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Silverfish

The silver body and its side to side fish-like squirming movements earn this wingless insect the name - silverfish.  One of the oldest orders of insects, their ancestors evolved some 400 million years ago.  Not known to carry disease, they will eat a wide range of carbohydrates including paper, book bindings, sugar and even dandruff.  If water is available, they can live nearly a year without food

    artwork by Bradford P Ward
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Scaly scoundrel.  That's how Cockroach describes Silverfish in Chapter One of
A Pilgrimage of Pests.  He has a point.  Silverfish is devious to say the least.  But Cockroach is also jealous of her.  You see, Silverfish has one of the finest homes in the forest, a lovely silvery cylinder; and she won't let Cockroach go near it.
He has a point

Silverfish, greedy as she is, seems to have all she needs.  But once she tastes of one of Cockroach's crystal cubes
, she is consumed with a craving to have more cubes of her own.  And she will go to the ends of Meadowfield to find them. 

Silverfish is full of surprises and you can read about all of them in the three books that make up the trilogy, Cockroach of Meadowfield.

Video:  A Silverfish just doing its thing.  Hanging out and making a pest of itself.
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