Silverfish In Attic Insulation

Make a paste of flour water and boric acid.

Silverfish in attic insulation.

You may find camel crickets cheerfully living in your crawl space but silverfish would much rather live in the house. Since insulation is found in the attic generally one of the least trafficked spaces in the home it can certainly become home to these and other pests. Do silverfish live in insulation. Seems they are eating the old paper backing that is falling off the old batt insulation.

Coat index cards with the paste allow it to dry and use as sticky traps. Sprinkle boric acid on and around a cracker and place it as poison bait. The attic is often a good choice for them because it is not dehumidified by the ac in the summer or the heat in the winter. As the silverfish walk across or into the insulation the boric acid sticks to their bodies.

Silverfish like to live in dark secluded areas around your home that are close to their food sources. What would you do. I read online that they are not of any health concern so maybe i should just forget about it. If you ve never been introduced to the household pest known as the silverfish it gets its name because it looks and moves a little bit like a silver fish.

It has shiny silver skin like a fish. The silverfish ingest the boric acid when they groom themselves or eat the insulation which causes them to die. Would you recommend removing all the paper and then calling an exterminator. Unfortunately these pests are nocturnal.