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" Lawn Shrimps " ?!

  • 03-07-2019 8:58pm
    #1
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭


    :eek: Got me beat! I've just come across this bizarre post, on another forum. Guy has a background in Pest Control. But, has no idea what the hell these things are.

    He's named them " Lawn Shrimps " (for lack of any better ideas) and reckons they might be some foreign thing, come over ~ to england ~ in plants. Says he has a garden full and they're now getting in the house!

    No idea what that coin is, by the way :(

    Lawn-Shrimp.jpg


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  • #2
    tedpan
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    Stigura wrote:
    No idea what that coin is, by the way


    That's known as a penny :D


  • #3
    scuby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 908 ✭✭✭scuby


    Sand hoppers?
    Usually out at night, was garden near beach?


  • #4
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭Stigura


    tedpan wrote: »
    That's known as a penny :D

    :o Bugger. Didn't know that. Thought they'd done away with them.

    scuby wrote: »
    Sand hoppers?
    Usually out at night, was garden near beach?

    Agreed! It does look like a Sand Hopper, doesn't it?

    No idea where this guy lives. But, an invasion of sand living creatures? Across his lawn and into his house?!

    Just doesn't add up, does it? Like; Why?


  • #5
    tedpan
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    Stigura wrote:
    Agreed! It does look like a Sand Hopper, doesn't it?


    It looks horrible!


  • #6
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭Stigura


    Well, imagine them creeping across ye lawn and invading ye home, like a microscopic Manson Family? :eek:

    I'll keep my eye on that thread. See what else emerges. Keep ye informed.


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  • #7
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Arcitalitrus sylvaticus. Lawn Shrimps. Now found in the UK, as an accidental introduction. Also called Landhoppers.


  • #8
    scuby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 908 ✭✭✭scuby


    https://hortographical.wordpress.com/tag/lawn-shrimp/


  • #9
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,576 ✭✭✭Stigura


    Excellent! Thanks! So, in one day we've gone from Apodemus sylvaticus to Arcitalitrus sylvaticus? Ye couldn't make this up! :D

    I must have misinterpreted his original post then? Seems he Knew what they were. Perhaps just wondering who else was finding them?

    Fair play to Scuby too ;)


  • #10
    beertons
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    Mad. Could have come about from sand being applied to lawn to help drainage?


  • #11
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    beertons wrote: »
    Mad. Could have come about from sand being applied to lawn to help drainage?

    They have nothing to do with Sand. Sylvaticus refers to woodland. They are landhoppers, or woodhoppers as opposed to Sandhoppers. They feed on detritus and leaf litter. They came in with plant material in pots.


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  • #12
    recedite
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    Seems like it occupies a similar ecological niche to the woodlouse.


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