Follow the moisture
Silverfish and earwigs aren't random — they're moisture meters with legs. Silverfish in the bathroom, the laundry room, under the sink: there's humidity feeding them. Earwigs pouring in through the back door after rain: the mulch and leaf litter against the foundation is their habitat. Treat the bugs without fixing the moisture and they'll be back with the next humid week — which in Florida is always next week.
Silverfish
Those quick, silvery, fish-shaped insects in bathrooms, attics, and boxes of stored papers. They eat starches and cellulose — book bindings, wallpaper paste, stored clothes, dry food. They're harmless to people but destructive to belongings. Control means reducing indoor humidity (ventilation, fixing leaks), targeted treatment in their harborages, and protecting stored items in sealed containers.
Earwigs
The ones with the pincers on the rear — scary-looking, essentially harmless (they don't crawl in ears; that's a myth). They live in damp mulch, under landscape timbers, in leaf litter, and surge indoors after heavy rain floods their habitat. Control is mostly exterior: pull mulch back from the foundation, fix drainage, treat the perimeter and the mulch beds, seal the door gaps they walk through.
The moisture audit
Every silverfish and earwig job starts with finding the water: the slow plumbing drip, the AC condensate line puddling, the bathroom fan that vents into the attic, the grading that sends rain toward the foundation. Fix the moisture and the pest problem usually collapses — treatment handles what's left.
Seeing them regularly? Send the form — tell us which rooms.