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Woodlice

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Merriwicks · 13/03/2022 23:33

Every morning without fail I will have 2/3 woodlice happily walking somewhere around my house. Has anyone ever found a way to keep them out? It is really getting to me and I know I'm being dramatic but it is affecting my mood.

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Notcontent · 14/03/2022 00:40

Is your house old and slightly damp? They don’t like dry, warm places.

Merriwicks · 14/03/2022 08:35

No it's not which I can't understand and is probably why most of them are dead by the morning. House is about 15 years old. We have a lot of shurbs/trees etc surrounding the house. Neighbours across the road are also experiencing it. Others may well be but just not discussed with them. We are all detached houses.
Our house is above our garage, so it would be colder, dark (although not damp as in damp walls) there. (we are on a steep hill so half the house is above the garage. Half is ground level. Making the living house a bungalow. Although I think they must be coming in somehow through vents/windows doors. But I have siliconed like a maniac around the windows doors. Maybe I need to re do all of that. I thought I remember seeing one time someone had some magic stuff to put down around perimeter of house which kept everything out for a while.
Recently when I was changing plug converings in kitchen and changed the covering for the TV aerial, there were loads of dead ones in behind plug covering Envy(not envy). It doesn't seem to bother my husband, but then his mum seen a spider in her house one day and didn't move it, so maybe grew up it is normal to have bugs in the house. Whereas it causes me unreasonable anxiety, the thought of them climbing over everything while we are sleeping. It is causing friction with us as well.

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OrlandointheWilderness · 14/03/2022 09:10

Nothing useful to add here, just wanted to say that woodlice are actually land based crustaceans, and live in family groups! Their mothers carry the young in a pouch for a couple of months after birth and they stay together for months. I've always found them quite interesting!
But then they aren't living in my house! They are completely harmless to humans though OP is that's any consolation. They like dark, slightly damp areas so if you have an older house you'll probably have them, we always did growing up.

Merriwicks · 14/03/2022 09:35

Oh dear no, that has made it worse hahaha. I have families of them living in my house, nightmare. I am at the stage of wanting to rip up my wooden floors to see if there is a whole family of them under there. The babies make sense now as occasionally I do have nearly see through ones which are tiny.
What I can't understand is why is it 1-3 every day! It's almost like they are sending a few out to suss things out every night lol. I make up whole little scenarios on what they be planning. Hahaha

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Jellybean23 · 19/03/2022 22:57

We were plagued with woodlice until we re-cemented a path running along the front of the house. There were gaps in the cement between the paving slabs and the house exterior wall . We had no idea how they got into the lounge - it's fully carpeted - but at least five or six would be crossing the carpet daily.

Spraying carpet moth killer around the perimeter of rooms helps a lot. Reapply once a year.

MiniDaffodils · 19/03/2022 23:04

We have them. I don’t mind them. They just plod around slowly unlike spiders who run really quickly and scare me with their horrible hairyness and horrible jointed legs

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