To wonder what the hell this is!?

[Ansumpasty]

Every day, this weird stuff is appearing from under my skirting board.
My first thought was termites but I’m in England and apparently they’re really rare here?
We’ve been in the house a year and this only started about a month ago. Every day I hoover it up and every night it comes back:

I'm voting for woodlice. The back of that skirting is probably a bit damp and they're nesting in there.

Can't see it wonderfully clearly but could it also be bed bugs? They are also k own to live in wooden furniture and skirting boards.....local council will come and inspect and treat if needed for and of the bugs that have been mentionedx

We had them when we had a big water leak, they came out from under the corner part of our skirting board, no matter what I did they would reappear.

Eventually when we realised about our water leak we had all the skirting pulled off tiles taken up and some of our concrete floor the place was a bloody mess, as soon as the place was dried out and everything was put back it was ok, but I remember ants in the same area as well at the time, so I would say you may have a damp issue.

We used to have it too in a woodlouse-infested extension!

I think you need to get a sample and have an exterminator in. It could be insect frass, or maybe something is chewing away the wood to build a nest.

Could it be bed bug poop?

We had that. It was death watch beetle poo

Mystery solved- within hours of hoovering the pile was back so I sat and watched (either like a detective or a creep, you choose) and I saw lots of ants come out of that tiny hole. They look like normal black ants.

Nippon Gel (it comes in a tube like a tiny toothpasts tube) will poison them.

Honest try the sugar and the bicarb... Kills the nest in a day or so.

@mummy2017

Will try it :) Thanks

Seems ants can't tell one from the other, so they are made of acid and the bicard reacts, they can't fart, so it kills them.

Try this from B&Q or Amazon. My mum used this for ants and never saw them again.

Woodlice are in fact very interesting insects if you try to get to know us. Signed, A Louse

^ this made me giggle!

Good luck with removing the ants!

Also going to try the icing sugar/bicarb trick, sounds better than other chemicals.

I’m trying icing sugar and bicarbonate now! The ants have taken it. 🐜

Yes we get this in the conservatory from the ants. Flying ant time last year was HORRIFIC. I’d come home to a sea of them on the floor in there.< Shudder>

I wonder if last year was especially awful for flying ants. We had them in our utility room. It was so nasty. They were raining down on us, then when we returned from holiday the floor was a seething mass of black flying ants.

It’s a poltergeist. Obvs.

Woodlice are in fact very interesting insects ... ahem ... crustaceans. signed Ann Otherlouse

It would actually be quite fitting if it was woodlice as I’m currently writing a children’s book about a woodlouse called Lee
Coming soon to a bargain bin near you

"... crustaceans."

Cloporte à l’Américaine

You'd need quite a lot of them.