[jnellis]

Who is that predator? I wish to hire them desperately. We had an agreement that the federation would stick to just the dead material but there are obviously some free thinking factions at work. Now I'm growing lettuce as just the distraction crop for them (and the slugs) to protect the other youngling starts and strawberries.

[curtisblaine]

Dysdera Crocata is a spider literally evolved around killing and eating roly-poly. As they need to pierce the roly-poly's exoskeleton, their bite is painful (but harmless) for humans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlouse_spider

[Eddy_Viscosity2]

This sounds like an escalation I've heard before:

There was an old lady who swallowed a cow; I don't know how she swallowed a cow! She swallowed the cow to catch the goat, She swallowed the goat to catch the dog, She swallowed the dog to catch the cat, She swallowed the cat to catch the bird, She swallowed the bird to catch the spider That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her, She swallowed the spider to catch the roly-poly; I don't know why she swallowed a roly-poly – perhaps she'll die!

[jnellis]

I've seen this guy by the shed, thanks. I'll ask him if he's busy this summer.

[_akhe]

On lice/louse:

When it's plural as in "lice" it's an obvious problem to be eradicated.

But why in the singular form of "louse" do I suddenly imagine a Fantastic Mr. Fox character? A little guy holding a tiny briefcase waiting for the bus in Louse Land.

It should be the opposite, because looking at lots of them is like "Ahh rolly pollies! Cool!"

But if you zoom in on one's face... you notice some ancient trilobyte Alien 3 finger fangs rapidly shoving microbes into its pie hole, who knows what kind of monster this thing is to all the hapless beings down on its level.

The spider doesn't care about any of this shit, he's just like: "Not in my house, louse." before spinning him up in his butt threads and draining his blood like a literal vampire.

Nature is awesome.

[mythrwy]

Chickens love rolly pollies.