Any Way to Keep Those Thin Crawly Silver Bugs Out of Cardboard Boxes With Paper In Them.

[WhatInThe]

Are there any tricks to keeping those thin silver crawly bugs out of cardboard boxes and paper files. I've come across a few in attic stored boxes of late. Some of those boxes haven't been touched in years so I guess they thought it was a safe home.

But are there any scents or materials other than a plastic or metal container to keep them out. File boxes in a basement environment don't seem to get them, only the attic.

 

[Grampa Don]

I hate silverfish. They destroy anything paper, including books. Boric acid is supposed to kill them. A plastic bag will keep them out.

Don

 

[WhatInThe]

I hate silverfish. They destroy anything paper, including books. Boric acid is supposed to kill them. A plastic bag will keep them out.

Don

In cardboard boxes I frequently put stuff in a plastic shopping bag(files fit pretty cleanly into dollar store type/sized bag) to keep moisture & mold out as much as anything but they don't have the silver fish problems so I'm already changing old boxes for new and putting the papers/files in a plastic bag before boxing them.

 

[jujube]

I buy 2 or 2 1/2-gallon ziplock bags. Anything paper that I store away goes into those first and then into a box. It keeps all the bugs at bay.