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Field Notes

Description:

A wood/soil living isopod. Brownish-grey body. 14 total segments.
Small bumps texture its back. Its segments flare out slightly more than rolling isopods.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (10)

Of course. I'm not sure if land isopods are called anything else, actually.
Ok, then you are right because there are many specific species of wood louse or pill bug. But, still a wood louse likely.
Nope. These are different from the rolling isopods, so species identify will be a bit more difficult for me.
Thanks! I was truly fascinated by the version that rolls into a ball as a child. We used to play with them when we found them under logs. Very cool to see. Never realized until I was an adult that they were crustaceans instead of insects.
And, the most fascinating thing about woodlice is that there is a species of spider that only feeds on them. Fascinating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlouse_spider
They are actually a land living crustacean not an insect.
This is some type of wood louse. Did it roll into a ball or not? If it did then it is for sure one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidiidae
We used to call these rolly-pollys when I was a child.

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