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Is anyone else being completely overrun with woodlice?

9 years ago

I've always had a sowbug here and there, especially in cool and damp weather, but for some reason this year has been completely different. I can't tell if they're actually juveniles or just a smaller type of woodlouse, but every scrap of soil in my garden is infested with these small sowbug-looking insects that eat the insides of my bulbs leaving just the papery skin, mow down seedlings leaving not a trace behind, and just generally make me uncomfortable by just how many of them there are. They are in my beds, my pots... anywhere that isn't the rock-hard, dry-as-a-bone brick clay that is our native soil. They didn't go away even during the height of our


summer. When I water, the entire surface of my soil starts to move -- it's like a horror movie! I've attached a picture of the soil in one of my beds right after I gave it a sprinkle. 13 circled that I could see in the picture, though I know there were more and it's just a bad picture. I've tried sprinkling Sluggo Plus, which claims to kill sowbugs and pill bugs, but it doesn't seem to do much. Any advice? Anyone else feeling my pain?

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