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Old 30-05-2003, 04:11 PM
Nick Maclaren
 
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Default Wood Lice. Friend or foe?


In article ,
"shazzbat" writes:
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| As I have caught them eating dahlia flowers in my greenhouse, I regard
| them
| as pests.
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| Me too. I went out in the evening to try to find what was eating holes in
| the flower stems of my lupins and caught them at it. *******s.

Don't jump to conclusions. It is unlikely that they were the cause
of the damage unless your lupins were VERY soft stemmed. What
probably happened was that something else damaged the stems first,
and the woodlice followed on afterwards.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.