Woodlice?

[rich p]

What is the point? Ugly, inedible and ubiquitous. Every time I move a chair or a plant pot, there they are. Loads of the little b*stards, breeding away, making little poo stains.
Ban them, I say.

 

[asterix]

Have you tried writing to your MP?

 

[andrew-the-tortoise]

Never knew they were so many species!

Must admit, there did seem an abundance of them in the garden this morning - they must like the damp weather.

 

[rich p]

Never knew they were so many species!

Must admit, there did seem an abundance of them in the garden this morning - they must like the damp weather.

I have a few as house pets

 

[Headgardener]

Doing a wonderful job in my compost bin breaking down the waste into usable compost.

 

[biggs682]

open up our compost bin and its alive with them , and we get one or two in the house at times

 

[battered]

I like 'em. Great little things. There seem to be several million in my garden, and they love the compost bin in my parents' garden. So does at least one large grass snake, and it also likes eating woodlice. I'm not sure that this arrangement would suit me, were I a woodlouse, but they haven't complained or moved out yet.

 

[longers]

Never knew they were so many species!

I'd have guessed at half a dozen perhaps.

I like the ones that roll up but don't like the ones at the seaside.

 

[longers]

They've probably got poisonous ones in Australia.

 

[Crackle]

They've probably got poisonous ones in Australia.

They're called Australians.

 

[Panter]

Natures little caretakers, wonderful creatures

 

[BlueDog]

Fine in the garden, but I have a woodburner and have to store the logs next to it so they can dry out. The problem is all the logs arrive damp and seem to be infested with the damn things. I’m constantly finding them all over the house, along with new nests full with millions of delightful off-springs.

Other than crawling up my nose at night, they don’t seem to have caused aproblem, but I’m still trying to find a good way of exterminating the pesky little blighters from my world.

 

[Maz]

Woodlice are edible, although I dont think I'd fancy them.
I remember Hugh FearnleyW cooked them in rock buns [or something] on one of his TV series.

 

[newbiebiker]

Woodlice are edible, although I dont think I'd fancy them.
I remember Hugh FearnleyW cooked them in rock buns [or something] on one of his TV series.

Yay! I hope he enjoys them. Maybe when things comes to worse I'll have eat them.

 

[asterix]

Fine in the garden, but I have a woodburner and have to store the logs next to it so they can dry out. The problem is all the logs arrive damp and seem to be infested with the damn things. I’m constantly finding them all over the house, along with new nests full with millions of delightful off-springs.

Other than crawling up my nose at night, they don’t seem to have caused aproblem, but I’m still trying to find a good way of exterminating the pesky little blighters from my world.

Leave the logs to dry outside the house. Drying them inside absorbs valuable heat anyway.