a question there -- and use the tags; insect, bug, identification, domestic, household, etc.
But silverfish can't grow very big. I'm not sure what you meant about the width. Maybe its width was the same as the width of a thumbnail -- enormous! Not a silverfish.
Well i guess there was a maricle in it's growth spurt lol. I meant like the length of it is as long as the width of a thumb's nail. and it's width is like the width of a pinky nail. It's two tail thing freaked me out
we once had very little of these on the bathroom when i was kid.. it was my favorit animal and i sued to sit and play with them in my hands when i was takin a poo :D
Any time I find silverfish (which is quite rare, really) I try to catch and keep them. They can live a long time being fed just paper, fish flakes, and moisture from you breathing into the jar. They're fun to watch, I don't know why anyone thinks they're so scary or gross.
@Scythemantis So you find that silverfish can survive on the moisture from breath. I'd asked about that earlier in these comments.
Please tell, does the moisture condense inside the jar?
And would the silverfish survive just as well if you didn't breathe into the jar? That's a difficult question. That's why experiments are run with controls.
Cockroaches have an organ for extracting water that passes the air over a concentrated solution. Do silverfish?
@andrewburbidge Yes, a little "fog" in the container seems adequate for them. Strangely I've found that if I give them actual water, such as in a tiny dish or a spray of droplets from a bottle, they usually die. Other people I know have found that they must be kept almost totally dry as well. I do find most of mine in garages or attics that saw humidity but never outright moisture. Their needs are poorly studied I think.
@Scythemantis I have 3 of these in a box too! They're all over my university halls so they're not uncommon.
I feed mine dry pasta, they'll eat anything starchy though to be honest. I also put in their box damp paper to add moisture for them. Keeping newspaper in your bathroom and allowing the steam to get to it makes for a really good way of keeping moisture in the environment.
I hate these so much, when im sleeping on the couch i see em at like 2:00 am on the wall and i get creeped out. also on top of that these ar probaly the fastest little critters iv seen.
A hygrometer on my kitchen wall shows that the relative moisture content of air is a fairly constant 65 per cent (may need calibrating but should be approximately correct). I never see silverfish and it may be that they cannot survive in such dry conditions.
why are people saying they're cute? they freak me the hell out
Last night I saw one in my bath (I don't think it could get out - I have no idea why or how it got in). This morning when I woke up there was a house spider in the bath instead lol. Guess the spider ate it.
I put a towel in the bath for the spider to crawl out as a reward :-)
@Obsidian1392 Maybe the spider left a speck of something indigestible from the silverfish or maybe the silverfish went into the drain hole in trying to escape. Anyway, I've been reading more lately about how helpful and harmless spiders are. Silverfish might do a little damage.
@andrewburbidge yeah I think you're right because there was another one (or the same one) the next day and that disappeared without a spider lol. Down the drain, though? Wouldn't it just get washed away?
@666deathwalker That's about 3 times the quoted maximum size for a silverfish. Could it be a centipede that you found? Centipedes gain more body sections as they grow older.
@ShadowKreach Someone here said they damage clothes and I read that elsewhere also. They will take wallpaper off the walls of a cupboard, given long enough - but modern wall units have a plastic coating, so silverfish can't damage them.
@pokeopolis huh I never knew, I remember years ago under the stairs I had a box of magazines/papers, and noticed that there was this dust and I do remember seeing one of these things, I kinda looked it up and they eat cellulouse i guess that was in the paper, but I thought it was the refuse of the bug, then I thought to myself, wait a minute, if it is, does that mean that that dust would work as cellulouse nitrate? like gunpowder?
They infested our kitchen once....I told my mom but she never saw them and said I was nuts. Then they spread to the next room and were weaving around the carpet....I've never heard her make such a disgusted sound. XD
We put ant killer all around the perimeter of the rooms and I haven't seen them since. Thank god.
@randomandproudqueen That's a good tip for anyone worried about them, then. Antkiller.... but not the white powder that ants will carry down into the nest and feed to their larvae, I think. Something with a regular insecticide, maybe?
@andrewburbidge yeah, pretty much. If you put it around the outside of a room or by any gaps they can get in through, they can't come into the room to feed so just gradually vanish. I haven't seen any more around, alive or dead so it must work.
@randomandproudqueen i keep on finding house centipedes in my living room and bathroom! there frikin' scary looking things. i have a phobia of those things.
@aaliyahorman Apart from using insecticides, or keeping house chickens, keeping the moisture content of the air lower should reduce their numbers or eliminate them entirely because although they can live without liquid water, I think, there is a limit to their ability to extract water from humid air. Using an extractor fan or switching from cooking with steaming saucepans to microwaving should help.
@BubbleTenshi But if they're not silver, they're not silverfish - unless there are different sorts I've not heard of. Firebrats are very like silverfish but live near fires; I think they are darker; silverfish or firebrats might look brown depending on the light; but white ones are a puzzle.
Omg. Woke up in the middle of the night, saw FIVE of them on my floor beside my bed. GROSS!. Killed them all. Turned the light off again, couldnt sleep, so i turned it on again, i SAW 5-6 MORE!!! THEY WILL NOT DIE!!
@Swerina I don't mean to say there is such a thing, but what if there is bad karma and somehwere down the line a person can have set in store for him- or herself a cruel blow of fate such as they have dished out.
@Swerina Somehow I had thought of the butterfly effect also. That's quite a coincidence. Anyway, there will always be storms so such an effect could only affect the when and where of them.
I'm sorry to say that when I drive on a summer's evening, insects get killed by the car. All I can do is try to use the dipped beam so that not so many of them are attracted into the light. Rarely, I've hit birds also and I killed a muntjac deer. I was especially sad about that. There was no way to miss it.
@andrewburbidge haha. well well. sorry. actually, i'm not really sorry. But waking up in the middle of the night and seeing 10 silverfish, and maybe 10 more visible babies.. right beneath your bed... they had to die. If they could understand, i would have asked them to leave.
@Swerina I drop them outside but maybe that has the same result, because they never seem to live outside. I see your're from Sweden. Have you ever seen an elk on the road? I saw there was one in a shopping centre in Norway a few days ago.
@Swerina I think I know why the elk went to the shopping centre. Shopping is BIG in Scandinavia and it was feeling left out. It was a female, right? It was a lady elk that went into town looking for a share of the high life. You probably think I'm joking... maybe, but animals seem to want to get on YouTube. See my YouTube robin video - search for - andrewburbidge robin . That bird seemed to enjoy being in the spotlight. Could an elk read something from the brains of people?
@andrewburbidge hahhah, yes i'm sure it was a female looking for some shoes after a big breakup lol.Aaw.. little birdie.. actually i hate birds, unless they're on my plate. :(
@Swerina Still thinking about the elk, maybe it had found an illegal crop of cannabis out in the woods somewhere - it went for the sweet food in the shopping centre, as the video I saw shows; the ladies from the shop were telling what it did.
Near Vancouver recently, police found an illegal cannabis plantation and it was being guarded by wild bears, a raccoon and a pot-bellied pig. Think I'm joking? Search with Google for: vancouver cannabis bears
@andrewburbidge 'Mind-reading' brain-scan software showcased in NY.'
From physorg.com: "The software works by analyzing the shared attributes of different words. For example, a person who is thinking of a bear uses the same parts of the brain that light up when he or she thinks of a puppy or something else furry. A person thinking of a bear also shows activity in the amygdala - home of the fight-or-flight response."
An elk might be influenced by people, but a silverfish, probably not.
@Swerina There's a seal, called Trudi, hanging around on a beach in Germany this summer. They can't work out why. Could it be that she has got something from the thoughts of hoidaymakers there and is sunbathing, maybe thinking about meeting someone nice? "Seehund Trudi macht Urlaub am Eckernförder Strand." Translate with Google Translate.
Urghhh... I hate those things, My mom just found one in a Book and let it go! If I found A Bug in my house, I'd Squish it... Silverfish are gross, I remember when I found one on my bathroom floor and I wouldn't go in there for about 3 Days after I killed it... :S HOW THE F*** DO YOU KEEP THEM OUTTA YOUR HOUSE?!!?!?!?
I've not heard of them biting people or being poisonous and I was a bit surprised to hear about them being in a bed. I've never seen that either. The bathroom floor and food cupboards are the only places I can remember seeing them.
they aren't poisonous, and the reason you see them in your bathroom, the same place I always seem to see them, is because they eat hair... yep hair... love it. so your bathroom probably has hair on the floor. Even a clean bathroom has some. They eat hair, starch (cereal), sugar, and love glue, so book bindings, magazine bindings. so keep those off the floor, cause they will only attract them. I hate silverfish. Actually hate all bugs. Earwigs being the worst.
I think silverfish are cool. If you have an infestation of them than I guess it would be bit of a problem though. But I love how the run and weave and move, it's kind of neat.
You might like the little fly that appears in my latest video, which is of an oak tree. It zips about from place to place and I can't see what it could be doing. Maybe it collects pollen and so it doesn't need to stay in one place long; but that's just an idea.
i love silverfish :) i used to have some living in my bathroom and i loved them. they dont bite or anything so i dont see what the problem is with them. I've also heard them reffered to as bristle-tails, skimmers and "those scary little things that live in the bathroom". lol
Someone said in a comment that they sometimes eat other little creatures. They eat wallpaper paste, I think, because I've seen where they have removed a section of wallpaper in a cupboard. It's difficult to know exactly what they might eat. Perhaps they eat discarded skin cells in houselhold dust or something else from a person and that's why they might go into beds. Also, I read that they do eat natural fibres sometimes and could cause costly damage to valuable clothes.
I don't know for sure but probably insect spray would work, anywhere you think they might be hiding. Sorry to talk about killing off the subjects of this video!
@oOoRandomnessoOo Wait until you see a creepy fucker like that scurry across your blanket..WHILE you're laying in bed. Happened to me last night, thank god I killed it. 2 more months of having my room in a basement seems like forever after that.
I don't know anyone in my country who has those lol.. Seen them in the toilet & bathroom only. 90% of the times during when it's dark. I live in Estonia.
I've never seen one in my life either! Until I saw one in my bathroom sink (I drowned it down the drain) and then I just found one on my shirt that was in my closet ... *Shivers* I despise bugs ... ):
They upset some people. Maybe this video and others of insect pests here help to show people what to look out for. There is information about them in the comments also.
They seem to disappear then show up again. I didn't see one in the bathroom here for several months, then one appeared. Maybe a change in the weather was involved; we had a lot of rain in the last few days.
The problem is these buggers enjoy it outside the bathroom as well, in the room next to it. It seems like two different "societies". The bathroom mostly have smaller versions and not that many, when you enter you might see 1-5(in worst case). However the sleeping room can be quite nasty. The buggers climb very well and can easily get up into the bed, which is not really bad but can be quite "disgusting". They really are harmless creatures i totally agree, but they have the "zerg" with them...
Probably, they hatch in the bathroom, that's why the smaller ones are there. I think they eat discarded skin cells, then, if they are a problem in bedding.
Yeah, why bother? They eat cellulose from creams and foams, as well as hair. They don't make a mess, aren't hazardous, and generally stay out of sight.
Although I didn't realise it was happening, in a cupboard where there were silverfish, I found that a section of wallpaper had detached from the back wall. It must have been them. They are known to eat the fibres of clothes also, but none of that bothers me very much.
The bigger ones of these actually leave a blood stain on the floor when squashed. Quite interesting. I wouldnt want to pet with them tho. The bathroom has been infested with these and there is no telling how many they are. The interesting part is that they only hang out near the bathroom and not the kitchen/living room/small room nearby. They are only to be found in the bathroom/room next to it and half the hallway.
They feed off of starch/sugar found in bathroom products like shampoo or shaving cream, as well as hair. They like it cool and damp... so under the bathroom sink, toilet, or bathtub are ideal. They also prefer darkness. Harmless. Unless it's a disturbing infestation, I say let 'em be.
Maybe it's called silverfish for more than one reason. In these comments someone said they taste good. Do they taste like fish? I'll take someone else's word on that.
But if you smashed it, how did you identify it? Also, the ear has wax that is unpleasant and even poisonous, It's surprising to hear that one crawled inside, though if you say so, I'm inclined to accept it.
i didn't completely smash him, he was still identifiable, And most of the time if you freak one out, they try and run to the closest crevice, aka my ear hole, he didnt get all the way in but enough to poke his head inside. I kill 2-3 of these in my upstairs of my house every night (they love dusty enviroments cause like dust mites, these bugs eat dead skin cells, bread crums, and yes even human hair
You know a lot about them. Do you think they need liquid water or can they extract what water they need from hydrated constituents of their food, or even from humid air? It's something I discussed earlier in these comments.
That might prove things but I kept a butterfly in a box for quite a long time once and it survived so to absolutely prove or disprove the need for liquid water might be difficult. Then there is the question of whether or not they can obtain water from hydrated substances such as wallpaper paste. It could become more involved. You might apply for grant money for it!
Yeah, they consume glues, pastes, bookbinding and wallpaper. Anything with basic starches or sugars in it. They hold moisture better than house centipedes. In comparison, house centipedes become dehydrated very easily.
Can silverfish acquire water from vapour, like a cockroach can? I read recently that hygroscopic brine is saline solution which absorbs moisture - the process is referred to with the term 'deliquescing' and salts that are used are 'deliquescing desiccants' if you would like to search for information on it.
Maybe a cockroach uses hygroscopic brine and perhaps other insects do, including firebrats and silverfish.
Ear wax is very unpleasant and must be there to deter insects from entering. But some people don't make much of it, I think. Perhaps some don't even have it. So could it be that earwigs are called that because they have been known to crawl into people's ears?
they don't seem to be inclined to bond with humans, seems weird it would waste its time roaming around your ear, when it could be, umm surviving with the search for your cereal or hair on the floor, or yummier even more, glue bindings of your books.
Maybe you're right, but a closely related species, the firebrat, lives close to fires where there is probably never liquid water. Hence my discussion in the information for this clip. I used to see silver fish in a cupboard where they couldn't have got to water.
I think you are right; they do like damp places. The man who was servicing the gas central-heating boiler told me he sees them mostly in bathrooms. And the cupboard I used to see them in was perhaps a bit damp from condensation on a cold wall.
Holy chiz!!! Yesterday night i was working on a project. I got hungry and wanted to pour some pretzels in a bowl. I open my dishwasher to grab the bowl and WTF! I see this creature frippling all over inside of it. I mean, I see some of these once in a blue freakin moon, but this one was the largest one I've seen... EVER! it is at least the width of a thumbs nail bit. Finally! I know what these are for the longest time I thought they were deangerous. well maybe except for the reproducing part
UrusaiBaka4400 1 week ago
@UrusaiBaka4400 If you wonder what something is you could video it and upload the video. Put a question there -- and use the tags; insect, bug, identification, domestic, household, etc.
But silverfish can't grow very big. I'm not sure what you meant about the width. Maybe its width was the same as the width of a thumbnail -- enormous! Not a silverfish.
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Well we sometimes don't
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Well i guess there was a maricle in it's growth spurt lol. I meant like the length of it is as long as the width of a thumb's nail. and it's width is like the width of a pinky nail. It's two tail thing freaked me out
UrusaiBaka4400 1 week ago
i admit,i take great satisfaction in killing one of these if i ever find them. they make my skin itch.
JoyDivisiongirl 2 months ago
cute little buggers
BunnyUnite 5 months ago
Thumbs up if Minecraft brought you here!
kingofwii 5 months ago 4
we once had very little of these on the bathroom when i was kid.. it was my favorit animal and i sued to sit and play with them in my hands when i was takin a poo :D
jull444 5 months ago
Any time I find silverfish (which is quite rare, really) I try to catch and keep them. They can live a long time being fed just paper, fish flakes, and moisture from you breathing into the jar. They're fun to watch, I don't know why anyone thinks they're so scary or gross.
Scythemantis 5 months ago 4
@Scythemantis So you find that silverfish can survive on the moisture from breath. I'd asked about that earlier in these comments.
Please tell, does the moisture condense inside the jar?
And would the silverfish survive just as well if you didn't breathe into the jar? That's a difficult question. That's why experiments are run with controls.
Cockroaches have an organ for extracting water that passes the air over a concentrated solution. Do silverfish?
Thanks for adding more to this enquiry.
andrewburbidge 5 months ago
@andrewburbidge Yes, a little "fog" in the container seems adequate for them. Strangely I've found that if I give them actual water, such as in a tiny dish or a spray of droplets from a bottle, they usually die. Other people I know have found that they must be kept almost totally dry as well. I do find most of mine in garages or attics that saw humidity but never outright moisture. Their needs are poorly studied I think.
Scythemantis 5 months ago
@Scythemantis I have 3 of these in a box too! They're all over my university halls so they're not uncommon.
I feed mine dry pasta, they'll eat anything starchy though to be honest. I also put in their box damp paper to add moisture for them. Keeping newspaper in your bathroom and allowing the steam to get to it makes for a really good way of keeping moisture in the environment.
ThisIsElliot1911 3 months ago
Minecraft
Odanel12 6 months ago
I hate these so much, when im sleeping on the couch i see em at like 2:00 am on the wall and i get creeped out. also on top of that these ar probaly the fastest little critters iv seen.
codmw2isagoodgame 7 months ago
@codmw2isagoodgame Could they have been on the wall to obtain moisture from your breath? Would your breath have been rising past where they were?
andrewburbidge 7 months ago
As I've said in the information:
A hygrometer on my kitchen wall shows that the relative moisture content of air is a fairly constant 65 per cent (may need calibrating but should be approximately correct). I never see silverfish and it may be that they cannot survive in such dry conditions.
andrewburbidge 7 months ago
why are people saying they're cute? they freak me the hell out
Last night I saw one in my bath (I don't think it could get out - I have no idea why or how it got in). This morning when I woke up there was a house spider in the bath instead lol. Guess the spider ate it.
I put a towel in the bath for the spider to crawl out as a reward :-)
Obsidian1392 7 months ago
@Obsidian1392 Maybe the spider left a speck of something indigestible from the silverfish or maybe the silverfish went into the drain hole in trying to escape. Anyway, I've been reading more lately about how helpful and harmless spiders are. Silverfish might do a little damage.
andrewburbidge 7 months ago
@andrewburbidge yeah I think you're right because there was another one (or the same one) the next day and that disappeared without a spider lol. Down the drain, though? Wouldn't it just get washed away?
Obsidian1392 7 months ago
@Obsidian1392 That's probably what happened. After a life lived in conditions like in a desert, it found an oasis and drowned.
andrewburbidge 7 months ago
I just found one that's about an inch and a half long. It's adorable
666deathwalker 7 months ago
@666deathwalker That's about 3 times the quoted maximum size for a silverfish. Could it be a centipede that you found? Centipedes gain more body sections as they grow older.
andrewburbidge 7 months ago
silverfish actually eat other icky bugs like ants n' stuff, act like a pest control.
they are really creepy tho.
Chickengirl005 8 months ago
@Chickengirl005 Thanks. I read that they eat dead insects. I can't imagine one taking on a live ant.
andrewburbidge 8 months ago
theyre all fucking repulsive
lighttheskiesss 8 months ago
eww they are so disgusting i heard they are around when you dont clean very well. they seem to go near food or basements.
blackkat77 8 months ago
Well basically they like to eat soft wood paper glue ext in that category although there many parts have atrophied...
Sara3346 8 months ago
That thing is actually really cute, I probably wouldn't mind having them in the house.
ShadowKreach 8 months ago
@ShadowKreach Someone here said they damage clothes and I read that elsewhere also. They will take wallpaper off the walls of a cupboard, given long enough - but modern wall units have a plastic coating, so silverfish can't damage them.
andrewburbidge 8 months ago
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Modern Wall Units FTW
ShadowKreach 8 months ago
@ShadowKreach If it were much bigger you probably wouldn't say that.
QuintonioT 7 months ago
I don't kill them, I let the spiders do the job for me. I let spiders lose in my house and they hunt and get rid of the other critters.
Ihateflagging123 10 months ago
@Ihateflagging123 wow... your completely comfortable with spiders running around lose in your house.. those things give me the creeps,,
DarkprinX2500 8 months ago
Those have to be one of the fastest insects for the size of them. Makes it hard to squish them before they hide.
zombiemontage 10 months ago
Silver fish in a dish how many pieces do you wish, i counted once i counted twice but it turns out you aint nice
Billete37 10 months ago
@Billete37 I see what you meant. How many pieces of silver!
andrewburbidge 10 months ago
When you kill them they turn to powder dust, Why? Does anyone know?
pokeopolis 11 months ago
@pokeopolis because they mainly feed on starches
xiMajestic 11 months ago
@pokeopolis I never noticed dead ones, as far as I can remember. I wonder if other silverfish eat them.
andrewburbidge 10 months ago
@pokeopolis huh I never knew, I remember years ago under the stairs I had a box of magazines/papers, and noticed that there was this dust and I do remember seeing one of these things, I kinda looked it up and they eat cellulouse i guess that was in the paper, but I thought it was the refuse of the bug, then I thought to myself, wait a minute, if it is, does that mean that that dust would work as cellulouse nitrate? like gunpowder?
mhatsko 10 months ago
@mhatsko Is this some kind of trick question where you already know the answer?
andrewburbidge 10 months ago
@andrewburbidge no I actually don't know, it was just a guess on my part I have no idea if that's actually possible
mhatsko 10 months ago
So the apartments my family lives in is basically the projects.
and we have ants, roaches, and now i just found out we have silverfish.
yeah, it's time to fuckin move....
shmexylexi1 11 months ago
I hate those things. >:C They've ruined so many of my nice clothes.
skrcha 11 months ago
I just tried to kill one with a bb gun.... failed....
mattyew1 11 months ago
wats with the dislikes lol, this video is exactly what teh title says it is
CookieTray1 11 months ago
Silverfish. Jordan swish. Drum solo from The Commish.
If of these three I had my wish? The skill to rape a silverfish.
jebsievers 1 year ago
SILVERFISH HANDCATCH!!!
Taigacan 1 year ago
A like Silverfish, they're pretty rare in the apartement I live in.
kevinherbert 1 year ago
i fucking hate those!!! got lots of em in my house!!! wtf was god thinking creating those? -.-
111NoOne111 1 year ago
they do look like fish swimming if you look at the top of em i find em cool ta watch
Jedhaase 1 year ago
I like your style, Andrew Burbidge.
redsquarenine 1 year ago
SILVERFISH, IN A DISH! SILVERFISH, IN A DISH! SILVERFISH, IN A DISH!
Aeshir2 1 year ago 6
@Aeshir2 A couple more lines and a simple melody and you've got a nursery rhyme there.
andrewburbidge 1 year ago 4
@Aeshir2 I thought about it for a while and came up with this -
Silverfish on a dish,
How you scamper, scramble and scurry!
Silverfish on a dish,
I set you down and away you hurry.
Copyright © 2010 Andrew Burbidge
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@andrewburbidge I thought about it for a while and came up with this -
Silverfish on a dish,
How you scamper, scramble and scurry!
Silverfish on a dish,
I set you down and away you hurry.
Copyright © 2010 Andrew Burbidge
I just did something illegal im G :)
Billete37 10 months ago
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Silverfish on a dish,
I'll keep in there s'long as I wish. >:)
Silverfish on a dish,
Then, take you out and feed you to my fish. >:D
paloiu222 5 months ago
@paloiu222 Thank you. That's a nice little rhyme.
andrewburbidge 5 months ago
what can sliver fish do plz tell me i am scared of that creepy ass hole
houndoknight 1 year ago
We call them firebrats.
101stunning101 1 year ago
They infested our kitchen once....I told my mom but she never saw them and said I was nuts. Then they spread to the next room and were weaving around the carpet....I've never heard her make such a disgusted sound. XD
We put ant killer all around the perimeter of the rooms and I haven't seen them since. Thank god.
randomandproudqueen 1 year ago
@randomandproudqueen That's a good tip for anyone worried about them, then. Antkiller.... but not the white powder that ants will carry down into the nest and feed to their larvae, I think. Something with a regular insecticide, maybe?
andrewburbidge 1 year ago
@andrewburbidge yeah, pretty much. If you put it around the outside of a room or by any gaps they can get in through, they can't come into the room to feed so just gradually vanish. I haven't seen any more around, alive or dead so it must work.
randomandproudqueen 1 year ago
@randomandproudqueen i keep on finding house centipedes in my living room and bathroom! there frikin' scary looking things. i have a phobia of those things.
LittleLPROductions1 11 months ago
There's silverfish in my apartment, how do I get rid of them? haha creepy stuff
aaliyahorman 1 year ago
@aaliyahorman Apart from using insecticides, or keeping house chickens, keeping the moisture content of the air lower should reduce their numbers or eliminate them entirely because although they can live without liquid water, I think, there is a limit to their ability to extract water from humid air. Using an extractor fan or switching from cooking with steaming saucepans to microwaving should help.
andrewburbidge 1 year ago
since they eat hair I'm worried they'll eat my pubic hairs I don't want anything small near my uknowut
ShanusMaximus4332 1 year ago
@BubbleTenshi But if they're not silver, they're not silverfish - unless there are different sorts I've not heard of. Firebrats are very like silverfish but live near fires; I think they are darker; silverfish or firebrats might look brown depending on the light; but white ones are a puzzle.
andrewburbidge 1 year ago
Omg. Woke up in the middle of the night, saw FIVE of them on my floor beside my bed. GROSS!. Killed them all. Turned the light off again, couldnt sleep, so i turned it on again, i SAW 5-6 MORE!!! THEY WILL NOT DIE!!
Swerina 1 year ago
@Swerina Looking back on it now, Swerina, in the cold light of day, do you feel any regret at having wiped out all those little creatures?
andrewburbidge 1 year ago
@andrewburbidge Nope
Swerina 1 year ago
@Swerina I don't mean to say there is such a thing, but what if there is bad karma and somehwere down the line a person can have set in store for him- or herself a cruel blow of fate such as they have dished out.
andrewburbidge 1 year ago
@andrewburbidge I dont believe in karma, so i do not live around that belief.
Swerina 1 year ago
@andrewburbidge Yes, well. There is a looot of what if's... i dont think killing a silverfish is a butterfly effect.
What if i hadnt overslept this morning, might've got run over buy a car or something.
I'm sorry, i cant really build my life araound what ifs. At least not in these little terms. Ofc, its relative.
Swerina 1 year ago
@Swerina Somehow I had thought of the butterfly effect also. That's quite a coincidence. Anyway, there will always be storms so such an effect could only affect the when and where of them.
I'm sorry to say that when I drive on a summer's evening, insects get killed by the car. All I can do is try to use the dipped beam so that not so many of them are attracted into the light. Rarely, I've hit birds also and I killed a muntjac deer. I was especially sad about that. There was no way to miss it.
andrewburbidge 1 year ago
@andrewburbidge haha. well well. sorry. actually, i'm not really sorry. But waking up in the middle of the night and seeing 10 silverfish, and maybe 10 more visible babies.. right beneath your bed... they had to die. If they could understand, i would have asked them to leave.
Swerina 1 year ago
@Swerina I drop them outside but maybe that has the same result, because they never seem to live outside. I see your're from Sweden. Have you ever seen an elk on the road? I saw there was one in a shopping centre in Norway a few days ago.
andrewburbidge 1 year ago
@andrewburbidge aha. haha :P yes i've seen some elks actually. especially out in the bush :D
Swerina 1 year ago
@Swerina I think I know why the elk went to the shopping centre. Shopping is BIG in Scandinavia and it was feeling left out. It was a female, right? It was a lady elk that went into town looking for a share of the high life. You probably think I'm joking... maybe, but animals seem to want to get on YouTube. See my YouTube robin video - search for - andrewburbidge robin . That bird seemed to enjoy being in the spotlight. Could an elk read something from the brains of people?
andrewburbidge 1 year ago
@andrewburbidge hahhah, yes i'm sure it was a female looking for some shoes after a big breakup lol.Aaw.. little birdie.. actually i hate birds, unless they're on my plate. :(
Swerina 1 year ago
@Swerina Still thinking about the elk, maybe it had found an illegal crop of cannabis out in the woods somewhere - it went for the sweet food in the shopping centre, as the video I saw shows; the ladies from the shop were telling what it did.
Near Vancouver recently, police found an illegal cannabis plantation and it was being guarded by wild bears, a raccoon and a pot-bellied pig. Think I'm joking? Search with Google for: vancouver cannabis bears
Still, the elk might have been psychic.
andrewburbidge 1 year ago
@andrewburbidge 'Mind-reading' brain-scan software showcased in NY.'
From physorg.com: "The software works by analyzing the shared attributes of different words. For example, a person who is thinking of a bear uses the same parts of the brain that light up when he or she thinks of a puppy or something else furry. A person thinking of a bear also shows activity in the amygdala - home of the fight-or-flight response."
An elk might be influenced by people, but a silverfish, probably not.
andrewburbidge 1 year ago
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WealtheyZ 1 year ago
@Swerina There's a seal, called Trudi, hanging around on a beach in Germany this summer. They can't work out why. Could it be that she has got something from the thoughts of hoidaymakers there and is sunbathing, maybe thinking about meeting someone nice? "Seehund Trudi macht Urlaub am Eckernförder Strand." Translate with Google Translate.
andrewburbidge 1 year ago
@Swerina I've thought of how to deal with them now. House chickens!
andrewburbidge 1 year ago
@Swerina ROFL!!
BASEJOCK11 1 year ago
@BASEJOCK11 WHAT xD btw, they're ALL dead now!! So if anyone needs help, just hire me!
Swerina 1 year ago
@Swerina Just funny that you said you found them and then you killed THEM ALL lol.
My mom saw one and i never heard her scream so loud lol. I ended up feeding it to the fish in my aquarium.
BASEJOCK11 1 year ago
@BASEJOCK11 aha.. hahah :D
Swerina 1 year ago
looks like a fish. lols adorable for a bug
dbs55denis 1 year ago
Urghhh... I hate those things, My mom just found one in a Book and let it go! If I found A Bug in my house, I'd Squish it... Silverfish are gross, I remember when I found one on my bathroom floor and I wouldn't go in there for about 3 Days after I killed it... :S HOW THE F*** DO YOU KEEP THEM OUTTA YOUR HOUSE?!!?!?!?
whispa215 1 year ago
man i saw one of those creepy ass things in my room around 3:0 a.m this morning D:
i learned they eat hair and just about anything else!
that probably explains the small missing patches in the back of my head :[
4DAmbition 1 year ago
there harmless to humans besides eating your hair right O_O?
demon546789 1 year ago
lol i just call them fishbug. my mom found one when she was cleaning the house and i looked at it and i was sooooo disgusted!
TheMimiOMG 2 years ago
I hate them they are always in my bedroom...then my appetite goes away for the whole day:(
KKOPPI 2 years ago
i use to called them weird cocaroaches
xxabaxxreborn 2 years ago
kill it, a female can lay 100 eggs, so kill that bugger, or else you'll have more happy family members.
nadiaclifton 2 years ago
i swear to god these things are disgusting
TheBucksB 2 years ago
If you search for my username with silverfish - andrewburbidge silverfish - you should find a closer view of one. Perhaps that looks a bit nicer.
andrewburbidge 2 years ago
I live in Canada, and I always see silver fish everywhere in my house. They freak me out.
TukeGuy 2 years ago
Are these things poisnous? Do they bite? I have some in my bathroom. I don't know if they've ever gotten in my bed though. lol
mmafighter2727 2 years ago
I've not heard of them biting people or being poisonous and I was a bit surprised to hear about them being in a bed. I've never seen that either. The bathroom floor and food cupboards are the only places I can remember seeing them.
andrewburbidge 2 years ago
they aren't poisonous, and the reason you see them in your bathroom, the same place I always seem to see them, is because they eat hair... yep hair... love it. so your bathroom probably has hair on the floor. Even a clean bathroom has some. They eat hair, starch (cereal), sugar, and love glue, so book bindings, magazine bindings. so keep those off the floor, cause they will only attract them. I hate silverfish. Actually hate all bugs. Earwigs being the worst.
nadiaclifton 2 years ago
0_0 they eat hair?... do they eat hair that is attached to a scalp?
andrewsandjonsey 2 years ago
I think they'd be scared of being on a living person.
andrewburbidge 2 years ago
@andrewburbidge i was bit by one before... very painful.
TheBootscooter222 1 year ago
@TheBootscooter222 Sorry to hear that. I think it's very rare that they bite a person.
andrewburbidge 1 year ago
@andrewburbidge you know what , i was mistaken, my wife says it was an earwig that bit me..
TheBootscooter222 1 year ago
more like books or rather the bindings on the books, and various foods
husher5142 2 years ago
I think silverfish are cool. If you have an infestation of them than I guess it would be bit of a problem though. But I love how the run and weave and move, it's kind of neat.
csycica 2 years ago 2
You might like the little fly that appears in my latest video, which is of an oak tree. It zips about from place to place and I can't see what it could be doing. Maybe it collects pollen and so it doesn't need to stay in one place long; but that's just an idea.
andrewburbidge 2 years ago
i hate these bug
we used to have them in out house
EVERYWERE
and they still are alot of places
i hate them
:P
HawkFire124 2 years ago
Omg dude, I have them everywhere in our house. Even when I go to sleep. I always check my bed if there is some of them xD
Oh yeah I always cut there heads off when I see one xD!
jumpingmert 2 years ago
i love silverfish :) i used to have some living in my bathroom and i loved them. they dont bite or anything so i dont see what the problem is with them. I've also heard them reffered to as bristle-tails, skimmers and "those scary little things that live in the bathroom". lol
HeavyMetalKitty 2 years ago
They put holes in your clothes. That's why people hate them.
Prygst 2 years ago
I think u are thinking of clothes moths. Silverfish eat paper mostly.
HeavyMetalKitty 2 years ago
Someone said in a comment that they sometimes eat other little creatures. They eat wallpaper paste, I think, because I've seen where they have removed a section of wallpaper in a cupboard. It's difficult to know exactly what they might eat. Perhaps they eat discarded skin cells in houselhold dust or something else from a person and that's why they might go into beds. Also, I read that they do eat natural fibres sometimes and could cause costly damage to valuable clothes.
andrewburbidge 2 years ago
if you have silver fish in your bathroom ...take after this guy...put them in a dish
dwart420 2 years ago
Silverfish are awesome.
amari2001 2 years ago
OMG I have those in my bathroom!! how do i get rid of them??
Nazgulelfgirl 2 years ago
I don't know for sure but probably insect spray would work, anywhere you think they might be hiding. Sorry to talk about killing off the subjects of this video!
andrewburbidge 2 years ago
It rather encounter a silverfish than a cockroach. The way they move is so cool!
oOoRandomnessoOo 2 years ago 9
@oOoRandomnessoOo Wait until you see a creepy fucker like that scurry across your blanket..WHILE you're laying in bed. Happened to me last night, thank god I killed it. 2 more months of having my room in a basement seems like forever after that.
CyanideXsAINT 1 year ago
I don't know anyone in my country who has those lol.. Seen them in the toilet & bathroom only. 90% of the times during when it's dark. I live in Estonia.
Ergooo 2 years ago
These things are so nasty but atleast there not as bad as House centipedes.. I would freak out if I seen a centipede
FamousBaller08 2 years ago
I've never seen one in my life either! Until I saw one in my bathroom sink (I drowned it down the drain) and then I just found one on my shirt that was in my closet ... *Shivers* I despise bugs ... ):
kwakiferrsss 2 years ago
They upset some people. Maybe this video and others of insect pests here help to show people what to look out for. There is information about them in the comments also.
andrewburbidge 2 years ago
I just found one in my room (beside bathroom) and I've never seen one before! It freaked me out! I'm just glad they're not dangerous
llxXblackroseXxll 2 years ago
They seem to disappear then show up again. I didn't see one in the bathroom here for several months, then one appeared. Maybe a change in the weather was involved; we had a lot of rain in the last few days.
andrewburbidge 2 years ago
The problem is these buggers enjoy it outside the bathroom as well, in the room next to it. It seems like two different "societies". The bathroom mostly have smaller versions and not that many, when you enter you might see 1-5(in worst case). However the sleeping room can be quite nasty. The buggers climb very well and can easily get up into the bed, which is not really bad but can be quite "disgusting". They really are harmless creatures i totally agree, but they have the "zerg" with them...
huldu 2 years ago
Yes, they love to eat in the kicthen and like moisture in the bathroom !
Trusten1984 2 years ago
Probably, they hatch in the bathroom, that's why the smaller ones are there. I think they eat discarded skin cells, then, if they are a problem in bedding.
andrewburbidge 2 years ago
Yeah, why bother? They eat cellulose from creams and foams, as well as hair. They don't make a mess, aren't hazardous, and generally stay out of sight.
Daveyohwhat 2 years ago
Although I didn't realise it was happening, in a cupboard where there were silverfish, I found that a section of wallpaper had detached from the back wall. It must have been them. They are known to eat the fibres of clothes also, but none of that bothers me very much.
andrewburbidge 2 years ago
The bigger ones of these actually leave a blood stain on the floor when squashed. Quite interesting. I wouldnt want to pet with them tho. The bathroom has been infested with these and there is no telling how many they are. The interesting part is that they only hang out near the bathroom and not the kitchen/living room/small room nearby. They are only to be found in the bathroom/room next to it and half the hallway.
huldu 2 years ago
They feed off of starch/sugar found in bathroom products like shampoo or shaving cream, as well as hair. They like it cool and damp... so under the bathroom sink, toilet, or bathtub are ideal. They also prefer darkness. Harmless. Unless it's a disturbing infestation, I say let 'em be.
Daveyohwhat 2 years ago
woah, it does move like a fish.
bananian 2 years ago
I think it's silvery, like a sardine.
andrewburbidge 2 years ago
Maybe it's called silverfish for more than one reason. In these comments someone said they taste good. Do they taste like fish? I'll take someone else's word on that.
andrewburbidge 2 years ago
Little scuttly bastards! Hate them hate them hate them
vickyangel82 2 years ago
i woke up to one crawling inside my ear the other day, freaked out and smashed his guts all in my ear :(
EmX3Ed 2 years ago
But if you smashed it, how did you identify it? Also, the ear has wax that is unpleasant and even poisonous, It's surprising to hear that one crawled inside, though if you say so, I'm inclined to accept it.
andrewburbidge 2 years ago
i didn't completely smash him, he was still identifiable, And most of the time if you freak one out, they try and run to the closest crevice, aka my ear hole, he didnt get all the way in but enough to poke his head inside. I kill 2-3 of these in my upstairs of my house every night (they love dusty enviroments cause like dust mites, these bugs eat dead skin cells, bread crums, and yes even human hair
EmX3Ed 2 years ago
You know a lot about them. Do you think they need liquid water or can they extract what water they need from hydrated constituents of their food, or even from humid air? It's something I discussed earlier in these comments.
andrewburbidge 2 years ago
well i currently have 5 hostages captive, lets see how long they live, im only giving 2 of them water. No i dont know how they get water sry :P
EmX3Ed 2 years ago
That might prove things but I kept a butterfly in a box for quite a long time once and it survived so to absolutely prove or disprove the need for liquid water might be difficult. Then there is the question of whether or not they can obtain water from hydrated substances such as wallpaper paste. It could become more involved. You might apply for grant money for it!
andrewburbidge 2 years ago
Yeah, they consume glues, pastes, bookbinding and wallpaper. Anything with basic starches or sugars in it. They hold moisture better than house centipedes. In comparison, house centipedes become dehydrated very easily.
Daveyohwhat 2 years ago
You know about dehydration.
Can silverfish acquire water from vapour, like a cockroach can? I read recently that hygroscopic brine is saline solution which absorbs moisture - the process is referred to with the term 'deliquescing' and salts that are used are 'deliquescing desiccants' if you would like to search for information on it.
Maybe a cockroach uses hygroscopic brine and perhaps other insects do, including firebrats and silverfish.
andrewburbidge 2 years ago
I read that some of these buggers can actually live without food for up to a year! How crazy can it get.
huldu 2 years ago
Insects have been known to crawl into peoples ears while sleeping. Don't think it happens often, but those little buggers ARE mentally insane!
Beckmen 2 years ago
Ear wax is very unpleasant and must be there to deter insects from entering. But some people don't make much of it, I think. Perhaps some don't even have it. So could it be that earwigs are called that because they have been known to crawl into people's ears?
andrewburbidge 2 years ago
arent them the lil bigs with the pinchers on its ass?
EmX3Ed 2 years ago
Yes, that's one way of putting it.
andrewburbidge 2 years ago
they don't seem to be inclined to bond with humans, seems weird it would waste its time roaming around your ear, when it could be, umm surviving with the search for your cereal or hair on the floor, or yummier even more, glue bindings of your books.
nadiaclifton 2 years ago
my worst enemy D:
negimafan00 2 years ago
I love silverfish! =D
They can do horrible things to the wallpaper in the bathroom though lol.
I got one as a pet, it lives in a damp tissue & eats leftovers! x)
They're easy to keep since they can't climb shiny sufeses! :)
SuperStefferz 3 years ago
I thought they likea dry places. If you make a damp area and a dry area, which would it prefer?
andrewburbidge 3 years ago
They like damp places, like a woodlouse. That's why I always find them in the bathroom.
SuperStefferz 3 years ago
Maybe you're right, but a closely related species, the firebrat, lives close to fires where there is probably never liquid water. Hence my discussion in the information for this clip. I used to see silver fish in a cupboard where they couldn't have got to water.
andrewburbidge 3 years ago
I think you are right; they do like damp places. The man who was servicing the gas central-heating boiler told me he sees them mostly in bathrooms. And the cupboard I used to see them in was perhaps a bit damp from condensation on a cold wall.
andrewburbidge 3 years ago
I recently found another and now have a better camera set-up. I have just placed the video in my YouTube listing.
andrewburbidge 2 years ago
It's a silverfish. There Harmless. And if your down on your luck they taste exactly like smoked salmon.
DOYLERULES69X 3 years ago
i dont think thats a silver fish. and its not an insect if it has more than 6 legs
captaincadavor 3 years ago
wait it is. i messed up. oops
captaincadavor 3 years ago
thats a silver fish its a type of bug
zeropurity3006 3 years ago
i know, i made a mistake
captaincadavor 3 years ago
It only has six legs, though it might seem to have more.
andrewburbidge 3 years ago
i know. i originally thought the house centipede or what ever was a silver fish but soon found out otherwise.
captaincadavor 3 years ago
I HATE those things!! Bad memories... -.-
SwedishBritneyFan 3 years ago
it moves like a fish too. they eat soapscum and hardwate build up, book binding and dustmites
Darkiesmistress 3 years ago