How do silverfish get to your home?
Silverfish enter your home in several ways . They can be carried indoors by materials brought from outside, such as packages or boxes , or enter through cracks and crevices in walls.
Additionally, they can also accidentally enter indoors through open doors and windows. Once indoors, silverfish can thrive in warm, humid environments and easily find food in the form of organic materials such as paper, fabric and grains.
Although they are harmless animals , since they do not bite and cannot transmit diseases to humans, to avoid the reproduction of these unadapted insects it is also necessary to reduce the humidity in the house so that it is less easy for them to live there. .
Indeed, these small insects are harmful in the kitchen where we store our food. But where there are books, they also eat paper.
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