Description: Do It Yourself silverfish control, eliminate silverfish.
Eliminate silverfish by understanding silverfish behavior and insecticide treatments. Silverfish are unable to survive in low relative humidity. Reducing moisture and humidity is critical for silverfish management. It is also important to remove their food sources. After inspection, moisture control, and elimination of the food sources, insecticide application treatments are required for silverfish control and elimination.
In order to properly treat and control silverfish, their feeding behavior should be understood. They can roam some distance for food, but once they have found a food source, they remain close to the source.
These nuisance pests feed on natural textiles, wallpaper pastes, books and paper. Silverfish eat both protein and carbohydrates. Normal goods for their diet include: dried beef, rolled oats, flour, paper, starch, cotton, silk, some synthetic fibers, sugar, dead insects, glue, paste, and linen. In damp basements or attics they can also feed on the surface molds. They feed on book bindings and commonly eat the glue behind wallpaper.