Bugs in Polish houses and apartments

Hey all,

Im posting this for a buddy of mine that lives in Poland.

He has a small flat and he is a clean person no doubt... But he showed me some bugs in his flat well it seems there are 4 kinds...

1. Cockroaches ( im sure these are normally all over the world )

2. In the bathroom he has these strange small grayish /white centipedes that wiggle around and seem pretty fast little buggers..

3. Some peachy color small moths ...?

4. In winter time there are some small very small black beetles ..??

If any of you have seen the above before or any other type of nasty bastards.. please tell us more.

We must fight to save the human race...

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That looks like a silverfish to me - harmless and usually live in damp dark areas: under baths, in unlit fireplaces etc.

Hey , yes that name seems correct ... the one i saw looked similar but it didn't have such long legs.. it was more grey in color .... cheers

Its not out of dirt. They don't spread any diseases. If they once inhabit your bathroom then they are there for good. There are some specificts that can make the amount of them lesser. i know that they like to eat sugar so people gives poison with suger.

Also cats like to eat them.

get your buddy to buy a cat..but then again if he's into a clean house a hairy moggie might not be such a good idea..hate the feckers myself

Hey thats could be a good idea, just worried what new bugs will come if he gets a cat hahaha

O also have them but have no idea who the hell they are. They live inder my carpet but don't see them often.


a cloth-moth? or a food-moth? (food moth likes flour, grains etc). there are methods for both of that.

Hey Zetigrek,

Yes the beetles are in the tv room near the carpet.

The moths are in the kitchen , yes he showed me some packets with holes in them they eat flour and cookies ....

For goodness sake - clean the mess!

Sounds like they are just young regular black beetles to me. They like damp.

Some fly spray will do the moths in... not sure what to do about the beatles...?

Szubak dwukropek! I have just found the name. They eat carpet (wool)

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and its glutonous larve: latin name is Attagenus pellio

And i thought a carpet muncher was something very different...!!!

Food moths are called mkliki in Polish. Cloth moths are mole.

??? Never heard that name. Mól spożywczy. Just that.

Thanks Zetigrek for the pics... you are spot on , thats the bastards alright !!

Damn these creepy things !!!

What are talking about ? robale - that the one!

But how do you kill em...?

for mól spożywczy your friend has to throw away everything which has its eggs (white little balls) and stick some special anti-moth sticker in the cupboard

The other night we were chillin having some beers and we heard some noises in the kitchen ... i turned the light on and like 6 roaches were just chilling on the fridge " having a party " the one walked by with some bread in its mouth ...hell its was freaky !! Then my buddy was trying to smack 3 moths dead while they flew around the room ..... damn its like a war there !! He told me when he takes a shitt on the toilet when he looks at the floor while he is on the toilet he killed three of those centipedes...

it looks like your friend is renting an old place. I would have the owner of the place debug it, or move to another apartment. Sounds like the place was infested before he/she moved in.

Hi , yes i think it is around a 1980 block he is on the 4th floor and the door near his flat is the rubbish drop off in the building :-(

He said last year there were not so many bugs , now its going crazy he said the roaches even live in the fridge and freezer ..and they dont die in there !!!

the infestation must be coming from another unit/s then. I think the owner should know.

That will be those pesky Russian bugs , snook over the border , they love the icey conditions in the fridge....

We reckon there could be one more type of bug but its not confirmed yet, as his girlfriend woke up with 5 red dots ( bites ) under her arm. It could have been a spider or something else but i think its some bigger white color centipede which is bigger than the ones in the bathroom .. i read that some bigger centipedes can bite...

never heard about such monster... But there are white worms with a black dod on its end (an eye?) which lives in walls. But it doesn't bite

there are sometimes skorki or szczypawy (looks like little scorpions) living in wood and they can pinch with tail:

yeah it looked like that but it was white i think ...

In the UK we call this an earwig...they like to live in dark damp places...

Those white worms I mentioned before are larves of big flies (mucha robacznica). Does it look more less like it: wp-content/uploads/2009/04/larwa.jpg


so I have no idea what it can be. Skorek is of red-brown colour

hell okay .... ill tell him he better move out before all those bugs start sleeping and eating with him ... sounds funny but its actually serious situation there man...