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Uniscots97

found creepy crawlies in work. About an inch long, silvery grey and lots of legs. What are they???!!! They were curled up at the edge of the carpet, found about 20-30 of them.

Karmacat

Silverfish? They wiggle about really fast, but don't seem to go anywhere too much? They're not harmful or disease-ish, but I don't know what they *do* indicate.... damp?

Triciaxx

unixgirluk wrote: »

found creepy crawlies in work. About an inch long, silvery grey and lots of legs. What are they???!!! They were curled up at the edge of the carpet, found about 20-30 of them.

they could be woodlouse (also called sowbugs). Wikipedia has good pictures for confirmation. They do roll up. Not a problem apart from indicating damp.

redsquirrel80

Have a good day tunnelling.. erm, well you know what I mean Hope the wind stays at a sensible level.

That does sound kind of like silverfish Unixgirl, although an inch seems quite big for them! Sounds like the right sort of place for them, they like damp and dark places (we get a few in our bathroom). Don't do any harm though.

Cheery_Daff

silverfish are tiny aren't they? And woodlice certainly aren't an inch long! No idea I'm afraid (sorry that's not much use!)

Uniscots97

They were definitely an inch long (used a ruler), most of the girls freaking out. I'm calm (apart from lifting my bag off the floor), is that growing up in the country and finding pond shrimps in our water supply thats done that?

Karmacat

I quite like woodlice, used to name them and silverfish are okay apart from wiggling quite *fast*

redsquirrel80

Do you get grey millipedes/ centipedes?

Uniscots97

I did wonder that myself Red.

greenval

I'm relieved to hear we all seem to have survived, all intact here and the wins is dropping, thank goodness.Can't wait for finished 'polytunnel photos. You can do it Pippi!