The silverfish is about 9-13 mm long it’s a tapering carrot shaped.  It is a silver gray and coated with scales. He also has a 3 tail filaments with a threadlike antennae . Small black eyes and maxillary palps. It lives indoors in warm area and dry and damp places but they live all over the world.

They like to eat dried cereals, flour, glue, and starch.  They lay white oval eggs in 2-8 weeks the eggs hatch. Nymphs are 4-5 mm long.