On 27/02/2021 10:02, Charlie Pridham wrote:
On 23/02/2021 20:22, Jon Nicoll wrote:
Hi there
can anyone suggest something that would keep woodlice away from an area - not necessarily killing them?

Our wooden children's playhouse has a few clusters of the wee beasties inside. I don't mind them, know that they do good in the garden, etc, but would prefer they didn't hang around there. I can collect them up mechanically and put them in the composter but I presume others will take their place. Is there something they don't like the smell of, say (but humans don't mind) so that if applied they tend to wander off elsewhere?

Thanks
J^n


Don't know the answer to your question , but I do know they eat decaying
matter so the only reason they are there is that the structure is rotting!

I hope not. About once a week we find one in the lounge, usually
crawling along the carpet. But one a few minutes ago really puzzled us -
it was a metre off the floor crawling up one of the lounge curtain ties!

We have no idea where they come from and how they get in (this is a 60s
built bungalow with suspended wooden floors over bare earth).

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Jeff