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Woodlice!
    #22277685 - 09/23/15 07:38 AM (8 years, 4 months ago)

Even though it's late in the season, the climate near me is pretty warm up until November. I put some spent cakes, and some new pf cakes out in an unused, shady, raised garden with plenty of manure and hay. I've been checking it daily, watering frequently (we've had kind of a drought), and while a few random shrooms have come up, mostly they've had big holes in them- something's been noshing!

At first I thought the culprit was squirrels. But then I noticed lots and lots of roly poley beetles. Finally googled it.

WOODLICE!!! And apparently the kind that don't roll up actually feast on fungus.

Google brought me to this countryfarm page suggesting this tip:
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6) Woodlice: The conditions within a damp cellar, with moist compost in wooden boxes and straw is the ideal habitat for woodlice. Unfortunately, they eat little chunks out of the pinheads and small button mushrooms and these bitten areas only get bigger as the mushrooms grow. The only way to get rid of the woodlice is to trap them and then kill them.

To do this, take a half-boiled potato, boiled in plain water without salt, and then cover the potato with either some straw or some dry moss. This forms a mini-habitat for the woodlice and they can be found eating the potato if you lift the moss or straw. Drop these caught woodlice in water with some kerosene in it.




Anyone else have experience with this? Other suggestions? Am I pretty much SOL? Guess I'll need to go back to growing in my closet for the next batch.

There are some mentions of woodlice in other threads, but they seem pretty old.


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