Wood Louse On Impatiens

[rkp52]

I have wood louse on my impatiens how can I get rid of them

[mallyh]

put wood louse powder around them

[woofgang]

do you mean pill bugs? They only eat dead stuff and are harmless on plants. If they are on plants indoors, take them outside, take them out of the pots and give them a good shake. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/make-female-pill-bugs-just-add-bacterial-genes

[puzzled54]

They eat my strawberries!

[Khandro]

//They eat my strawberries!//
I don't think so, look elsewhere for the culprit.

[Khandro]

'Woodlice eat rotting plants, fungi and their own faeces, but they don’t pee! They get rid of their waste by
producing strong-smelling chemical called ammonia, which passes out through their shells as a gas.
After mating, females carry their fertilised eggs in a small brood pouch under their bodies. The young hatch
inside the pouch and stay there until they are big enough to survive on their own.
A common woodlouse can live for three-four years. Apart from man, its main predators are centipedes,
toads, shrews and spiders. '

[douglas9401]

And me with the Deathlac spray.

[woofgang]

they do eat ripe strawberries but are attracted by the dead leaves, straw dressing and so on.

[TonyV]

without looking at RHS site, I would spray with dilute washing up liquid.

[TonyV]

Or use some ant powder.

[Khandro]

Woof; //they do eat ripe strawberries// Have you any hard evidence of that? - I don't think so.

One of God's little creatures, they were here long before homo sapiens and they will be here long after we've gone --- which won't be long, btw.

[woofgang]

Khandro the RHS says they do. I don't kill them or any other garden resident, without due cause and they are welcome to their share of my strawberries. Notice I advised the OP to shake them off the impatiens and not to commit pillbugicide. https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=723

[TonyV]

Khandro think I will be long gone before them, they may enjoy some meat.

[puzzled54]

They definitely do eat strawberries, I shake them out of holes they have made in the fruit