Where is woodlice habitat?

Answer 1

You are talking about 'roll-up bugs, right?

Nearly all Woodlice are herbivores and many feed on dead and rotting vegetation, or the microbial flora that infests such material. Ligia oceanica (Common Sea Slater) is the largest species in Britain, up to 30 mms long, it lives only on the seashore and feeds mainly on the brown seaweed Fucus vesiculosus, while Porcellio scaber a common woodland species likes to feed on tree bark but will eat many other things. There are some carnivorous Woodlice, though not in Britain, in the genus Tylos , such as Tylos latreillei a Mediterranean species which lives on the seashore and feeds nocturnally on Sandhoppers.

Philoscia muscorum lives almost entirely on rotting leaves and occupies a similar habitat in both summer and winter, however other species such as Trichoniscus pusillus (Common Pygmy Woodlouse) which share the leaf litter with it during the winter change their habitat during the summer and live almost entirely on and in rotting wood, while Porcellio scaber which lives at the bases of trees during the winter moves higher up into the trees in summer. Not all Woodlice live in woods or Grasslands, Hemilepistus reaumuri lives in arid areas of North Africa and the Middle East where it survives in small family groups in holes dug in the ground these are 5-6 cms wide and can be over 30 CMS deep, digging is stimulated by high temperatures, over 35 C so if the bottom of the hole gets too hot they dig it a bit deeper. Even stranger than this are Platyarthrus hoffmannseggi (Ant Woodlouse) a blind, eyeless white woodlice found in Britain and Europe and Trichoniscus commensalis a pale coloured but still eyed species from New Zealand, both of these live primarily in ant nests feeding on ant droppings and fungi.