Is there any known antidote to wood-lice in the house?
[Nb This house is in Italy, if that is relevant.]

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On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:43:24 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:

Is there any known antidote to wood-lice in the house?

Remove the damp. Wood lice cannot live unless there is damp about.

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On 22 Jun, 00:34, "Dave Liquorice" wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:43:24 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Is there any known antidote to wood-lice in the house?

Remove the damp. Wood lice cannot live unless there is damp about.

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Dave. pam is missing e-mail

No you don't need to remove the damp wood - the woodlice will do it
for you, and when it's all gone they will go too. They are doing you a
favour.
Actually they really can be useful - I've removed door frames where
the damp bottom end has been eaten away by woodlice which cures the
damp prob by creating a gap.

cheers
Jacob

Dave Liquorice wrote:

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:43:24 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:

Is there any known antidote to wood-lice in the house?

Remove the damp. Wood lice cannot live unless there is damp about.

Agreed, they are a symptom of a problem, not a problem themselves. Did
you know they are the only fully terrestrial crustacians? Land crabs
need to lay their eggs in the sea, woodlice have solved that one. They
do need damp but as they have gills still. So if you have a lot you have
a problem you need to find.

Peter
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from "Dave Liquorice" contains these words:

Is there any known antidote to wood-lice in the house?

Remove the damp. Wood lice cannot live unless there is damp about.

That won't keep the woodlice out. Woodlice are terminally stupid and
will continue to stray into and remain in places that are too dry for
them to live.

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Roger Chapman

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:34:07 +0100, Roger
wrote:

The message om
from "Dave Liquorice" contains these words:

Is there any known antidote to wood-lice in the house?

Remove the damp. Wood lice cannot live unless there is damp about.

That won't keep the woodlice out. Woodlice are terminally stupid and
will continue to stray into and remain in places that are too dry for
them to live.

Yes I know the problem. I had them too because of a crap piece of
plumbing in the bathroom. I cured it but still they come walking up to
the third floor in my house. Sadly, they never make it back. Or maybe
it's do with my lodger flooding 2 storeys of the house a year ago by
not realising the outflow from the washing machine was supposed to go
in the sink!

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:43:24 +0100, Timothy Murphy
wrote:

Is there any known antidote to wood-lice in the house?
[Nb This house is in Italy, if that is relevant.]


Find out why they're coming in and sort that out. Then sort out the
places they're living in outside and move it further from your home.
And lastly if you have a cat like mine who brings them in you'll
continue to find them.
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Roger wrote:

The message om
from "Dave Liquorice" contains these words:

Is there any known antidote to wood-lice in the house?

Remove the damp. Wood lice cannot live unless there is damp about.

That won't keep the woodlice out. Woodlice are terminally stupid and
will continue to stray into and remain in places that are too dry for
them to live.

Yup, saw one on the stairs a few days ago, a long way from any water
source. First I have seen inside for some time.

Peter
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Try these:

http://images.google.co.uk/images?gb...ssodes&spell=1


Every bathroom at least should have several Drassodes. (Mind u, I have seen
even these pounce on wood lice and then change their minds!)

And I recall, while I'm at it, seeing film of people in the tropics leaving
their homes and offices open for soldier ants to march through and clean out
every bug from every crevice.

S



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Is there any known antidote to wood-lice in the house?
[Nb This house is in Italy, if that is relevant.]

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Timothy Murphy
e-mail (80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland