Arthropods Daily – Issue No. 672 No. 672 |
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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„We received a letter from a reader“
An angry butterfly has written to us. It's about a lack of respect for small beings and the failure to preserve nature and our planet.
