Does anyone know how, if you capture a few woodlice in your garden,
you could cultivate a large quantity of them in some kind of
container? E.g., how much space they need, what to feed them, how
long it takes them to reproduce.

On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:38:09 +0100, Adam Funk
wrote:

Does anyone know how, if you capture a few woodlice in your garden,
you could cultivate a large quantity of them in some kind of
container? E.g., how much space they need, what to feed them, how
long it takes them to reproduce.

Why?

In article ,
Pam Moore wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:38:09 +0100, Adam Funk
wrote:

Does anyone know how, if you capture a few woodlice in your garden,
you could cultivate a large quantity of them in some kind of
container? E.g., how much space they need, what to feed them, how
long it takes them to reproduce.

Why?

They're edible?


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On 2014-07-17, Nick Maclaren wrote:

In article ,
Pam Moore wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:38:09 +0100, Adam Funk
wrote:

Does anyone know how, if you capture a few woodlice in your garden,
you could cultivate a large quantity of them in some kind of
container? E.g., how much space they need, what to feed them, how
long it takes them to reproduce.

Why?

They're edible?

Yes, I want to try "potted wood shrimp".

http://huntergathercook.typepad.com/...-woodlice.html

"Adam Funk" wrote in message
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On 2014-07-17, Nick Maclaren wrote:

In article ,
Pam Moore wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:38:09 +0100, Adam Funk
wrote:

Does anyone know how, if you capture a few woodlice in your garden,
you could cultivate a large quantity of them in some kind of
container? E.g., how much space they need, what to feed them, how
long it takes them to reproduce.

Why?

They're edible?

Yes, I want to try "potted wood shrimp".

http://huntergathercook.typepad.com/...-woodlice.html

Chickens also like them, it gives them extra protein. Luckily I seem to
able to breed woodlice without trying and my hens just scarf them up.
I never even considered eating them myself.
Let me know how it goes. If they are nice I have a huge food source here
;-)

Tina

On 21/07/2014 23:56, Christina Websell wrote:
"Adam Funk" wrote in message
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On 2014-07-17, Nick Maclaren wrote:

In article ,
Pam Moore wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:38:09 +0100, Adam Funk
wrote:

Does anyone know how, if you capture a few woodlice in your garden,
you could cultivate a large quantity of them in some kind of
container? E.g., how much space they need, what to feed them, how
long it takes them to reproduce.

Why?

They're edible?

Yes, I want to try "potted wood shrimp".

http://huntergathercook.typepad.com/...-woodlice.html

Chickens also like them, it gives them extra protein. Luckily I seem to
able to breed woodlice without trying and my hens just scarf them up.
I never even considered eating them myself.
Let me know how it goes. If they are nice I have a huge food source here
;-)

Tina


Whilst woodlice are related to prawns and shrimps the thought of getting
the "Husks" off around a 1000 woodlice to make a sandwich...........
No thanks.
I'll stick to Prawns and shrimps.
A lot less work.
But as chicken feed ..... OK

On 2014-07-16, Malcolm wrote:


In article , Adam Funk
writes
Does anyone know how, if you capture a few woodlice in your garden,
you could cultivate a large quantity of them in some kind of
container? E.g., how much space they need, what to feed them, how
long it takes them to reproduce.

Try googling.

(I thought I had.)

I came up with
http://www.earthlife.net/insects/woodcare.html

and there are more.

That's a good one, thanks.