{"id":8122,"date":"2017-09-06T09:53:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T08:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=8122"},"modified":"2020-09-04T15:46:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T14:46:09","slug":"when-is-a-fish-not-a-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/2017\/09\/06\/when-is-a-fish-not-a-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"When is a fish not a fish?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing our series on pests<\/a>, we are now turning our attention to the silverfish.\u00a0 These are often found lurking in the corners of the Fitzwilliam Museum<\/a>, and, if left undisturbed, they can cause significant damage to a lot of our collections.<\/h2>\n

Conversation with\u2026a silverfish<\/h3>\n

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You\u2019re not in water\u2026<\/h3>\n

True.\u00a0 Can you see why I would be called a silverfish though?<\/p>\n

I can see you are silver, and you look scaly like a fish and I suppose you move a bit like a fish.<\/h3>\n

Exactly.\u00a0 If you want to be formal, my full name is Lepisma saccharina.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

So, you don\u2019t like being in water then?<\/h3>\n

No, but you\u2019ll usually find me in areas which are damp, such as basements, bathrooms, kitchens \u2013 this is where I can thrive.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t like swimming, do you like any other sports?<\/h3>\n

I can run pretty fast when needed.<\/p>\n

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Lying on my back – check out my legs! Great for running.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What about museums?<\/h3>\n

Yes, I feel very at home in some museums.\u00a0 I can stay in some museums for years \u2013 there\u2019s so much to take in and they have everything I need.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your favourite food?<\/h3>\n

Not gonna lie, I\u2019m a bit of a scrounger and generally scavenge for microscopic mould anywhere I can find it.<\/p>\n

Where do you find microscopic moulds?<\/h3>\n

Paper, books, textiles.\u00a0 That kind of thing.\u00a0 Wallpaper paste and the glue in bookbindings are a particular guilty pleasure of mine.\u00a0 Just the thought of all that starch is making me hungry.<\/p>\n

Well, we better wrap this up then.\u00a0 Just one more question, should I be worried if I find silverfish in my house?<\/h3>\n

As you can tell from my previous answer, we eat a lot of stuff that you might have in your house, so I would keep an eye out.\u00a0 We can cause a lot of damage when we are hungry.<\/p>\n

Also, if there is a lot of us, it is probably a sign of high humidity.\u00a0 Might be worth checking you haven\u2019t got a leak or damp problem, just in case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing our series on pests, we are now turning our attention to the silverfish.\u00a0 These are often found lurking in the corners of the Fitzwilliam Museum, and, if left undisturbed, they can cause significant damage to a lot of our collections. Conversation with\u2026a silverfish You\u2019re not in water\u2026 True.\u00a0 Can you see why I would be called a silverfish though?… Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":8126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,156],"tags":[225,218],"coauthors":[231],"class_list":["post-8122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-museum-life","category-the-fitzwilliam-museum","tag-collections-care","tag-cultural-value"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8128,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions\/8128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8122"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.museums.cam.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}