Dust bunnies really do exist ............. or ........

[aernethril]

You know when you've been lazy about the housekeeping when you look down and see what at first looks like a pale injured butterfly crawling across the carpet but it turns out to be.........................

One's very own house elf

[saasher2012]

Is it a little wood louse?. Poor little thing that must be the equivalent of carrying an oak tree on your shoulders, you ought to attach a duster to it's twig, late spring cleaning sorted!. lol.

[aernethril]

It is indeed, but I couldn't see it until I'd taken the photos.

Not so little either but viewing it from the top I could only see the pale, tattered wing-shape of it's luggage.

I really must do some late spring cleaning - shift as much of the furniture as I can and give everything a good clean.

Did you know that wood lice, in the house, all congregate in certain areas under furniture - usually at the corners - where you then find a woodlice graveyard?

[saasher2012]

lol. When he's finished send him round to me, no I didn't know that , it's something else I learnt, we always call them wood pigs lord knows why unless it's a variation on hedge pigs ( hedgehogs). I rather like them along with Silver fish.

[**towery**]

i remember an episode of malcolm in the middles where his mum lois fell asleep on the floor at the side of her bed,  as she breathes a ball of fluff is rolled  to and fro

eventually she sucks an orange sized fluff in her mouth  lol

[saasher2012]

Yuck! lol.

[chickengrandma-2008]

YUKK!  If her bugs are that filthy think what the rest of the house must be like!  

(only joking, no offence meant!   )

[stan3502]

Lol CG ,.......................... wonders if its dark in aernethril's house with the grimy windows no chance of having a peek in from the garden though so cheap way to deter burglars if they can't see what you've got ...................................(also only kidding )

[aernethril]

[wskneil]

There are loads of regional names for them.
Cheesy-bugs or Cheeselogs,Slaters, Gramersows or gramfers,Chisel bobs,Woodpigs or timberpigs,Monkey peas or peaballs ,Pishamares, Chuggie pigs, chuggy-pegs or chucky pigs, Crunchy bats,Coffin cutters,Granny greys, Billy buttons and Parson pigs for a start!

[saasher2012]

WOW! Do carry on I love them! lol.

[captainbovine]

monkey peas???? how the hell did anyone come up with that!! it's hilarious....

I have millions of the little boogers in our garden, no point worrying about them,

btw...does anyone have a way of getting rid of earwigs besides the clay pot on a cane with straw in it thing?

[peteryola]

It's a hermit woodlouse!

[**towery**]

we have always called them  slateybettles

and capt   i  think  fires may get rid of earywiggies

[aernethril]

earwigs are the bane from the devil - nasty blighters and there's been a plague of them our way this year.

[saasher2012]

There ya go CB set fire to your garden & house, result! lol. joking apart it does seem to be an earwig &.ant problem this year with the hot weather!

[ed_blackadder_1]

Phew finally made a cuppa whilst I was waiting to get on this thread.

We call them chiggy pigs here. I have only seen a few less than normal. We had flying ants everywhere yesterday.

[wskneil]

Got me looking into woodlice now. The ones we have around here don't roll up into a ball when prodded, like the ones when I was a kid in Essex. Apparently the ones that can roll up are members of the family Armadillidiidae... now all Ive got to do is work out how to pronounce it!

[aernethril]

What do they call the ones that don't roll up then?

Stiffadillidiidae?

[saasher2012]

Inflexibledilladildae?