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I just saw the tragic and harrowing sight of a woodlouse scurrying away from the flames in the woodburner. It crept out of sight so I couldn't fish it out or give it a quick death. Doesn't happen often but the forlorn sight really affects me. (Well, for 20 minutes it does.)
I'm happy to put Raid down for ants and cheerfully eat bits of mammal, why does this situation bother me so much?
No idea, but if you've got a Morso Squirrel then your mate probably just crawled out of one of the cracks in the back 🙂
blimey. its not that uncommon a sight, you must be quite troubled, poor soul!
For me today the critter from the wood pile by the stove was, as usual, a queen wasp. #14 of the burn season. as per the first 13, dispatched with a rolled up newspaper I'm afraid. With 2 toddlers in the house i don't take chances....I would do the same if it were just me though.
I have a Morso Squirrel and I concur it's needed a lot of attention and DIY fixing.
5 queen wasps for me this year.
Wood is stored in the shed here. As I load up the wood basket to carry a load in I hit each piece hard against the wall to knock things (bark, moss, dust, critters etc) off the logs. Seldom if if ever have bugs as a result.
Ambrose
To be fair, they taste like prawns once cooked, so would be a shame to waste it.
I typically bang pairs of logs together as I chuck them in the basket outside which gets rid of critters. I find a lot of queens wasps outside in the pile but they rarely make it into the house. Two this year. Unfortunately I also have a two year old and he got stung this year when he trod on one of the aforementioned two wasps. At two he's been stung more than myself and wife put together.
I mercilessly kill the queen wasps on sight.
In the meantime, what tyres for a hearse for a cremated woodlouse???
More importantly... What's been happening to your morso squirrel stoves? I've got one and apart from replacing fire bricks and baffle plates it's been faultless...
If you don't like wood lice don't Google "giant isopods"
Wood wasps go in the fire.
I camped on a beach on the west coast of Ireland with some friend many moons ago. There were swarms of those little sand hoppers - looked like shifting sands in the desert. After sundown we lit a little campfire to cook some veggie chilli - and as the only lightsource the they all made a bee-line for it. They pop like popcorn. And turn pink like prawns. It was too dark to know how many we were eating.
Doesn’t happen often but the forlorn sight really affects me.
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