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Woodlice in pots

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  • strelitzia32strelitzia32 Posts: 758
    If you like woodlice, you may be interested in their deep sea cousins, the giant isopod:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathynomus_giganteus

    Wouldn't like to see the size of pot that thing would hide under :o 
  • cornellycornelly Posts: 970
    Part of our garden was a redundant railway track, when we first had it it was swarming with woodlice, they are much reduced now, were never a worry.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Saw one intrepid woodlouse climbing up the wall inside our fully tiled en-suite yesterday. I presume it had climbed up through the outlet pipe.  
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Poly-anthusPoly-anthus Posts: 155
    Moved a pot today and couldn't believe the scores of the little blighters that were lurking under there!  As you woodlice lovers seem to like them, I just stood back and let them run away, lol.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Quite right!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • phillip_moore6phillip_moore6 Posts: 4
    edited October 2020
    I can remember about a year ago watching a programme about the RSPCA, they got a call from somebody saying they had found some baby armadillos in the shed!! Guess what?
    Funny but what a waste of their time.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Do you mean they actually turned up @philip_moore6? 
    That says more about the RSPCA than the caller  :D
    I wouldn't be surprised. My dad had squirrels nesting in his loft and they refused to turn up and do anything. He had to get pest control in. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • phillip_moore6phillip_moore6 Posts: 4
    i think it was more a case of go and see because cameras were there.
  • ManderMander Posts: 349
    I have tons of them in my garden. If I sat still for more than five minutes I'd probably get them starting to congregate under me. 
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