• Question: What do sliver fish do? and what is there job?

    Asked by RoRo to Rob, Rebecca, Josh, Chris on 22 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Chris Armstrong

      Chris Armstrong answered on 22 Jun 2015:

      Now I had to look into this as I wasn’t sure what they were. But presuming you mean silverfish that look like small armor plated things with a large mustache I would say they don’t really do a lot.

      Just survive.

      Then again thats primarily the job of most things, a few species we have denoted as beneficial to us. Cattle and livestock produce food, bee’s help pollinate other food, spiders eat flies to save us from perpetual annoyance. But in reality all of those animals are simply surviving how they know best, the cattle are eating the grass we provide and accidentally becoming more and more delicious in the process, bees are after the plants nectar to eat and in the process the plant uses it to breed and that accidentally makes more plants for us to eat, and the spider is eating the flies because its hungry and accidentally helps us get rid of the flies annoying buzz sound.

    • Photo: Rebecca Dewey

      Rebecca Dewey answered on 22 Jun 2015:

      Silverfish eat things such as starches and sugars in anything they can find. This can include books, carpets, dandruff, hair, paint, paper, plaster, fabrics, dead insects, leatherware, anything! They don’t really do anything useful and are considered to be pests. They can also contaminate food etc.

      They are eaten by earwigs, centipedes and spiders. Silverfish are not harmful to humans and their bite is not strong enough to damage human skin, so you don’t need to worry about them!

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