Keeping the house in order to remain neat and clean is not
an easy job, it requires
patience and care. Your homework will increase if Silverfish
insect enters your
home. Maybe you are
one of many
people who want
to get rid of insects from
your home. Although these insect is annoying but silverfish bug are very interesting and have some
unique characteristic. So, I will
tell you some
interesting facts about the Silverfish bug
1. Small
Appearance and Highly Acrobatic.
Silverfish
bug have small body
that measure up to 12-19 mm in
length. Although they’re
wingless, silverfish still very fast as
they dart about searching for food or hiding places. Silverfish bug can easily climb walls,
ceilings, and capable jump as much as two feet vertically.
2. They are
not bite human being.
They are
don’t bite and of course harmless for human, but also disgusting. You can get a bite from centipede, and it
appearance look like a silverfish (but it has many more legs). If you get bitten
by centipede, wash it with soap and take isobutylphenyl propionic acid
(ibuprofen) for pain, but other than that you should be fine, unless you
develop an infection. Silverfish like to
eat something that contains protein and carbohydrates. Silverfish prefer to eat
fabrics, like cotton and silk; paper, like books and wallpaper; and your food,
such as vegetables and cereal and
3. They’re
Hard to kill
Silverfish have
an amazing tolerance to bug poisons, probably due to long
time evolution helping them develop an immune tolerance. You simply cannot kill them.
4. Very
long lifespan.
Silverfish bug
have very long lifespan, from 3 to 6 years on average. Even in fact, some silverfish can be more than 8 years old. Also
they can sometimes survive more than a year without a food. So if you’re
suffering from silverfish problem at your home, you can’t just sit back and
hope they have a short life.
5. One of
oldest insects in the world
Silverfish bugs have been around this planet for a very long time. They
have live on this
planet for over 400 million years. Silverfish is far older compared with the dinosaurs.
They were 100 million years before dinosaurs existed.