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Re: [Market-farming] bugs that look like armadillos

From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] bugs that look like armadillos
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:38:33 -0500

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:28:38 -0400, you wrote:

>
>
>I have found small bugs that look like armadillos. They enter the bottom of
>pots and make a small burro to live in. They are gray in color and 1/8th to
>1/4th of an inch long. Can anybody tell me what they are and how to get rid
>of them?
>

I can't tell you how to get rid of the ones you have, but I can tell you
how to prevent it from happening again - put a piece of window screening
over the drainage holes in the bottom of the pots.

I think they are pill bugs.

Pat
-- northern Pennsylvania
"Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of
supply and demand. It is the privilege of human beings to
live under the laws of justice and mercy." - Wendell Berry

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