The scientific name for a sow bug is Oniscus asellus.
A sow bug is NOT an insect. It is an insopod.
Does light affect the sow bug?
Does light affect the sow bug?
yes
1.sow bugs have a lighter shell and pill bugs have a darker colored shell -josh 2.Pill bugs can roll into a ball whereas Sow bugs cannot :D
Chickens eat anything that moves!
That they easily dry out is the reason why the sow bug needs a moist atmosphere.Specifically, the sow bug is prone to moisture loss. It loses water whenever it eliminates waste. Water also seeps out through its hard outer skeleton, which is called a cuticle. Therefore, sow bugs generally try to spend time under damp, dark litter, logs and rocks even though there is one species, Hemilepistus reaumuri, which is native to the Middle East's and North Africa's deserts.
a millipede
The Sow bug has a pair of appendages, called the uropod's, that project from the rear of the animal. These are a sensory and defensive in function.
recycling of an environment by number of nutrients they have.
That would be the sow, the female of the species.
As far as I know it's female. But in what species?