Wood Lice are Getting into My Brain

Well, with more time to hunt the little fellows it turns out that capturing them has almost no correlation to how many are left.  What does this mean for the size of the overall population?  I must do some biology,  population dynamics here I come.  There appearance on my tape is related to the temperature of the day,  rather strongly.  New Chart - 





Worrisome, since the average daily temperature has been hovering around -5 degrees Celsius.   There are 20 more degrees to go before summer.  Hoping to find temperatures above a certain level do not encourage bugs to enter my basement apartment. 

Bugs Part 3

They are not declining. 



The total capture has just broached 1300 bugs. 
If they were lined up in a row, head to tail?, the line would be 9.1 Meters long...

Bugs Part 2

Perhaps the bug harvest has peaked?  Here is the chart.  My days are from 10pm to 10pm.








Tape methods remain the same from March 31 onward.  Have added more sticky traps in non prime areas to see how many are getting through and to locate alternate source.  So far only cold cellar and crawl space access are proven sources, with >95% harvest occurring in cold cellar area.  Cold cellar is from original foundation of old house, very poorly sealed.

Things That are Gross: Wood lice aka Potato Bugs aka Armadillo Bug aka Pill Bug aka Tiny Land Shrimp

I live in a basement. Assuming that bugs would be slightly more populous down here than above the surface of the world I mentally prepared myself to live here.  For most of the year that works.  Not anymore.  shiver shiver.
I have a woodlouse problem. 

They are a land crustacean which are coming in through the cold cellar in great numbers.  The best solution is to not have holes in your foundation.  It is now spring.  Everything is melting and they are looking for moisture, heat and food.  They will find none of these things outside the cold cellar.  Their natural response to this, unfortunately, is to move faster.

This leads to the invasion of my apartment with these little bastards.  I didn't even know this invasion was occurring until I decided to get clever.  For a few days I was noticing that it was necessary to kill ten or twenty per day, so I went to war with them.   My solution, place packing tape on the ground sticky side up.  When they touch it they stick quite nicely. The first day I put down a little strip and caught 30.  This was gross.  I put down larger strips.  Over the last 3 days I have caught 604 little bastards.

I am making a chart.  Will update.  Need more tape.

Strategies:
Block pinch points - tape strip blocks whole door.
Corners - they hug the walls so place tape at corners right against wall.
Holes - tape near any hole in the baseboard which leads to unknown regions.