I've heard them be called Silverfish, but they don't look anything like the Wikipedia entry...
the best, I think, is: "they have no direct effect on human health beyond psychological distress to those who are frightened or disgusted by their appearance."
Oh god, Jay, you've sent me down a path I didn't want to go. The wiki entry for Silverfish says that another common bug is often mistaken for the silverfish: the House Centipede. This led me to a new wiki and a new level of psychological distress: House centipedes feed on spiders, bedbugs, termites, cockroaches, silverfish, ants and other household pests. They kill their prey by injecting venom through their fangs.
House centipedes lay their eggs in the spring. In a laboratory experiment of 24 house centipedes, an average of 63 and a maximum of 151 eggs were laid.
Young centipedes have four pairs of legs when they are hatched. They gain a new pair with the first molting, and two pairs with every subsequent molting.
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I've heard them be called Silverfish, but they don't look anything like the Wikipedia entry...
the best, I think, is: "they have no direct effect on human health beyond psychological distress to those who are frightened or disgusted by their appearance."
Oh god, Jay, you've sent me down a path I didn't want to go. The wiki entry for Silverfish says that another common bug is often mistaken for the silverfish: the House Centipede. This led me to a new wiki and a new level of psychological distress:
House centipedes feed on spiders, bedbugs, termites, cockroaches, silverfish, ants and other household pests. They kill their prey by injecting venom through their fangs.
House centipedes lay their eggs in the spring. In a laboratory experiment of 24 house centipedes, an average of 63 and a maximum of 151 eggs were laid.
Young centipedes have four pairs of legs when they are hatched. They gain a new pair with the first molting, and two pairs with every subsequent molting.
gaahhhh!!!
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