i just purchased a home less than a year ago and everything is perfect except it has centipedes and silverfish

Question

i cant stand these things and need to know how to get rid of them fast i can hardly live in my home im so afraid i will see one running across the floor or wall help me please

Answer 1

That's a tough one. They are persistent little critters.

Try using boric acid - you can get it at any department store. It is a powder, quite inexpensive, and harmless to humans. Put it in any places you see signs of silverfish, along cracks in wood, etc. We use boric acid on our sailboat and it seems to control most pests.

If you have silverfish in your kitchen cupboards try putting loose bay leaves around all the shelves and corners. They won't kill the silverfish, but I have found that bay leaves spread around like that tend to keep most insects away. There seems to be something about the bay leaves they don't like. I've never used them for silverfish, but they work for ants.


There are special insecticides for silverfish, including Drone Dust which actually dries them out when they pass through it. And there are things called silverfish packs. Any powder you put down has to go in the dark places and cracks where they like to live, not out in the open - around your foundation, inside electrical outlets, around plumbing, under sinks, places liek that.

They are particularly attracted to wet, humid areas, so getting everything as dry as posible will help. Fix any leaky pipes, maybe get a dehumidifier. Regularly ventilate closed rooms. VAcuum cracks with the special crevice tool regularly. Use silica gel to help keep things dry. Keep all food tightly covered to remove their food source.

Did you do an Internet search related to this? You might get more ideas.

If all else fails, or if you have a big problem, you might need to call an exterminator, which of course will be expensive.

I hope this helps! Good luck with it!

Answer 2

You probably brought the silverfish with you as they feed on the glue in book bindings.
I've never heard of centipedes in a house, that's new one.

My exterminator uses the sticky glue boards for the closets, under the furniture,etc.. And some smaller ones amongst all the books, of which I have hundreds(books, not bugs). They do the trick, it's the scout ants I can't seem to get rid of. But the pest guy will take care of those too.

Look for something specifically to kill silverfish, plain old bug spray won't work...

Answer 3

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH........

OMG I hate, I mean DESPISE, centipedes.. oh god I want to puke thinking about them. I'd move out. That's the only option. LOL. We have had one or two centipedes here and no silverfish, but earwigs... which are just as nasty. I make my bf kill the hellipedes because I won't go near them. I think it's just that they're so fast and have so many damn legs. Ughh.. yuck... Buy yourself a nice huge bottle of some sort of Raid that is aimed towards centipedes. Then I would spray all the trim around your house.. get your bathroom really good too.. and by the doors. Silverfish.. eww... don't know.

Good luck
I don't envy you.

Answer 4

I don't know how good it is to spray your home that often...don't forget pesticides are carcinogenics too, but I would start from the outside and seal all the cracks and crevices around your home...remove any plants that touch your walls...spray the perimeter of your house.

Silverfish are attracted to paper products so NO BOXES anywhere inside your house or closets etc. If you have an unfinished basement wash the floors with borax. A lot of bugs hate borax. I actually use that around the house and it keeps ants away too as you can mix it with sugar and they take it to their ant colonies and it kills the queen. I have centipedes too but not nearly as many as one time. I think spraying the outside and sealing all those cracks and caulking verandas etc. helped a lot.

Answer 5

An inexpensive way to get rid of these are original mothballs. (Not the pine scented) Now this is for mild cases not severe cases. If you have alot of them then you have an infestation which means there are probably colonies within the walls and below foundation. If this is the case call an exterminator. That would be the only way to fully get rid of them. Good luck.

Answer 6

Both need cool damp places. I've had this problem, not fun. They are usually in the bathrooms and kitchens where the water supplies are. I have found that they are seasonal usually in the spring when the moisture from rain is greater than normal. Extermination is hard, doesn't always work on the centipedes they are hard to kill. Good luck.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Go to your local home store like Lowes or Home Depot. The sales person will help you buy the right spray for inside and outside the house.

Or, you can call a local bug service and they will be able to help you.

Answer 9

We have a house now too. However, when we first moved into our last apartment we had this same issue. They went away, but the apartment had probably sprayed. Now as a home owner... this is this spray Otho home Defense max.... it makes a barrier around you home and kills any exisiting creatures too. It is great... I hate bugs!

Answer 10

bug bombs would help get rid of those already in your house, but if they reappear after the bug bomb, then you may have a relatively small hole that is letting these insects enter from the ground/soil.