Don't Mind a Woodlouse

But not when I find one swimming in the bowl of Cornflakes and Alpine Strawberries that i'm halfway thru eating

 

A bit of extra protein?!

 

......was it doing the backstroke?

 

They are just a land dwelling shrimp, and you eat fish don't you? (though granted, probably not raw).

 

On a more serious note, since Bill Odie explained how they do no harm and only eat rotten wood, I don`t mind them either, in fact a lot of insects etc don`t worry me anymore, after watching Spring/Autumn watch and the like, the only thing I will not touch still are slugs, can`t get over my dislike of them.

 

Yes but after they've mined out a rotten channel in the wood, air and moisture get in to accelerate the rotting on the rest of the wood. Probably they don't actually harm wood that isn't rotting already, but they can greatly accelerate the process once its started. They are after all in the group of 'primary decomposers', the group of organisms that break down wood into the next stage (poo) ready for secondary decomposers to (mostly bacteria) to get it down to its mineral state ready for plants to eat it

 

I think they are kind of cute. Like miniature Armadillos.

 

Or live

 

Sometimes Ziggy you really do come over as a whimp.


I think you need to go on that jungle programme in Oz

I usually try to avoid eating them, ....I must admit.

 

Worst of all, a half one

 

Caught Willow chewing something whilst holding half a Woodlouse when she was a baby.

 

Now you tell her

 

Extract from the entry in Wikipedia:

Despite being crustaceans like lobsters or crabs, woodlice are said to have an unpleasant taste similar to "strong urine"

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To know that they must have both eaten woodlice and drunk strong urine.