silverfish!

My god the names we use.

https://i2.wp.com/www.perthpest.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Silverfish-2-1024x1024.jpg?ssl=1

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hZWVrkwkz_E/VrxjQNMaICI/AAAAAAAAAaU/jnXb0E0XKqA/s1600/download%2B%252832%2529.jpg

http://uploads.webflow.com/54bb9fe0d3c0607b2d909346/5515347d0fd926fa7479c5a9_silverfish-damage-book.jpg

http://www.bluestarpest.com.au/images/silverfish2.jpg

http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/departments/preservation/images/bugs2.jpg

http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/departments/preservation/images/bugs3.jpg

http://pestvic.softcorp.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/DSC02251.jpg

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/.a/6a00d8341c464853ef0192acaea20b970d-pi

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/ed/6a/fd/ed6afd07d7515d75e532e05d4452268e.jpg

https://www.diplomaframe.com/chc-blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/book-lice-damage.jpg

even in death

https://aiccm.org.au/images/originals/VisualGlossary/InsectDamageBody.jpg

http://ustpaul.ca/upload-files/Library/DamagedBooksSmall-6.jpg

https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/webexhibits/scienceofconservation/images/con60.jpg

http://www.uky.edu/Classes/ENT/574/insects/homes/fshc/silver3.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Nutritional_traces_of_silverfishs_in_a_book.jpg/220px-Nutritional_traces_of_silverfishs_in_a_book.jpg

http://bendixlibraryconservation.com/wp-content/uploads/Silverfish-damage-to-bookcloth-covering_950x713.jpg

https://uconnladybug.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/silverfish-damage2.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Bruce_Chatwin%27s_Songlines_1987.jpg/220px-Bruce_Chatwin%27s_Songlines_1987.jpg

http://www.icr.su/rus/news/icr/Roerich_Kulu/Kulu_47.jpg

fond trypophobia thread reminiscences rn

I keep finding these shits in my flat - by "keep finding" I mean ever since I moved in I'll come across one every couple of months in a corner of the bathroom or cupboard under the kitchen sink. The other day I was clearing out some school papers from the main room (it's a housing association bed-sitting room, bigger than that sounds but still not a huge distance to travel between bathroom, kitchen & bedroom) and there was a full-grown one in the drawer with the loose papers. I worry about a proper infestation because I have a lot of delicious books all over the place but not sure what I can do besides keeping the place clean, light & dry :-/

How we got rid of silverfish

See them every now and then in the flat and they do my head in - they gross me out and I'm not really certain how worried I should be about them.

I was pretty puzzled about how a silverfish could create round bore holes, but eventually found the answers from Nicholas Pickwoad, an English expert who was helping Harvard University on its numerous book conservation problems. The silverfish feasts on mold damage, so it proliferates in humid environments. Its damage is generally to the surface of a page or to a leather binding. In contrast, the round bore holes often seen in early books were caused by the hungry grubs of the deathwatch beetle (family Anobidae), which can eat right through the pages of books on a library shelf or penetrate furniture. The beetle lays its eggs near a source of food, for instance, in a crack or crevice of a well-stocked bookshelf, and the larva bores its way through its food supply, sometimes taking as long as ten years before it finally metamorphoses into a beetle.

I've seen Silverfish in three different rooms over, I'd reckon, the last 2-3 months - on a kitchen surface, in the bathroom and on a book/record shelf. Have ordered some traps and the house is going to reek of lavender. Would using a dehumidifier help?