Thread 24618823

I just found one of these little bastards on my bookshelf. I went through every book and didn't find any more.
Wtf do I do Anons. Is there anyway I can treat my books to kill potential eggs?

>>24618823 (OP)
Fucking ask ChatGPT like everybody else.
Share your silverfish stories. I like these little guys, always found them as kid among my dad books. They never grossed me out somehow. Based silverfish for literally consuming literature.

avid readers smdh. imagine hoarding bundles of smelly wood pulp
why dont you join the 21st century

>>24618823 (OP)
Genocided an unborn generation of these the other day. Those fuckers are unstoppable in the long run though.

>>24618823 (OP)
RIP.
But just ask ChatGPT, like >>24618832 said.
But I had to deal with them small and somehow really fast niggas too. It was thankfully in my second place of residence, where I don't have many books. My shelf was too smooth for them to climb upon. And there are some pretty potent genocide sprays out there. I used one called ARDAP. I don't know if this is available in your country though. There weren't many and I let my German genes take over.

So put your books away, spray a thin layer of genocide spray across every path they could take towards your books and else erase them from existence inside your house.

>>24618823 (OP)
She's beautiful. If you don't see that you're never gonna make it and Saint Peter is gonna sparta kick you down to Tartarus.

>>24618823 (OP)
Uh oh.

>>24618823 (OP)
Gather your collection and take your books one by one and wrap them in a plastic bag, trash bag, or some other protective covering to avoid wetness / stains and stick them in the freezer. The coldness will get rid of any smells and kill any pests and their eggs in the same breath. I recommend starting with your largest and oldest books first, more so if they already had silverfish problems already and if you bought them online, at garage sales, used bookstores, inherited them, or otherwise come from sources that contain silverfish. Make sure to keep the frozen books away from any possible contaminated books. If the problem continues, You can also dust your books, bookshelf and possible entryways with Diatomaceous earth and Boric acid or set up some homemade or store bought traps in the future. I almost always throw used books I buy in the freezer as soon as they come home to get rid of possible smells and pests.

KEEP IN MIND that freezers do not kill mold but only stop it's growth for a day or two after being taken out of the freezer, you're going to have to vacuum and clean every infected page yourself.

>>24618823 (OP)
Maybe store your books in a dry place instead?
>>24619180
Based OCD neurotic.

Become one with the silverfish. They ingest the knowledge, so by ingesting them you are digesting what they know on a physical level. Do it once, never turn back.

>>24618823 (OP)
sex with this

There is a stronghold under your house

>>24618823 (OP)
My apartment is crawling with these things, as was my last apartment, yet in the 25 years I've lived alone, I've never seen one on or even near my books. I assumed they ate other things.

>>24619392
billionaire silverfish prince

>>24619850
the only time i've seen those is in really old board game boxes that were under the couch at my dad's house

>>24619180
>>24619254
I should specify that ofc you eventually take the books out of the freezer after like one to three days.

I never saw these things until I loved to California. At first I thought they were earwigs, but they are harmless and eat your fallen hairs and stuff. I'd say they are pretty useful.

If I die here without being discovered I'm sure they will do the job of getting rid of my body.

>>24619882
They wouldn't hurt you even if they could, but guess what, they can't.
They look hella creepy but if you arm yourself with this knowledge, you can learn to ignore, or even appreciate them. Also they eat flies and other annoying insects, so they're total bros really.

insects are bros. long as they're not attacking me or crawling over my food i give them a wide berth. i let a daddy long legs chill out in my bathroom for a week.

>grown men still icked out by spiders
find god in yourself

>>24618823 (OP)
Put your books in air tight bags and freeze them for a week.

>>24618823 (OP)
>>24619880
Depends if they are silverfish or them god damn paper fish or however they are called in English. That thing on the picture might be the second one. They eat anything.

Maybe try getting some picrel. They eat them.

>>24620884
that thing rly does look like someone took a spider and copy and pasted the legs a bunch of times

>>24620882
What is this fucking meme? Don't freeze your books, idiot.

My gf has these in her apartment and I have them at mine, they have never eaten our books afaik

>>24621347
they're known to eat glue, so old books bound with more natural and less plastic adhesives are pretty tasty I guess. If they haven't eaten any of your books it's because they have another food source.

>>24621356
I don't think there is a single book printed after the early 2000s on my bookshelf.

>>24618823 (OP)
I have never in my life seen a creature like this and I have lots of old books. Do they actually exist in central european climates? I always thought they were an urban legend or a meme that people would post on 4chan to freak others out. How would they randomly appear inside your books?

>>24621383
Least surprising /lit/ comment.

>>24618823 (OP)
>saw and killed 3 of these vermin in my room last week
>had no idea those are silverfish
>my room is the only one with books in it
How over is it bros...

>>24621413
Guy from Germany here. Yes they do exist.
I heard online and from other people that these guys plopped up a lot lately. Most guess that some amazon warehouse is infected and these little guys get shipped everywhere because of this.

>>24620875
I don't mind most bugs in my house but deal with an infestation of various bugs and you'll change you'll tune. When ants crawl in your bed and bite you or you have to deal with the smells of stinkbugs or false ladybugs or, god forbid, cockroaches and termites, you will change your tune.

>>24619873
boxes under the bed or couch are the perfect place for them

bumping so more people have to look at op pic

>>24621562
Insects emit smell? I'm aware of stinkbugs but though those were somewhat exceptional

>>24621700
*thought

>>24621705
Thought wat?

>>24621554
I'll believe it when I see it, until then, sounds like bullshit to me. I'm an incredibly paranoid person when it comes to insects, I would notice one of those things from a mile away and in 30 years of my life I have never once seen one. So I'm pretty sure they don't exist in western Europe. At least not in any halfway clean and dry home.

There's something uniquely unwholesome in the way these things move. They're wrigglish, and damned fast.

>>24621822
>I would notice one of those things from a mile away
They hide out under the bed and they mostly come out at night, in the dark. It's rare to see them during the day.

>>24621822
They got flying roaches in the summer here. If you are lucky you only encounter them going out at night.

>>24622049
sounds familiar

>>24621413
>>24621822
I've only seen them on the bathroom floor.

silverfishes are cute.

OP is an idiot, killing such beautiful creatures.

>>24618832
>ask chatgpt

go back to /g/ where you belong and get the fuck off of this board.

>>24622504
That's valid. You're just biased.

I don't think these things eat books. Just glue or whatever. Only if it's damp.

>>24618823 (OP)
if there's one there's more

Are there any good books where the silverfish is the hero?

>>24623623
kek

I'm having to ask this yet again, what countries do you guys live in that silver fish are a problem? Surely it has something to do with the climate. i'm a bon and have never had silverfish in my books. Is it particuarly humid climates that lead to this?

>>24623623
my diary desu

>>24623729
Probably a combination of American / third world super hot and humid climate + posters here being filthy slobs that don't regularly vacuum clean their place. I too have never seen one of these things before.

>>24623729
not going to data mine here nice try

>>24623729
>particuarly humid climates
No. I live in California (dry) rarely rains and this is the only place in America I've encountered them. They do fine breeding under the bed and in hidden places in the bathroom. If you make a late night trip to the bathroom you will see them crawl across the floor.

>>24624005
If you want to keep them, just leave a little board game box or something for htem under the bed. They will nestle in there and breed.

I hate bedbugs.

I started letting the local house geckos come inside every now and then specifically because they eat bugs.

>>24618823 (OP)
These things infected my daki box so I had to throw them all out. My fault for not storing them properly.

>>24618833
One time a creeper blew up behind me and it surrounded me with water and cobblestone blocks encasing me in a sort of wet geode thing y it was in Greg Tech: New Horizons and

>>24625667
and what? you know, if you tease people like that candlejack will

>>24619418
kek

>>24622049
yea i just see them when i go to the toilet at night and surpise them basically. but this thread is a mistery to me. These niggas are chill as fuck, never seen one of them near my books, and they are one of the few animals that eat mold so they are aight in my view. I think there are other animals that feast on paper we should worry more about than these fellas

>>24623729
>>24624005
lol, lmao im from middle europe and i see them pretty often, but never near my books, do you fuckers live in the arctic circle,the sahara or some super sterile laboratory? thats basically the only places where they dont exist

>>24618823 (OP)
Put the books in an airtight bag with a small amount of Ivermectin solution. Leave them there for a few weeks.