FSCKING Silver fish!

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: mwmorph
lol i have a minor earwig infestation and i've only seen 1 silverfish alive in my house. Seems like the relatively harmless earwigs are kicking some silverfish arse.

That's not cool. Earwigs bite.

 

[JEDI]

Wiki

wow... females lay clutches of about one hundred eggs, usually in a crevice.

 

[funboy6942]

Buy some lizards or snakes at your local pet store and let them loose in your house
No more silverfish.

 

[j00fek]

bomb the house

 

[Philippine Mango]

Originally posted by: KnightBreed

Originally posted by: RKS

Originally posted by: MichaelD
God, I HATE those things with a passion. Little suckers bite too! I got bit on the wrist once a long time ago. I'll never forget it. The whole joint swelled up and my hand was numb for almost half a day. Bad stuff, those things. Kill them with a vengeance. Twice.

must have been something else. silverfish don't bite/sting. are you sure it wasn't a spider?

People commonly confuse silverfish with house centipedes. I remember reading that silverfish tend to hang out in moist, dark areas, which is why people usually find them in the bathroom/bathtub.

The oringinal poster is probably talking about centipedes, not silverfish.

Centipede

Silverfish

I know what a centipede is. I've probably found 30 silverfish in my lifetime, and only 1 centipede all in my house. I saw the centipede only like 8 months ago, it was in the bath tub... But silverfish, I've seen everywhere.

 

[Jikininki]

zomg...

it's just pictures for pete's sake...but it's making my skin crawl. those are the 2 kinds that i have in my house. Both are creepy as hell but I'm not sure whether or not to be happy that the centipedes eat silverfish.


EEEEEEEEEKS!!!

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
Hmm, maybe I am confusing the two. Are you SURE silverfish don't bite/sting? I can tell you this; it looked like a silverfish, and within 10 seconds of it biting me, my wrist/hand were on fire.

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

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: funboy42
Buy some lizards or snakes at your local pet store and let them loose in your house
No more silverfish.

or even toads. They love bite-sized snacks.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
God, I HATE those things with a passion. Little suckers bite too! I got bit on the wrist once a long time ago. I'll never forget it. The whole joint swelled up and my hand was numb for almost half a day. Bad stuff, those things. Kill them with a vengeance. Twice.

You allergic to stuff like bee stings, fire ants, etc...?

I've been bit by them before, never had any reaction worse than a regular mosquitoe bite.

edit: err wait, I'm thinking earwig. You sure you were bit by a silver fish? I didn't think they bit.

 

[Pastore]

God I hate that crap. THIS is why I'm never moving south. Every home I've lived in in New York and Pennsylvania I've only seen house spiders and the occasional centipede.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: Pastore
God I hate that crap. THIS is why I'm never moving south. Every home I've lived in in New York and Pennsylvania I've only seen house spiders and the occasional centipede.

Bah, go dig through your local mulch pile. You'll find plenty...amongst other creepy crawlies as well.

 

[Pastore]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: Pastore
God I hate that crap. THIS is why I'm never moving south. Every home I've lived in in New York and Pennsylvania I've only seen house spiders and the occasional centipede.

Bah, go dig through your local mulch pile. You'll find plenty...amongst other creepy crawlies as well.

Probably, but that means they're in the damn mulch pile and not in my house.

 

[aidanjm]

I always see silverfish as a sign people are living in filth

If you don't have crap lying on the floors, if you keep stuff neatly stored, boxed, off the floor - and occasionally spray with pesticide - then there shouldn't be any silver fish in your house

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: MX2times

Originally posted by: pontifex
i was in bed last night and reading a book. i happened to put the book down for a second and looked up a little. here's this small black spider slowly descending from my ceiling right above me. had i not seen it, it probably would have landed near the top of my chest.

scared the sh!t out of me.

Shens....you dont own any books

alright, you caught me, it was a porn mag...

seriously though, i had to laugh at this because of all the things people could call shens on this is what you chose? i have tons of books. i have more books than i have room to store them. i have about 40 or 41 books that are waiting to be read.

 

[BunLengthHotDog]

Shivers...but these are worse

House Centipede