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when woodlice attack,sweetcorn

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  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    Here you go Dove.. a cuter version just for you..


    Utah, USA.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    I wonder whether the woodlouse fathers help with childcare? What would a baby woodlouse be called?
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Woodnits??? :/:o

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





  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    It wood woodnit?
  • ninnin Posts: 216
    That's why thee making me itch😃
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Woodlets.
  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    edited May 2018
    That's it Fire.. Woodlets.  Unfortunately, science has already named them.. "A baby woodlouse is called a 'manca' (from Latin mancus, incomplete)".  

    Josusa.. fact for the day "    It's tough being a male woodlouse. Not only can females give birth without mating (parthenogenesis), but males infected with a certain bacteria turn into females."  I don't think the dads play much part in childcare, unfortunately.  
    Utah, USA.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Oh if only.....
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • PurplerainPurplerain Posts: 1,053
    My ex husband burned down our tent on the Isle of Wight trying to kill a woodlouse with his shoe. He used the lantern to see it and the beastie fell on him. He went into a frenzy and dropped the lamp.
    SW Scotland
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Eejit!!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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