silverfish in English

noun
1
a chiefly nocturnal silvery bristletail that frequents houses and other buildings, feeding on starchy materials.
Ants and insects including silverfish , woolly bears, earwigs and spiders can be tackled with products from hardware shops.
2
a silver-colored fish, especially a variety of goldfish.
But during studies of the foraging behavior of Weddell seals, the researchers acquired considerable data on two important fish species: the Antarctic silverfish and the Antarctic toothfish.

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1. In the bathroom I saw silverfish.

2. Unit 41 Why Do Silverfish Feed on Books?

3. They kill roaches, moths, flies, silverfish, and termites. Centipedes use …

4. I just stack it up, keep it dry, spray it for silverfish.

5. The sound makes small silverfish run down the back of my neck.

6. In the wild we saw them feeding on small moths, silverfish and cockroaches.

7. Some Apterygotes, like silverfish, may molt dozens of times and live several years.

8. Apterous definition: (of insects) without wings , as silverfish and springtails Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

9. Apterous definition: (of insects) without wings , as silverfish and springtails Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

10. Characteristics Bristletails are a group of small wingless insects that resemble silverfish (Thysanura) but unlike the fast running silverfish, Bristletails can jump distances up to 10 centimetres by flexing their abdomens when disturbed

11. House Centipedes feed on many types of small household pests, including spiders, flies, cockroaches and silverfish.

12. Bristletails - which includes the destructive Silverfish - represent one of the more overlooked groupings of insects

13. Centipedes Diet : Centipedes feed on small arthropods, such as silverfish, spiders, firebrats, cockroaches, carpet beetle and larvae

14. There's too many metal and dirge infested undertones but they'd go down a storm supporting Silverfish.

15. Orders Thysanura (the true Bristletails, with three bristles, including the silverfish) and Diplura (the two-pronged Bristletails), subclass Apterygota

16. Centipedes are carnivorous and eat soft-bodied insects such as spiders, termites, silverfish, and even other Centipedes

17. The Chinese kept tiny fossilized fish in their food stores to keep away insect pests called silverfish.

18. Often confused with millipedes, Centipedes are a benificial pest in that they eat common household pests like cockroaches and silverfish

19. House Centipedes are known for killing the most unwelcome pests in your house — roaches, moths, flies, silverfish and termites

20. A small, wingless insect (Thermobia domestica) related to the silverfish and inhabiting warm areas of buildings, as around furnaces or boilers.

21. The commander in chief specially lets the pantry arrange a silverfish thick soup, do you see to still make?

22. Moth larvae, carpet beetles, and silverfish feed on the natural fabrics in your clothes, causing small holes or shreds.

23. The term Apterygota refers to two separate clades of wingless insects: Archeognatha comprises jumping bristletails, while Zygentoma comprises silverfish and firebrats

24. Jumping Bristletail Their scientific name is Pedetontus but they are mostly referred to by their common name of jumping Bristletails or the jumping silverfish

25. One of the other things we did was begin to diversify the species that we served -- small silverfish, anchovies, mackerel, sardines were uncommon.

26. In Bristletail …were placed in the order Thysanura, which has since been replaced by the orders Archaeognatha (also called Microcoryphia) and Zygentoma (silverfish and firebrats).

27. Centipedes are nature’s exterminator. House Centipedes are an all-natural form of pest control. They eat a wide variety of pesky bugs, including flies, ants, moths, silverfish, spiders, and

28. The Bristletail in your images is a primitive insect that was once classified with Silverfish and several other groups that have since been taxonomically divided, with Bristletails now being classified in the Order Microcoryphia

29. Orders Thysanura (the true Bristletails, with three bristles, including the silverfish) and Diplura (the two-pronged Bristletails), subclass Apterygota ‘Jumping Bristletails moult 8 to 10 times before reaching sexual maturity, which may take up to …

30. *Thysanura (*Bristletails*, *silverfish*; class Insecta [1], subclass Apterygota [2])* One of the two orders of the Apterygota, whose name is derived from the Greek thysanos, ‘fringe’, and oura, ‘tail’, comprising ectognathous [3] insects which are more or less flattened and adapted for running.

31. The name Apterygota is sometimes applied to a subclass of small, agile insects, distinguished from other insects by their lack of wings in the present and in their evolutionary history; notable examples are the silverfish, the firebrat, and the jumping bristletails.Their first known occurrence in the fossil record is during the Devonian period, 417–354 million years ago.