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when woodlice attack,sweetcorn

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  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    As a child I kept them as pets, I even won second prize in the village pet show with them! I also used to like taking pill bugs and using them as mini bowling balls.. I wasn't all sweetness and light lols.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    They do have a terrible reputation across the pond for destroying crops. I have never heard that over here.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I just ignore them. I've never noticed them doing any harm.
    I even leave them if they're mixed in with my potting compost.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    I like them.. they are adorable.  

    They are also better mothers than many of my students have.  
    Utah, USA.
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    I'm in. You can't go wrong with a wood louse. 
  • ninnin Posts: 216
    Wood😁 you all like some of my wood lice. I have pants full and they nibble on everything😆
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ninnin Posts: 216
    Dovefromabove said:
    Dove these woodlice are giving me chronic giggles . Think they must be tickling. Kids keep asking what I am laughing at . What do I say !😅
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    I think they are one of the gardener's best friends, up there with earthworms and pollinators.  My home made compost is probably 80% woodlouse poo.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I dare say I am breathing 50% woodlice farts.
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