hi,

Does anyone know of any effective ways of killing/getting rid of woodlouse?

The weather is obviously just right for em at the moment and eveytime i turn around another one is walkin across the living room.

Any commercial sprays/powder/gel stuff available?
Any handy hints/self help cure/remedies?

thanks

Ah my kids used to hammer these with the tv remote control and call them 'Melvins'!!

We suffered badly with them after a kitchen extension a few years ago - no probs now.

We used a powder my hubby got from a local DIY store - he would roll carpet back and sprinkle it along the gripper rods etc.

Not sure who made it but it was very effective he also posted the powder into the air bricks too.

Does this help? http://www.clacksweb.org.uk/environment/pestcontrolwoodlice/

or buy stuff here:
http://www.pestcontroldirect.co.uk/cgi-bin/ss000001.pl?SS=woodlice&PR=-1&TB=A&SHOP=

Dogs love 'em....suppose gettin' a dog is a bit drastic though and will probably cause a lot more grief than the occasional wood louse meandering across the endless plain that is your carpet. Certainly will be if it were anything like my dogs. Puppy anyone???:rolleyes:

Don't squish em cos they lay eggs, very much like cockroaches and this will just make your problems a whole lot worse and besides...the ol mighty god may look down on this....

Its getting late and my eyes are knackered when I saw the title of this thread I thought it said "Woodhouse - killing em" :shocked:

thought OMG whats going on over there :wow:

LOL - not Woodhouse - Woodlice/Woodlouse or Melvins as they are known in my house!!!!

Originally posted by mega_monty
Its getting late and my eyes are knackered when I saw the title of this thread I thought it said "Woodhouse - killing em" :shocked:

thought OMG whats going on over there :wow:
Yeah, I had to look twice too :suspect: :hihi:

go to ur local vets and buy a can of Indorex spray. Its sold in vets practices to kill fleas in ur house. a good spray round ur house last for a year and it kills of fleas (not that im sayin u got em, lol) but it also works on spiders, woodlice and alsorts of other creepy crawlies!

we had a problem in our porch with woodlice so i sprayed it around all the edges of the floors (where they meet the walls) and the next day there were loads of dead ones on the carpet so i hoovered them up and since then ive not seen any.

the spray works by killing any that are all ready in ur house and then for the next 12months will kill off any eegs that have been laid.

try it out, its good stuff! :thumbsup:

Me too...:loopy:

Make friends with them and send them on long quests...

I've noticed we've had quite a few of them around too..must be the time of year.

Seriously though...do you really need to kill them? They aren't exactly harming you are they?

Originally posted by msbehavin
Dogs love 'em....suppose gettin' a dog is a bit drastic though and will probably cause a lot more grief than the occasional wood louse meandering across the endless plain that is your carpet. Certainly will be if it were anything like my dogs. Puppy anyone???:rolleyes:

My dog won't eat them, he just keeps them in his bed. They dissapear eventually but then he brings them in from the garden so I spose they make their own way back out there.

You can hoover them up too, they don't die, just end up living at the tip in your dustbin bag. Sort of like the holiday of a lifetime or an arthropod social housing scheme.

And they don't do any harm at all unless you are a seedling, so why fill your house with chemicals?

Originally posted by Lucy_Smith
I've noticed we've had quite a few of them around too..must be the time of year.

Seriously though...do you really need to kill them? They aren't exactly harming you are they?


No, you're quite right. give me your address an i'll bag em an send em straight to you.

woodlice are fine - its only when they get this (http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02mexico/logs/oct13/media/isopod_450.jpg) big that they become a problem

Originally posted by 2fat2run
No, you're quite right. give me your address an i'll bag em an send em straight to you.

No need to get narky. I was just saying that a few woodlice wandering accross your living room floor aren't really harming you are they?? So killing them seems a little extreme. Why not just leave them to their business???

I've always detested woodlice, we used to call them tanks as kids. I know everything has a right to live and in their own space outdoors not a problem, but I for one don't want to share my living space with them.
I, by accident, found the flea spray used for your home carpets works to kill the nasty little creepers off. I used it round our carpets as a detterent for fleas and came home from work with the carpet covered in dead woodlice, quite a grotty site. So hoovered them all up, yack!

Originally posted by Lucy_Smith
No need to get narky. I was just saying that a few woodlice wandering accross your living room floor aren't really harming you are they?? So killing them seems a little extreme. Why not just leave them to their business???

Well then, you won't mind if he posts the little beggars to you, and then you can have them crawling about on your living room floor. Problem solved!! :rolleyes: :roll: