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woodlice eating my flowers
sanjy67
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i have so many woodlice this year, literally thousands and i have suspected they are eating live things for a while, they are in my strawberry beds too and i have read that they will eat the soft fruit of strawberries. I have two small silver leaved plants with yellow daisy flowers, i've forgotten what they are and i watched a woodlice last night on my rounds happily munching on the petals of it for quite a while. Apart from ant powder how can i get the population down as i fear they are going to annihilate my crop of strawberries once they are ripening. do they have any predators ?
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thanks edd, i have loads od organic matter too all over the garden for them to eat. where's woodlouse spiders when you need them.
i went out last night and caught five woodlice munching the flowers, i watched them for ages in the the torchlight and they were definitely munching the petals, this is what is left
here's the evidence of the woodlice chomping my petals
the plant doesn't look to healthy to start with (the centre looks very 'fungusy'), maybe the woodlice can sense its on the way out and are making an early start?
thanks treehugger but i think it is the flash of the camera as it is healthy apart from them eating it, the leaves are silvery furry so makes it look a bit like that i think. The bit in the middle is new growth
Woodlice quite happily eat fresh strawberries not just rotten ones. Many times I have picked what looks like a perfect fruit only to have the little sods drop out of a neat hole they have excavated overnight.
Wish I could get those spiders
i agree steephill
valerie, i know ! i put out a trap last night of damp newspaper made into a dark cave like thing with semi rotten banana skin and satsuma skin, it was dislodged this morning and on the paving and all that was in it was a fox poo hahahaha