Mary Jo DiLonardo has worked in print, online, and broadcast journalism for 25 years and covers nature, health, science, and animals. The roly-poly, or pill bug, is a terrestrial crustacean that ...

Little Pill Bugs Make a Big Impact. In 2015, a study by Yale and several other universities found that terrestrial crustaceans like pill bugs may play a very real role in controlling the global ...

Little Pill Bugs Make a Big Impact. In 2015, a study by Yale and several other universities found that terrestrial crustaceans like pill bugs may play a very real role in controlling the global ...

Pill bugs have the ability to roll into a ball when disturbed, much like an armadillo... Sow bugs and pill bugs won't damage house SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

Pill bugs — the terrestrial variety found in many backyards is the most common to most people — aren’t really “bugs” or insects at all, but are part of the crustacean family, ...

The terrestrial hermit crabs that are commonly kept as pets are a well-known example of a terrestrial crustacean, ... basketball bug, pill bug, and roly-poly.

SEX LIVES Wolbachia bacteria have done some remarkable things to sex in terrestrial crustaceans commonly called pill bugs — even when the actual bacteria are long gone. Walter Siegmund/Wikimedia ...