What sort of bug is this?
02 April 2006, 08:10 PM
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What sort of bug is this?
In my Lass's bathroom. Tiny bug about 5mm long that was wider at the front and thin at the back. Kind of tear drop shaped i spose 
Seen on at work in the past and my mate has described them as silver backs, but google turns up nowt! Any clues?
The Lass needs her mind putting at rest as i've told her they suck blood and are quite posinous
Seen on at work in the past and my mate has described them as silver backs, but google turns up nowt! Any clues?
The Lass needs her mind putting at rest as i've told her they suck blood and are quite posinous
02 April 2006, 08:27 PM
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Try a search on Google for Silverfish, this is probs what she saw.
Originally Posted by Brun
In my Lass's bathroom. Tiny bug about 5mm long that was wider at the front and thin at the back. Kind of tear drop shaped i spose
Seen on at work in the past and my mate has described them as silver backs, but google turns up nowt! Any clues?
The Lass needs her mind putting at rest as i've told her they suck blood and are quite posinous
Seen on at work in the past and my mate has described them as silver backs, but google turns up nowt! Any clues?
The Lass needs her mind putting at rest as i've told her they suck blood and are quite posinous
02 April 2006, 08:40 PM
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Silverfish, AFAIK, harmless, live in old properties.
Once, when we were at college, I told a gullible lad from Blackpool that they were called "****-chafers". He'd seen one in the lads' crappers
I told him they were so-called because they got under your fore-skin and chafed you after you'd been to the loo. And being as there IS an insect called that, when he looked it up in the dictionary, there it was!
Poor b*gger was petrified of taking a dump for weeks
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Once, when we were at college, I told a gullible lad from Blackpool that they were called "****-chafers". He'd seen one in the lads' crappers
I told him they were so-called because they got under your fore-skin and chafed you after you'd been to the loo.
And being as there IS an insect called that, when he looked it up in the dictionary, there it was!Poor b*gger was petrified of taking a dump for weeks
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03 April 2006, 12:13 AM
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Had loads in my bathroom when i first bought the house, ripped out the old pine cladding whilst renovating it and never seen them again deffo silverfish, fast little beggers
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Originally Posted by alcazar
Once, when we were at college, I told a gullible lad from Blackpool that they were called "****-chafers". He'd seen one in the lads' crappers
I told him they were so-called because they got under your fore-skin and chafed you after you'd been to the loo. And being as there IS an insect called that, when he looked it up in the dictionary, there it was!
I told him they were so-called because they got under your fore-skin and chafed you after you'd been to the loo.
And being as there IS an insect called that, when he looked it up in the dictionary, there it was!
Big buggers they are too, over an inch long !!
If anyone from Warwickshire knows Burton Dassett, then go up there, watch the sunset, then get out of there cos they swarm by the thousands !!
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