how can i get rid of millipedes?

Answer 1

Millipedes require moist habitats and areas of high humidity. It is important to keep the house and outside area as dry as possible.

Millipedes prefer moist, decaying organic matter (similar to forest soil) and shade. Always keep compost piles, grass clippings, rotting wood, leaf piles, plant debris, stones, etc. away from the house foundation as far as practical to reduce moist, damp, dark places where feeding and reproduction can occur. Be sure to check for wood imbedded or buried in the soil.

Also, ivy beds and mulch near the house may become a favored habitat. Rake and remove trash or leaf litter in a strip three feet wide surrounding the house foundation if practical, exposing the soil surface to drying from the air and sunlight. Repair and seal cracks and openings in the foundation wall and around door and window frames with caulking compound and weather stripping.

Properly ventilate basements and subfloor crawl spaces to eliminate excess moisture. Indoors, many will die of desiccation (drying out) and can be collected by broom and dustpan, vacuum cleaner or other mechanical means and discarded

Answer 2

Oh Tracer, I hate millipedes and centipedes, they make my blood an my skin crawl, hehehe. I use to see so much of them when I lived in St. Croix. Sorry hon, I'm not sure how to kill them but I wish I did so the next time I go back to St. Croix I won't have to see them in my path. Do you live in a warm area?

Answer 3

If they're in the garden and eating the babby plants then you can make up a spray of garlic in water with some vegetable oil and treat the at risk plants with that. It repels rather than kills them. Try cleaning up the leaf litter that they are attracted to and hand clearing them if they get to plague proportions. Try to avoid poisons at all costs...they don't know you just want them to take out the pests and they go rampaging through lady bugs, butterflies and bees as well...all of which are friends in the garden.

Answer 4

Amy L has the best idea to rid yourself of them - they don't tend to come near dry places, I know this because the Adelaide hills is full of them (a non-native species that swarms in huge numbers every time it rains) and the only way we could stop them from coming in was to keep the place pretty dry... other than that you'd end up with a couple of hundred in your shower the morning after it rained.

Answer 5

I have a house with basement and i would see these creepy things crawl up to my 2nd floor. I got the regular domestic pest killer spray sold at Home Depot or Lowe's and sprayed it at the bottom of every wall where it meets the floor.

Answer 6

Put on a recorded speech of Al Gore's next to them. They will all run away,

Answer 7

Put them on a treadmill and put it on fast.

Answer 8

That's not very environmentally friendly of you.