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Ivy covered tree
Just an update. I have now removed the ivy, there was one small birds nest but thousands of woodlice and I would think that they may damage the tree. By tickling it? They live on soft, usually decaying, vegetable matter and cause no harm in the garden except occasionally to seedlings (and not often to them). They were merely sheltering. They were not just sheltering but living there eating either the ivy or the tree, when they run out of preferred food they eat what they can get, in this case they would have caused possible entry for pathogens into the tree. No they werent, they were eating decaying matter, thats what woodlice do. And probably not the matter trapped by the ivy, as that is usually fairly hard. They have VERY weak mouthparts, and could not possibly damage the bark of even an established annual, let alone a tree! They might JUST be able to eat leaves that had already been damaged, but probably only when the leaves had already started to rot. From "Readers Digest encyclopaedia of garden plants and flowers" " and may cause damage to roots stems and leaves of various plants ". Art |
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