Anyone else have these crawling into your kitchen?

My living room had an infestation of ants after I planted Shasta daisies nearby in the garden. I found their nests underneath the roots. When the plants were removed they left.

Many years ago, when newly married, we disappeared off to America and my mother and stepfather lived in our cottage for a few months. To her dying day DM recounted shovelling wood lice out of the cupboard under the stairs. I do remember them climbing the bedroom walls but being 23 it didn't bother me. When we got back from the USA we modernised and in the process frightened the 'pets' away.

We've always had 'pets' in our house. I like spiders but YD and YGS not so keen - we have to search before bedtime and find them a better home. Current problem is bees - they just come in to die it seems.

getting ready for bed I took a clean nightie from the drawer, shook it out, and a stag beetle dropped onto the bed. I rushed into the bathroom to fetch a wad of loo paper but when I returned it had disappeared. I spent an hour searching and finally went to bed with the light on. In the morning I threw back the duvet and there was a dead stag beetle. Decorators had been painting the house and they told me that all sorts live in the well of windows and when they are opened wide they crawl out!

We have cluster flies that emerge from under the eaves on warm spring days then disappear to return in the autumn. Loads of 'em! Don't think they can be reduced despite our best efforts.

We had ants which came into our front porch then I saw an item online about mixing small amounts of honey, sugar and Borax on a small shallow tray (I used the very bottom of a plastic drinks bottle) and the ants came once and have never come back. Borax is hard to find in the shops so I ordered some from Ebay. I assume the ants take the mixture back to the nest and it kills them.

Do you odd wood louse
Can anyone tell me what their purpose in life is ?

If I shift an armchair in the lounge I will find a couple of dead woodlouse. I don't know why they are only in that room, which is rarely used. My daughter had a much worse experience yesterday. When she opened her front door a mouse was leaping around, trying to run up the walls! It took ages for her husband to get it out through the front door. Luckily she's ok with mice, whereas I'd be checking into a hotel!

I have some strange slug-like creatures that come and eat my food and hibernate in the bedrooms. Oddly enough it seems to coincide with end of term time!

DGS is absolutely fascinated by slugs and snails. We had a whole summer when he was 3, when he kept coming into the house with slugs of all varieties on his outstretched hand to show any handy adult. 'I finding a slug' he would say proudly. The AA man and meter reader dealt with it very well!!

My domestic bug bear is ants, in their battalions, coming into the kitchen. I have tried everything to get rid of them and the only thing that works is a trail of ant powder the complete width of the doorstep and all along the window sill outside.

We had ant problems for a few years, tried lots of stuff, then we found the little round ant stations that Wilko sold, bingo, after a few days, no ants, and none since, and that was a few years ago. We do keep an ant station in the cupboard, though, just in case.
I hate creepy crawlies, but strangely, whilst slugs make me go YUCK!, for some reason snails don`t bother me, even though I know they`re still a slug, but with a shell on it`s back. Maybe it`s the attractive looking shells?
Where we used to live, in Lancashire, we were plagued with earwigs in the summer, double and triple YUCK! We don`t seem to get them here in Lincolnshire.

Shrew?

We had huge horrible slugs coming into the kitchen last year. Their slimy trails led back to under the dishwasher, so we dragged it out, sealed every tiny crack under and behind it, and still they came. Just one or two a night, never advancing more than a couple of feet across the floor. I had to start wearing slippers, which I'd never done, as I had a dread of standing on one in my bare feet, yuck! Then we put copper tape on the floor around the dishwasher and this seemed to work. For two nights afterwards we had a solitary dead slug which had obviously struggled on over the tape despite being electrocuted - the slimy trail was distinctly meandering. Then no more - the message must have gone round!

Dormouse?

Bush baby?

We get all kinds of wildlife in the house here, but funnily enough, never seen a woodlouse.
Last autumn I kept finding some animal droppings in the kitchen, like mouse, but much bigger. One evening this cute little creature appeared , sitting by the rubbish bin. A bit like a hamster, with huge dark eyes. I screamed for husband, he caught it in a net and put it outside.
We still haven't found out what it was. But the droppings stopped.

They are permanent inhabitants of our downstairs loo which is next to the back door. We do find the odd one in the kitchen.
I rehomed a large black beetle that I found wondering across my living room carpet yesterday (not carpet beetle) it's now living in the compost heap

Did you all know that wood lice are the same family as lobsters? (isopod crustacean) And that they have remained in the same form for thousands of years!

I find them quite endearing the way they bumble about their business.

FFS iPad, livestock - not hard is it?

All this little ve stock! Should it not be under "PETS*?

We find odd wood lice but not as many as we have done in other houses and I am very pleased to say that we don't have the amount of spiders here either. Ecstatic would be a better description!
In this house we have problems with ants. Usually it is in ones or twos but we have already had one full scale attempted takeover which we managed to stop with Nippon.
I keep my eyes open for everything and I am a definite squisher and not one who ushers out - with or without a return invitation!

I rescue everything and pop it out not the garden. I certainly DO NOT squash

Woodlice usually like damp dark places but I found one on my kitchen worktop last week! First time in 24 years.

Haven't seen wood lice in the house.

Our main problem is mealworms and the dusty moths that go with them, and the occasional silver fish in the bathroom. Swat and squash is the main method we have used so far.

For the moths, there are special cards you can put up which have a scent which attracts them and then traps them with sticky stuff like fly paper. That must work because the cards are usually full of dead moths after a few weeks.

I am not too bothered about the odd woodlouse but I found a huge slug in my (upstairs) bedroom a few days ago which was a yuk moment ! I can only presume it climbed up the wall and in an open window.
Have you tried beer traps Indinana? They cannot resist a dish filled with cheap beer so a few around your house may help.

Found one in our downstairs loo this morning, lumbering around, so popped him out through the window.

I've never found a way of keeping them out I'm afraid, though we're not overly plagued with them, just the odd one every few months, so not a problem. The problem we have, which is far yukkier (is that a word?!) is slugs getting into our kitchen . We have tried absolutely everything. DH sealed every single tiniest gap he could find where walls meet floor, but it made no difference. Everyone in our terrace gets them and no-one has found a successful way to stop them! They are prolific in our gardens, as are snails, and as a result there are so many things we simply don't bother trying to grow, like hostas, cabbages, lettuce and so on.