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Woodlouse

Armadillidium vulgare

Photo by LauraMaria
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Field Notes

Notes:

Found this one crawling along a path near my home. I was brought up in Canada, and we called them "pill bugs" but that doesn't seem to be a common name in the UK. People here call them "roly polies", which is a far more amusing name!

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PublishedMay 8, 2011

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