For some really professional pictures of house centipedes and a properly knowledgeable blog post on them, go to Piotr Naskrecki's Smaller Majority. You will be amazed and fascinated.
Monday, 8 October 2012
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For some really professional pictures of house centipedes and a properly knowledgeable blog post on them, go to Piotr Naskrecki's Smaller Majority. You will be amazed and fascinated.
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I had one of these in my house a few weeks ago - hopefully it is out and about keeping nasties under control.
Silverfish ain't nasty.... primitive yes, but nasty... no! Not unless you have old wallpaper that could probably be better replaced, than hanging loosely on the wall.
In my view, silverfish [and their cousins, Firebrats] are marvels of evolutionary survival... and adaptation... seeing that the habitats they now frequent didn't exist at all when they evolved.
Never ever seen one of these centfeets... indoors, or out.
I must look out for them.
Fab Fungus Foray on Saturday... thanks Susan.
And... is he facing down the wall... or up?
Tim: down, I'm fairly sure :-)
I can tell you that silverfish are the enemy if you are in charge of a collection that includes an historic library (or indeed, historic wallpaper...)
Glad you made it to the fungi foray in the forest -- I would have, but our wood was being delivered.
Having looked at Smaller Majority... definately down! Fab site that... now marqued as a favourite.
Tim: isn't The Smaller Majority fantastic?!
We certainly had silverfish in North Carolina, and they were famous for eating books (glue, I think, or maybe paper).
Ken: they will eat both paper and glue. Old glue is made from plant or animal material, not synthetic, so they will go for it.
I'm not so ambivalent. I have been bitten, and it isn't pleasant. And if it wasn't one of these that bit me, then I don't know what did (and the scuties are paying the price)
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