SILVERFISH

Don’t let the name fool you; silverfish aren’t fish-like but take their name from the pest’s silvery scales that are metallic in appearance. Primitive, wingless insects that are 1/2 to one inch long when fully grown, they are flat and shaped like a carrot. Silverfish also feature three extended bristles on the rear of their body.

Very fast, silverfish are destructive feeders and often cause commercial or residential damage without you noticing. These creepy looking pests possess a love of paper and often eat the edges of book pages, bookbindings, and wallpaper glue. They even eat clothing too. If you have damp or moist storage boxes in your home attic, basement, garage or shed, silverfish are more than likely to inhabit these spaces. Given their love of paper, silverfish also commonly infest commercial spaces like offices, storage facilities, and libraries too. Fear not, silverfish control from Terminix Canada’s Newfoundland branch can remove these meddlesome bugs for good.