Silver Worm In Bathroom

Silverfish are teardrop shaped insects length.

Silver worm in bathroom. Silverfish are insects often seen in cool damp dark areas. If you haven t already confirmed it a silverfish or fishmoth is a wingless insect that gets its household name from its appearance. Silverfish have slender pearl gray or silver colored bodies without wings.

They seek and need moisture to live and therefore often appear in bathrooms. It doesn t help that they hang out in cold dark damp places like the basement or under the bathroom sink. I am finding randomly 3 inch long dried and dead brownish red worms in the girls bathroom.

Comparatively silverfish and their cousin the firebrat are pretty harmless but man are they ugly. These little pests love moist dark places and bathrooms are high on their list of preferred areas and they can move fast when they want to. Three long bristles on rear where do they live.

I am grossed out and am worried they are coming from my pet or children. Capable of thriving in most climates silverfish prefer to dwell in dark damp areas such as basements attics kitchens and bathrooms. They are hard to scrape off of the bathroom floor.

If you saw a silver bug racing across your bathroom floor there is a good chance it was a silverfish. 12 19 mm in length. They look like twigs.

Bed bugs get all the press these days. The insect has scales and the mature adult is about one third to a half inch long. You ll also frequently find these bugs in your basement attic and kitchen.