woodlice , good or bad ?
Jo Moulder
. On seeing wood lice killer on sale at the garden centre , perhaps i am
wrong .Also how in the world could they target it to only kill wood
lice ?
Can anyone put me straight ?
Regards Jo ~:c)
abacusnurseries.freeserve.co,uk
Unfortunately they also enjoy a range of seedlings and young shoots, looks
as if they enjoy a bit of side salad with their logs.
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Bob Harvey
j...@jmoulder.freeserve.co.uk (Jo Moulder) wrote:
Given that they are closely related to trilobites, and are among the most
ancient of inhabitants of the world I am inclined to leave them alone. I
have heard that they spread fungus, but then fungii are interesting.
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Rod Craddock
Jo Moulder <> I always thought that wood lice did no harm and only ate dead
material
> . On seeing wood lice killer on sale at the garden centre , perhaps i am
> wrong .Also how in the world could they target it to only kill wood
> lice ?
Generally they don't do much harm only as David said on some delicate
seedlings, sometimes. As for the woodlice killers - well it's been a long
time since I looked at any of those but they used to be broad spectrum
insecticides ie. kill anything including beneficial insects, nothing is as
far as I know specific to woodlice.
Rod
Ro
Kay Easton
<j...@jmoulder.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>I always thought that wood lice did no harm and only ate dead material
>. On seeing wood lice killer on sale at the garden centre , perhaps i am
>wrong .
Not necessarily. Some people seem to want to kill anything that crawls.
>Also how in the world could they target it to only kill wood
>lice ?
They can't. What they mean is it *will* kill wwoodlice, not that it
won't kill anything else.
>Can anyone put me straight ?
>Regards Jo ~:c)
>
>
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Kay Easton
Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/garden/
nico...@cwcom.net
crime, they * are* delicious and they obviosly want some pud after a good
meal of rotting wood. (who wouldn't)
Kate
Jo Moulder wrote:
> I always thought that wood lice did no harm and only ate dead material
> . On seeing wood lice killer on sale at the garden centre , perhaps i am
> wrong .Also how in the world could they target it to only kill wood
> lice ?
abacusnurseries.freeserve.co,uk
for it......
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http://www.swig-online.co.uk/abacus/
Jo Moulder
to the household cleaning isle in a supermarket . Sprays for this
,disinfectants for that , cloths impregnated with antibacterial god knows
what .I think society is getting more and more paranoid about germs with
every new and unnecessary product that comes out . Looks like the inside of
my local B&Q is going the same way ,i think it is bad to line up all these
different incecticides when one type will probably kill most things anyway,
and people seeing a huge bottle with Wood lice Killer ,written on it in
bold letters will then think that a wood lice is an evil creature that must
be exterminated otherwise they would not sell stuff to kill them . In
another generation people will think you have to use these things and faint
at the sight of a creepie crawley ( if there are any left )I must admit it
do use slug pellets and i feel very guilty about it but i refuse to use much
else .
J o~:c)
Trevor Rimmer
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Apparently they taste vaguely of shrimp when cooked, according to
that 'Wild Food' chappy with the posh surname. I am perfectly happy
to accept this fact unverified by myself. Even I have some standards.
Trev (Munch, crunch) R
P.S he did an omelette with them.