Woodlice infestation

jackanory

Can anyone help? We have been plagued with woodlice since we moved into our house 18 months ago. Tonight, however, on the outside brick walls - some is part rendered there were hundreds. Can anyone explain why? and how do I get rid of them?:(

Gloomendoom

jackanory wrote: »

Can anyone help? We have been plagued with woodlice since we moved into our house 18 months ago. Tonight, however, on the outside brick walls - some is part rendered there were hundreds. Can anyone explain why? and how do I get rid of them?:(

Woodlice like damp. Get rid of the damp and they will go away.

They are harmless BTW

tanith

This happened to us once , they literally were crawling up the front door and walls by the thousand, we never knew why but we kept spraying with a crawling insect powder we got from Homebase along the bottom of the wall and eventually they were gone..

jackanory

Thanks for that, house doesn't appear damp, the walls they were all over were south facing so technically warmer and drier.

Brian_The_Lion

anyone know if its the same principle to get rid of carpet beetles? We keep getting them every couple of weeks in different rooms, sometimes fully grown ones and sometimes their larvae crawling around

Spudsey

I have them crawling out from the bottom corner of my patio doors as the wood is rotten. We are saving up to get this replaced but in the meantime have trapped them with tape which is very mean of me and isn t really stopping them from getting in in the first place. I can actually hear the tape moving at the moment.

NeverInDebt

Woodlice they like damp dark places I dont think they touch wood unless its going rotten. If you got some rot and plan to replace soon you scope some of it it if holes isnt too big and squeeze some silicon from a mastic gun in there temporarily

phill99

Spudsey wrote: »

I have them crawling out from the bottom corner of my patio doors as the wood is rotten. We are saving up to get this replaced but in the meantime have trapped them with tape which is very mean of me and isn t really stopping them from getting in in the first place. I can actually hear the tape moving at the moment.

Why have you dug up a thread from a year ago to make a comment which adds nothing to the party?

Spudsey

NeverInDebt wrote: »

Woodlice they like damp dark places I dont think they touch wood unless its going rotten. If you got some rot and plan to replace soon you scope some of it it if holes isnt too big and squeeze some silicon from a mastic gun in there temporarily

Thanks. We ripped the lino back last week and discovered a rotten floorboard, now replaced. Still got some teeny ones coming in as the wood around the patio doors is rotten, have temporarily put some new wood in places and blocked the entrance from outside until we can get some new patio doors.