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Post by martin on Mar 24, 2007 21:40:56 GMT -5
Are the woodlouse (Cloporte in french) detrimental for CPs? Although they are annoying and ugly, they seem to only eat plants already in decomposition. I am asking this because I have discovered some in my pots.
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Post by lloyd on Mar 24, 2007 22:21:09 GMT -5
I occasionally find them too in my CP pots. They don't seem to cause problems. I don't know how I could get rid of them. They're all over the house and garden.
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Post by pyrgoscper on Mar 25, 2007 3:55:28 GMT -5
lol whenever i find em i just pick em up with tweezers and feed them to my hungr carnivores!! ;D they love em, we call em woodchippers here ive never heard them called wood louse hey you learn something new all of the time
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Post by jay on Mar 25, 2007 9:32:39 GMT -5
They will feed on roots and tender shoots of plants ,
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Post by pyrgoscper on Mar 25, 2007 14:08:11 GMT -5
even better the reason to fed em to the carnivores!
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Post by martin on Mar 27, 2007 20:06:27 GMT -5
I read they feed on dead stuff. I saw some on a exposed D. capensis root above the soil surface. Dont know if they were feeding on the root itself of the decayed stuff on the root surface...
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Post by jay on Mar 27, 2007 20:16:46 GMT -5
THey will feed on seedlings and live plant tissue its not there main food supply but do it none the less , i had a problem with some munching up the roots of and orchid i had with out me knowing till the last min , and have lost many seedlings to there mandibles.
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Post by vraev on Mar 27, 2007 20:21:50 GMT -5
they look pretty harmless though....lol! insects I guess are harmless to us in general....but they are a nuisense (damn right! I spelt it wrong ) ... to PLANTS. AND NOW TO TURN THE TABLES....BRING ON THE CARNIVORES. lol! sorry for bombing the topic ... but yeah! I wouldn't take chances...see if you can get them out martin.
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