For some reason I find the smell of lavender realllly repuslive. I’d take the silverfish.
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And cod liver oil to deter people.
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Just googled “bevy of silverfish” trying to find an old W. C. Fields bit, but found instead this bizarre Harry Potter fan fiction about getting rid of silverfish…
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4731971/1/Silverfish
Don’t worry, it’s not THAT kind of fan fiction.
PS
The original W. C. Fields quote was something about a “bevy of silverfish, flying in V formation”
Cats do a pretty job getting rid of silverfish as well. And best of all, they don’t smell like lavender.
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Silverfish are living fossils, ancient winners in the game of evolution (in that they stopped evolving loong loong ago), so you ought to show some respect.
Next time you see one, congratulate it for having stuck around in this form for hundreds. of. millions. of years.
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You want to get rid of silverfish, simply do not bother the house spiders and house centipedes. They’ll aggressively hunt down all the baddies, and the house centipedes especially are fast enough to run silverfish down.
Also, if you’re lucky enough to see it actually happen, you can do a whole imaginary David Attenborough documentary…
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Not if you club them with the whole bush!
To be honest, though, I’m not sure where best to grip the thing for the most effective silverfish clubbing. Maybe by the roots?
Unfortunately that ant solution will attract koalas.
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Seeing all the hate for silverfish I have to ask, do they even do any harm? I had them in my former place but they just scuttle away when you turn on the light and don’t bite or eat any of your stuff afaik.
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Use all three and you won’t need shampoo anymore 
They’re innocuous in terms of health risk, but do damage books, and can eat wallpaper and such. If you’re completely digital and have painted walls you might be fine.
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This is why we don’t squish or remove any spiders or house centipedes we find in the house. They both will eat silverfish.
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Here in Illinois many folk put “hedge apples” (fruit of the Osage Orange tree) in basements to control silverfish. When my brother and I were young we collected and sold hedge apples door to door. It seems that the hedge apples must work on silverfish because people always asked for them when we were selling sweet corn door to door earlier in the summer before hedge apples were ripe. Worked in my Grandma’s basement too.
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They were only in the bathroom at my place so no harm there.
Clothing, too.
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Coraline would simply squash them with her fingers.
They are usually found in bathrooms, or kitchens…any ■■■■■ places generally, for obvious reasons…and you are correct they do no harm whatsoever; but their presence destroys the illusion that we humans are somehow immaculate and not of the animal kingdom. Get out a microscope however, and all such illusions disappear:
We got rid of ours with diatomaceous earth, but that was about 20 years ago and a few residences ago.
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Do NOT do that!
Treat them with essential oils, and you’ll only make them stronger!
(also, don’t steam their vaginas for the same reason)
