Arthropods Daily – Issue No. 338 No. 338 |
Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda. Unlike members of other woodlouse families, members of this family can roll into a ball, an ability they share with the outwardly similar but unrelated pill millipedes and other animals. This ability gives woodlice in this family their common names of pill bugs, roly polies, Butchy-Boys, or doodle bugs. The best known species in the family is Armadillidium vulgare, the common pill...
Ancestry Graph
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„Konny and the blues — Diary of a 26-legged being“
Konny the woodlouse struggles with the challenges of a 26-legged life and talks to a flying visitor about the dangers of climate change.
