Oh god not silverfish, I had a few in my bathroom a while back and I spent like three weeks spraying all the nooks and crannies with lavender-scented spray every day to make sure no more of them came back. I like bugs but those are some creepy little fuckers. And they eat your books!
Thank you for your explanation! I feel a tiny bit better about them now despite constantly being startled by a massive one in the sink, etc.
The only bug I've seen is small spiders and the occasional but very rare silverfish or pill bug. We certainly don't have cockroaches or bed bugs. Is it feasible to get rid of their food source or is that a lost cause?
Fire? Probably not the preferred method.
Diatomaceous earth is good for almost all bugs while also being very safe for households, especially with pets or children as its only dangerous to humans if a very large amount is ingested
You really shouldn't do that. They're harmless to people, and if you've got many of them then that means you've got worse pest problems to worry about. Pests that the house centipedes are helping to keep under control.
You could move from a house to a cabin, trailer, or cave. Then you only have to deal with cabin centipedes, trailer centipedes and cave centipedes. But the house centipedes will be a thing of the past.
I would recommend you bug spray of the brand "ardap" ( if it is available outside EU / Germany)
It's not as toxic as raid and other brands but kills the bugs and the ones that survive bring the chemicals back to the breeding grounds it also stops partly or entirely growing.
So yeah..
You need to find why the centipedes are there for them to go.