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Woodlice - is it just us?

ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
in Wildlife gardening
We have a lot of wooden floors in our home. Are we the only people to have to do a daily check round the house to collect any woodlice trundling around, and relocate them to the garden? No idea how they are getting in, luckily I quite like them and are happy to pick them up.

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  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    No you aren't alone @Ergates.  Old stone built house here and dampish - the woodlice like it and often wander about, they don't mind carpets and are adept at climbing up/down the stairs too. Like you, I pick them up and pop them out when I spot them.  Huge population in the garden too  :)
  • SherwoodArrowSherwoodArrow Posts: 284
    I find them daily at work, i asumed it was because it was an old building (100+ years old) and there a plenty holes. It's carpeted over old wooden flood boards. I like wood pigs as well and often talk to them and ask them how and why there inside, they haven't answed me yet though 😊.
    Nottinghamshire.
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  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    Lots in this 1930s house too. Not as many as last year, but we've had them for the 21 years we've been here. Removing a wooden "conservatory" about 18 years ago and replacing it with something more solid, helped. Got rid of the mice too.
  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Now worried we might have unidentified damp! 1970s house, thought we had sorted most of the gaps, at least we haven’t had a mouse problem for years now. We also talk to our little visitors! We don't get answers either. Interesting to check whether they are ones that roll up and are easy to pick up, or the ones that don’t, and have to be tipped over and offered a fingerprint to cling onto. Are they different varieties?
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    We had so many in our porch that we were daily removing them. Did some work on the outside as well as inside to seal the areas and have had no more. They can get into the tiny areas and these need to be sealed of but then we can't see these tiny areas!
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Yes, @Ergates - lots of different varieties, apparently.  I've just been looking them up.  The names are fascinating too.  I'm sure the one labelled "roly-poly" under his photo has a seriously long and complicated name he's too shy to use, like Porcellionides pruinosus and Platyarthrus hoffmannseggii, whose photos also appear under "lower classifications".   :)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    We had them in the downstairs loo and utility room. They were living in the rotten shed in the garden and going for a walk. 

    Got rid of the shed and got a new one and they all disappeared. 
  • Winston_The_Gravity_ManWinston_The_Gravity_Man Posts: 263
    Bibble-bug, chisel-hog, palmer-worm, monkey-pea, chuggy-pig, roly-poly, Johnny-grump and slater.  All nicknames for woodlice.
    Take a look at this link .... more than you ever wanted to know about 'em.

    The bizarre world of woodlice: 176 crazy nicknames and seven pairs of lungs

    When there's always biscuits in the tin, where's the fun in biscuits ?
  • TheGreenManTheGreenMan Posts: 1,957
    edited May 2023
    We call them hard-backs where I’m from. OH calls them cheese-logs! 
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