How to Get Rid of Pill Bugs (Wood Lice, Roly-Polies)
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- Опубліковано 5 сер 2024
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In contrast to their name, pill bugs aren’t insects or arachnids, or any kind of bug pest. They’re actually crustaceans that have adapted to live on land. They’re more closely related to lobsters and shrimp, and they even have gills! Pill bugs will grow to be about ¼ to ¾ of an inch in body length. Pill bugs have 7 pairs of legs, a pair of antennae, and they’re usually bluish-gray to black in color. Their bodies are ovular shaped, and they can curl up into a round ball when disturbed. Other names for pill bugs include ‘wood lice,’ ‘wood shrimp,’ and ‘doodlebugs.’
Pill bugs thrive in damp, dark areas that provide enough dead plants or moisture. A pill bug’s diet mostly consists of decaying plant matter, or if there’s none around, they’ll eat newly sprouted grass or plant seedlings. These habitats are found underneath fallen leaves, rocks, logs, moist soil in fields, grassy areas, gardens, plant beds, potted plants, and ornamental landscaping.
To eliminate pill bugs from your property, you’ll need to spread a granular insecticide over your lawn, followed up with a liquid broadcast treatment. For your granular application, we recommend you use Bifen LP Insecticide Granules. Bifen LP is a ready-to-use insecticide made with bifenthrin that controls many types of pests, including pill bugs. In turf, you’ll apply this product with a push spreader at the labeled rate of 4.6 pounds per 1,000 square feet of treatment area. You can also use a hand spreader for smaller applications.
Once you’ve finished your Bifen LP application, it will need to be watered in to be activated and pushed into the soil. You can do this with your liquid broadcast treatment. For you’re liquid application, we recommend you use a liquid insecticide concentrate with 7.9% bifenthrin. You’ll apply this product at a rate of 0.25 to 0.5 fluid ounces per 1,000 square feet of treatment area. We recommend you use a 20-gallon hose-end sprayer since you’ll be making a large volume broadcast application.
Since pill bugs require some degree of moisture to live, there are several things you can do to make your property less inviting for pill bug activity. Start by removing pill bug harborages by raking away fallen leaves and picking up other debris on the ground. Next, you may need to start mowing your grass shorter, trimming overgrown shrubbery, and trimming back overgrown tree branches. This will reduce shade on your lawn, encouraging more water evaporation. To stop pill bugs from invading your home, you’ll need to seal and close any potential entry points you may have found. Tight cracks and crevices may be filled with caulk, while larger voids may need to be stuffed with copper mesh. You may also need to repair any torn screens or affix brush or rubber seals onto doors and windows. Finally, you’ll need to follow up on your granular and liquid insecticide applications with timed retreatments. Bifenthrin-based products like Bifen LP leave a lasting residual that will control pests for up to 90 days. We recommend you make treatments quarterly for year-round control.
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I have to "broadcast" the treatment across the lawn?
My daughter lets them crawl on her and she says they tickle her hands. I’ve never seen them eat food in the gardens. Always hiding under brick 🧱
They eating my new plants. Couldn't figure out why grass wasn't growing in that patch
They attacked my bean sprouts and even ate my marigolds. I caught them in the act.
@@buckfitch1536 decimated my marigolds 😢
They are very cute...
I live in rural area and have an endless supply of these things. Each morning I have to vacuum several hundred of them off of the bottom of my pool. At times they look like lemmings headed across the deck.
*E A T. T H E M*
They love night swims in my pool too. It’s so annoying. I’d rather kill time all.
They're terrestrial shrimp wow
I have yet to find a SINGLE hose end sprayer that has any gallon rating. Not a single one.
And none allow you to adjust the application rate. All or none so to speak.
Will that poison harm an organic garden? Bees? Beneficial insects?
What about grasshoppers?
Am I the only one that calls them boat builders
Pill bugs are so cute!
So.... i can substitute shrimp with these little bastards
Pill bugs can decimate blooms and fern fronds and even dusty miller that deters rabbits. The problem is excessive moisture…heavy rain fall over a period of time, heavy use of water sprinkler systems. Heavy use of insecticides is not the answer as this destroys valuable insects and the millions of organisms that make up soil.
Check with a county agricultural agent or master gardener organization in your area for methods to use that are not destructive to everything.
Pill bugs are cute and freindly i literaly wrote a paragraph about keeping them pets
I love rolls Polly's so I'm not doing that
Then cook and eat them,thay killeat my plants
You won't have any plants left.
Planted six cucumber seedlings and wondered why they weren't thriving. Damn those roly polys...they have been eating the roots.... Didn't know they were pests because I've never had any problems with other plants...
they are not pests. they eat only decaying plants and organisms, they are more of natural sanitars, since they eat ground fungus which is not good for us in big quantities. so probably your soil isn's that good which causes the damage to cucumbers and causes rolly-pollies to eat fungus or other dead roots there as the result.
@@grinkevychfalse. They do eat seedlings quickly and can destroy a young crop of multiple varieties. Get them under control fast
1. They do eat plants: leaves, flowers, berries, roots, buds, shoots. It hurts to see them destroying plants in no time 😢😢😢 They can do a significant damage in one night.
2. I can't see any benefits from them in my garden. None.
Pill bugs aren't pests there actually good for the soil and break down toxic material in the soil including heavy metals there's absolutely no reason to destroy them they can be managed through clearing areas around gardens were you dont want them turning your yard or garden into a toxic waste dump and then years later you can't understand why you have cancer isn't the answer .
it dosen't work😡🥀🚺
Pests???? Are you mad lol, they're one of the most important arthropods on the planet 😆If you don't want them, send them to me lol
They eat your plants!
man get to the point!
Theyre just potatoes
Sowbugs and pillbugs general do little or no harm to plants. In large numbers they may feed on plants at ground level or on small roots, but the only real threat they present is that the feeding locations can provide openings for bacteria or fungi which could result in rot setting in.
but they actually eat that fungi!
@@keravesque Yes They Do. 🧐
@@rodtexas642 as I wrote to another commenter, I have seen suggestions that they actually are helpful in reducing carbon dioxide emissions because of their diet, and that they may be helping to combat the effects of climate change 😳
And yet I'm tiered of always cleaning there dead out of my garage and basement; and having swarms of them on my patio and drive way. The war with them is on.
That's a crock!!! They wiped out my entire cucumber plantings!!!!!
dont, they rejuvenate soil and can ever get rid of radiation in soil. if you think theyre pests then you might want to have you soils tested for heavy metals and radiation
): I thought they were cool ):
they are! they eat ground fungi that produces carbon dioxide as temp increases. It's speculated they are helping to lesson the effects of rising global temperatures
They are when they are not literally eating every single plant out of hundreds of plants. I want then gone from my garden but they re welcome to the rest of the place, and there is lots of places here to eat fungo and do their thing. I do however want a solution that doesn’t require PPE like maskes and special clothing. Uggg maybe they taste good since they are related to lobsters and shrimp.
They are cool and cute this guy is just a hater of the little bug.
They are at nature of gardens but not in your house because I had like 28 of them and kill them at my house but I don't kill them at nature or somewhere else
Lmao if you have a problem with pill bugs that’s a you problem.
Not pests👎
isopods or 'rolly pollies' are beneficial for gardens GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFy
Wow… can’t believe someone would post such evil and label these as pests…. You’d have to poison the whole earth to get rid of these. It’s just plain wrong, they literally just eat dead leaves and the smallest of seedlings, if youre a gardener just mulch your seedlings with dead leaves and they’ll never touch your seedlings. It makes me so angry how committed some people are to produce content that’s literally ruining the planet for no reason 😪
I’m having a huge problem with them right now eating all my new sprouts that are popping up and I have a layer of leaf mulch that they seem to just hide in and come out at night and reek damage 😫😫
@@mcchoa24 I know what you mean. They even eat larger leaves on my plants on my Brussels Sprouts. They are getting munched. Get some clear plastic cups and cut the bottom out and dig them in around your seedlings. They cannot climb plastic.
No, they don’t . They destroyed two entire vegetable beds of mine .
Rubbish, they do a lot of harm and don't just decaying matter. The go for larger, established plants, and also transmit diseases from plant to plant! VERY DISTRUCTIVE!
@@Juancantor76 Very true! They have killed several of my young banana plants! As soon as you water the plant, they are all around the trunk of the banana, and one fine day, you find the trunk destroyed completely at ground level! What do you use for their control? Nowadays, I am trying diatomaceous earth.
You should not get rid of them! They are great for the soil and removing heavy metals. STOP
Really? Where do they put those heavy metals?