To be paranoid about a bug I’ve seen on my wall?

[TurkishDelight57]

I hate bugs and pests. I loathe them. They give me anxiety. Usually my flat is free of all pests because I’m painstakingly meticulous about cleaning every nook and cranny.

However today I spotted this creature and I have gone into full panic mode. I spotted a different kind of bug in my bathroom yesterday and that’s two bugs in 24 hours. That’s way too many bugs for me.

Please help me- what do you think this is??? Do I need to call a pest control professional? Don’t tell me it’s silverfish. Ugh.

I’m sorry but that looks very much like a silverfish.

Looks like baby caterpillar to me do you have tree near a window?

@Akire I do but the window doesn’t open.

Yuck!!! What could I have done to cause this? I have a dehumidifier on all the time, and I clean every nook and cranny, I move everything

We had silverfish coming from under the bath, a floorboard had gotten damp from a leak. There will be something damp somewhere. You need to take the bath panel off and look at night, they don’t come out in the light.

Silver fish are silver unless your camera is really rubbish.

We got rid of ours by sprinkling dichotomous earth under the bath. It’s non toxic and I haven’t seen one for years now. Good luck!

@Akire The ones I saw were really dark grey. They were definitely silverfish and looked exactly like that!

It does look like a silverfish.

Such a lovely name for such a disgusting little entity

Ooh silverfish are wicked little bugs, they can live on dust for years and years. They’d probably survive a nuclear fallout 😂

You do have anxiety? Or a bug phobia?

Probably every single flat/dwelling in the entire country has some creature other than people and pets living in it.

Yes I am on medication for anxiety And for some reason (due to a horrible experience with a rental property in the past, I have an absolute phobia for pests.

Do silverfish cause harm?

Regarding the bath panel- I just recently had my
Entire bathroom taken apart and redone, about 3-4 months ago. There was a leak, but it was fixed and hasn’t returned since.

I’m on the ground floor and it has been rather wet and gloomy recently, so perhaps it’s the weather??

That’s a carpet beetle larvae

Oh googling that now! Thanks for the suggestion.

Do silverfish cause harm?

But I don’t have a carpet

No, silverfish don’t cause home.

Harm lol

I know it sounds silly that I don’t have a carpet, but I don’t...

Hopefully their not living in your home it may have come off someone’s clothing

Are they going to eat my flesh or my clothes and handbags while I’m asleep? (Make fun, but I will genuinely lie awake worrying about this, anxiety is a beast)

It's a carpet beetles larvae

@TurkishDelight57

Are they going to eat my flesh or my clothes and handbags while I’m asleep? (Make fun, but I will genuinely lie awake worrying about this, anxiety is a beast)

No, they’ll just eat some dust and dead skin and generally keep themselves to themselves.

You don't need a carpet. They eat textiles

Maybe my cleaner brought them in from someone else’s place? I’ll just do a clear out of everything, but I know that if they were infesting my property I’d see more than one. At least I think.

I’ll get someone to spray an insecticide or spray one myself just for peace of mind.

Noooooooo. So they’ll eat my clothes??

They will not and cannot harm you.

I have a similar phobia (of a different small, repulsive creature) and it's terrifying. No fun-poking from me