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RE: Getting Down and Dirty in One of My Favourite Parts of the Garden
I'll just copy from naturalnews.com for the sake of time:
One very unique quality that these crustaceans possess is their ability to safely remove heavy metals from soil. For this reason, they are an important tool for cleaning up soil contaminated with pollutants like lead, cadmium and arsenic. In coal spoils and slag heaps, pill bugs come in handy. They take in heavy metals like lead and cadmium and crystallize these ions in their guts. The heavy metal toxins are then made into spherical deposits in the mid gut. With this special cleanup property, pill bugs survive where most creatures can't, in the most contaminated sites. The magic of the pill bugs helps reestablish healthy soil and prevents toxic metal ions from leaching into the groundwater. This means pill bugs are also protecting well water from becoming contaminated while stabilizing soils.
I always used to hate them for eating my young plants but now see them quite differently!
the world is full of leeches and other like minded vampirical 'symbiotic relations' between living creatures and plants of all kinds. There is always a reason behind everything (not that I could name one right off the bat though). Probably even mosquitos somehow have a decent job in here.
Absolutely.. everything has a purpose and works in a beautiful connected network... but.. damn! Mozzies!!!
Well there is your hand, and there is the mozzie, if that ain't a connection, then what is?
It's like love at first sight.