[AlaninCarlisle]

Last week I was talking to the chiropodist who looks after my poor little feet. He was telling me that he is forever evicting armour-plated beetles from his house, including finding them in his bed. He described them as being black and about half the size of a cockroach. This was strange because each morning I find a couple of tiny little beetles, about 2mm in length on one of my fireplace hearths. They actually seem to come from the back of the fireplace itself. Is this a good year for insect intruders due to the weird weather? Anyone else being similarly invaded?

[snowdrops]

I found a woodlouse wandering down the hall his morning , he was uninvited & refused to pay board & lodging so I evicted him!

[Goosegirl]

We get quite a lot of wood lice here and I'm always finding dead ones along the edges of carpets, and the occasion live one which I swiftly extinguish.

[Debz]

I often find woodlice in my house which amazes me as I'm on the first floor.  Sometimes get the tiny beetles too but not terribly often.

[AlaninCarlisle]

My house is over 250 years old so I expect the occasional wood louse. What is intriguing me is the sudden influx of tiny dark brown beetles that appear to originate from behind the fire-grate. If I thought they were in any way harmful I'd load the grate with pesticide

[Goosegirl]

When I was a child living in a terraced house in Crewe we had silverfish in the fireplace but don't think these are what you have.