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Third year in University - when we moved in, it hadn't been cleaned from the previous tenants, my parents were kind enough to come and help us clean and it took the five of us (during covid too so we were trying to social distance as much as we could) 3 days to get it into a livable state.
That was only the start though, over the course of those days cleaning, we started noticing these weird bugs everywhere. Yup. Massive silverfish infestation. Huge ones, small ones, every room, coming in through the floor, the walls, the ceiling, behind furnature, anywhere there was a gap, they'd slither out of. We had to spray insecticide all over the place which gave me bad headaches if there wasn't enough ventilation.
Sometimes still, out of the corner of my eye, I'll think I see one and kind of panic for a fraction of a second, I'm not sure if I'll ever get over that.
I don't think you can really get rid of silverfish, right? I just accept a certain level
At the start of the year, we were having to kill 50 or more a day, some of them were huge, prehistoric era looking things. By the end of the year, we were only finding 1-2 a day and they were much smaller so we were definitely putting a lot of pressure on the population. Not sure if we would have wiped them out completely if we'd had to stay longer but I certainly wasn't gonna stay in that place any longer than I had to.
Oh wow. Yeah, that is on another level. I remember a court case that basically ruled " you cannot really get rid of the fuckers, having a few of them in an old building is not considered damage ". But 50, holy fuck.