Garden pest - black centipede

Last activity 29 March 2011 by lucyanya

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lucyanyaSerial expat22 March 2011 20:16:07

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Otherwise known as the Portugese Black Millipede. Does anybody know an effective way of getting rid of these things, I have a plaque in the garden working its way toward my vegetable garden?

Any treatments must obviously be pet and human friendly.

Many thanks
jules

georgeingozoViP22 March 2011 21:49:34

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stir fry

maltainsideout.com/9862/maltas-house-guests/

rickyViP24 March 2011 11:50:57

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Hi Jules,

I just classified your millipede post in the Everyday life section as we don't have a ' pet ' section and that might not have been appropriate either.

Luckily we don't have them in our present apartment but had them in our previous townhouse.

My remedy was flushing them down the toilet!If you are pro-active you can get them under control after a few months.

I can confirm that they leave a terrible stench, even our cat stopped playing with them so they probably don't have a natural enemy in Malta except us humans.

Regards
Ricky

djinnActive member29 March 2011 16:05:44

maybe you can get advice from : agricoop.com/ sending them an e-mail or visiting one of their stores (there's one on Mdina Rd near Zebbug but there will be others too).

lucyanyaSerial expat29 March 2011 17:06:42

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Thank you, I'll give them a try.

but the stir fry was nice too.....

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