Silverfish are most often consumers of stored paper, cardboard and books, especially for the glues involved. (De Agostini Picture Library/Getty Images)

WTOP Garden Editor Mike McGrath

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Wow, Steve, silverfish are most often consumers of stored paper, cardboard and books, especially for the glues involved. But research confirms that they will eat clothing in a pinch. So to specifically protect your wearables, follow the same rules as with clothes moths:

Well Steve, as with many pests, silverfish are a sign of a potentially bigger problem: high humidity levels. Silverfish are creatures of extremely excessive moisture, thriving at a relative humidity of 75 percent or above, a level that is also very inviting to a slew of other annoyances, like roaches and millipedes. It's bad for your home as well.

So:

Rebecca in Alexandria was also fast to cash in on my New Year's Resolution to help homeowners find non-toxic pest control solutions, specifically for mice. She writes: "We've tried snap traps and glue traps and have caught a few, but still have some left and we're about to buy D-Con out of desperation, even though it's a poison and we've got two little kids."

Don't do it, Beck! Poisoned mice and rats will crawl inside the walls of your home to die, making a terrible stench and attracting many more pests! The poisons are also a great hazard to children and pets: .

To safely and sanely get rid of rodents:

Rebecca in Alexandria also wants some non-toxic pest control solutions for roaches. She writes: "We hadn't seen one in months and then one appeared in the bathroom medicine cabinet! Every now and then we see one; never a lot of them.

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Pest control expert finds second rare albino mole weeks after finding the first

2:04pm Thursday 2nd January 2014 in News

A MOLE catcher who trapped a rare white mole at the beginning of last month was amazed when he caught another on the same land just weeks later.

Mark Horsfall, from Catterick Village, found his first albino mole on a farm in Coverdale and said he intended to send it to a taxidermist and keep it as a memento.

He said although he had not been in the trade for very long, he knew others who had never seen one in 25 years of mole catching.

But now Mr Horsfall, who runs M.D Pest Services, has found a second albino mole just a mile from where he discovered the first on New Years Eve.

He said: I was trapping new land near the main farm as I'd started to notice mole activity in a few of these fields. With all the rain we've been having, the ground was completely waterlogged many of the fields in the Yorkshire Dales are very wet at the minute.

But moles will happily travel through runs that have water in them they are competent swimmers down to their ability to use their nose as a snorkel.

He added that moles are more visibly active during the wetter, winter months because their main food source is the earthworm, which are closer to the surface where the ground is wetter. Mr Horsfall said he is as yet undecided on what to do with the latest albino mole.

It is currently in my freezer with his comrade, but I may have it mounted and if a museum is interested in it thats probably the route I will go down, he said.

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By: InterAksyon.com January 3, 2014 10:14 AM

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MANILA, Philippines -- An environmental and health watchdog is urging the government to ban naphthalene-based pest control products after Bulgaria ordered the withdrawal from markets of mothballs imported from the Philippines.

The withdrawal in Bulgaria of mothballs imported from the Philippines should be a wakeup call for makers and users of naphthalene-based pest control products, Thony Dizon, coordinator of the EcoWaste Coalitions Project Protect, said in a statement released Friday.

EcoWaste cited information from the European Unions Rapid Alert System for Non-Food Dangerous Products that Bulgaria had recently pulled from the markets Bug-Off Naphthalene Balls imported from the Philippines.

It also pointed out that, the European Union, which includes Bulgaria, has banned naphthalene mothballs as a moth repellent product since 2008.

Despite the health concerns that prompted European countries to ban naphthalene balls, these cheap repellents against moths and silverfish bugs are still widely available in the local market, Dizon said.

Dizon noted that mothballs sold in stores even warn that, naphthalene may cause haemolytic crisis, or the rapid destruction of large numbers of red blood cells causing acute anemia but those sold on the streets have no labels or warnings.

The EcoWaste officer said the mothball brand pulled by Bulgaria poses a chemical risk because it contains pure naphthalene, which is toxic by inhalation, ingestion and dermal absorption, quoting from a notification published on RAPEXs website last December 27.

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Written byCHRIS HAVERGAL

Infestations will spread unchecked if Cambridge City Council goes ahead with plans to axe its pest control team, unions fear.

The two-strong team, which has almost 60 years combined experience eradicating rats, mice, cockroaches and bedbugs, is set to be closed down to save 54,000 annually.

Many of the teams services are provided for free and Unison fears the cost of getting in a private company will deter landlords and residents from tackling the problem allowing it to get worse.

There are also concerns that residents will switch to DIY treatments, potentially putting themselves in danger or increasing pests resistance to poisons.

The council is obliged by law to prevent infestations, so will continue to serve notices on businesses and households that harbour pests, but it would no longer provide an eradication service.

The authoritys team also currently operates on council land including play areas, parks and allotments, meaning taxpayers would have to pay private firms to keep down rodents at these sites.

Liz Brennan, the Unison branch secretary, called on the council to drop the plans.

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