Originally Posted by
RedGarnet222
One time I went to the dry cleaners to pick up a skirt that I had put in for cleaning. While the lady was holding it up, a silverfish ran across it. I turned around and left. I figured they could keep it and my skirt. I wasn't bringing in a bug that reproduces like a rabbit into my house! So, I use only the finish in my house. That totally creeped me out!
Don't blame the cleaner. I worked in a dry cleaners as a kid and that's the first place I ever saw a cockroach. It was in our bottlebrush Xmas tree. We killed it, and we searched all over and put out traps. Never saw another. Silverfish like books. Someone could have brought clothes in in a bag that had carried used books. Perq would have killed it.
The vermin would come in in the paper bags that people used to put the inbound dry cleaning in.
Those paper bags came from a supermarket. I suppose that vermin could come in in plastic bags now.
Any damp will bring in silverfish. Any animal fabric will bring in carpet beetles. We had carpet beetles. All food is now in plastic covered containers. No more beetles except one or two strays. No food, they just die.