Great Bugs http://www.greatbugs.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:27:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 SilverFish http://www.greatbugs.com/?p=5 http://www.greatbugs.com/?p=5#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:27:58 +0000 Aaron http://www.greatbugs.com/?p=5 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.

]]> http://www.greatbugs.com/?feed=rss2&p=5 FireBrat http://www.greatbugs.com/?p=1 http://www.greatbugs.com/?p=1#comments Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:07:08 +0000 Aaron http://www.greatbugs.com//?p=1 The Firebrat is 9-13mm long; which is about 1/2 and inch. It has 3 tail filaments and it has 6 segments. It lives in houses in furnaces and by ovens , heating pipes. It also lives about 3 years long and lays 50 eggs or more.  The eggs have a soft shell around it.   The nymphs take up to 2yrs and 40 molts just to get to full size.

It likes to eat dry crumbs and scraps that drop when you are cooking.  It is gold with black stripes.

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