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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — 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, ...

Chemical Allows Bugs To Dodge Dead Brethren Reporting in the journal Evolutionary Biology, researchers write that bugs as distantly related as cockroaches, pill bugs and tent caterpillars all ...

B. vaderi is part of the genus of giant isopods called Bathynomus, a group that can reach over 30 centimeters in length and look like overgrown versions of our terrestrial pill bugs, or woodlice ...

Those giant pill bugs crawling on top of and inside that alligator are actually related to the terrestrial, tiny pill bugs you may have played with as a child, ...

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 ...