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Pill Bug, Potato Bug, Roly Poly

Armadillidium vulgare

Photo by Telse
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Field Notes

Habitat:

Backyard.

Species ID Suggestions

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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. It is this ability which gives woodlice in this family their common name of pill bugs, roly polies, chiggy-wigs or potato bugs. The best known species in the family is Armadillidium vulgare, the common pill bug.

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