If You Find This Insect in Your Home, Here’s What It Means

  • stored boxes
  • Around plumbing openings
  • In other dark, damp areas

EPA pest-management guidance specifically notes that silverfish can inhabit wall voids, attics, subfloor areas, bookcases, closets, and areas around baseboards and frames.

So that silverfish you saw in the bathroom may not have actually started there.

It could have been traveling from another part of the house.

How Can You Tell If You Have More Silverfish?

Seeing one doesn’t automatically mean you’ve got dozens hiding behind the walls.

But repeated sightings are worth investigating.

Look for:

Live Silverfish

Finding them

There’s more to discover. Continue to the next page for the rest of this article.