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These little grey bugs come out in the summer. Wood lice I think. They do no harm. My girls, and their children later, loved giving them a gentle poke and watching them roll into a ball.
Here we call them bouboulas.
Two ants carrying a cat biscuit. I watched fascinated as these two jiggled the cat biscuit along at a speedy pace. I only just managed to get my phone out and take a pic before they disappeared into a crack in the corner of the terrace.
An excellent bit of team work
The fig tree at the top of the road.
It shed the first crop of small black figs, called brebas, and is now growing the next crop which will be ripe next month.
The figs used to disappear very quickly as soon as they looked soft, picked by passers-by. However this tree was one of those pruned when the road was tarsealed and these branches hanging over the road have been cut right back. The figs are all on the other side of the fence this year. 'Scrumping' them will be difficult.
Do you remember calling those bouboulas 'slaters'? Apparently they are a type of 'prawn' (count their legs). 🤔 Bother about the figs - we never got a look-in at the ones that grew on the beach in front of our apartment. They seemed to vanish while they were still well green.
ReplyDeleteI remember the word slater now. It's been a long time.
DeleteSo greedy some of these people....and out neighbours. Not us of course
Oh...figs... heavenly.
ReplyDeleteNot so keen on woodlice though. We have millions of them here, seething beneath my patio plant pots.
We don't see many woodlice. Just a few of them rolling around. Maybe too hot
DeleteSlaters and pillbugs or even Wood Lice. They like to eat compost and decaying plant material.
ReplyDeleteThe slaters won't find much to eat at the moment then. Too dry
DeleteWhen my children were little and we found these I told them they were called bouboulas. I have heard them called rolly pollies but mostly scatter bugs
ReplyDeleteWe have planted out the fig trees I grew from cuttings. With a bit of luck we will have some to eat soon
Roly poly would be a good name. That's exactly describes them.
DeleteWe called them slaters too, they loved the wood pile. Our figs didn't do so well this year, the birds got most of them. Hopefully you can get a few.
ReplyDeleteThe birds have to be quick here. They might get more of a feed this summer
DeleteI have both Fig trees and Wood Lice. I love fresh Figs, they are the only fruit that is GUARANTEED to crop, and they are always BUG FREE!
ReplyDeleteI've never seen bugs in these figs either but I'm always warned to split them open and look
DeleteWe always called them slaters when we were children (haven't seen one for a long time). They used to live inside our mailbox, and I shudder now to wonder what attracted them to do that!
ReplyDeleteKids like them, adults not so much. Brings back memories of small children
DeleteFresh figs are so delicious!
ReplyDeleteAre the woodlice anything like slaters? They seem to be alot bigger.
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