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Woodlice (Roly-Poly and Pill bug)

Woodlice are crustaceans with a segmented exoskeleton. There are over 3,000 species of woodlice found worldwide. They are sometimes commonly called roly-poly and pill bug.

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Which side is darker on woodlice the dorsal or ventral surface?

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The dorsal side of an earthworm is darker than the ventral side. This is because of the dorsal blood vessal that runs along the top of the digestive track and just under the skin. There is a ventral blood vessel, but it doesn't lie against the skin, but instead in between the ventral nerve cord and the digestive track.

Do woodlice shed skin?

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They curl up into a ball, exposing only their hard outer shells.

What does a pill bug habitat look like?

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Tomato slices. For water, give them a moist paper towel/rag. For shelter, give them a stone and some dirt under it.

What do baby woodlice look like?

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Hi. A woodlouse is a bit like an earwig but much wider and shorter. It has a segmented body and is generally black. It has 6 legs on the underside of its body.It has grey/brown colours for camouflage (hide from predators) and a hard body for protection. The pill woodlouse rolls into a ball when frightened, for protection against predators.

How many antannae does pillbugs have?

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Like most insects, millipedes have a pair of antennae near the top of the head and a pair of feelers at the bottom of their head.

How do you tell if a roly poly is pregnant?

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I think when they are pregnant their tummies turn white.

How do you stop woodlice eating plants?

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they are having a little sleep

What is the difference between woodlice and headlice?

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One likes wood, the other likes hair.

Will a praying mantis eat a pill bug?

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I happen to have a pet mantis that will eat a pill bug from time to time. However they do not particularly like thes hard shelled insects and will eat softer things if they are not really hungry.

Where is woodlice habitat?

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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.

Can your dog eat woodlice?

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Yes, you can eat woodlice. Disgusting, huh?

How do millipedes and woodlice help in the process of decomposition?

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Termites chew up solid wood and organisms in their guts digest this releasing the nutrients in the wood to the termites.

Do birds eat woodlice?

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yes they do, they include snails, slugs and worms, hedgehogs, toads, frogs, newts and lizards. Little owls and foxes are also known to include them in their diets. Other creatures that share the woodlouse's habitat will also prey on them, none more so than Dysdera crocata, the main woodlouse eating spider (another spider in this genus also exists and also eats woodlice).

When do you know when woodlice having babies?

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Gray!

But there is a type of woodlice called the pink woodlouse so they are pink!

But woodlice are gray!

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How do woodlice adapt to habitat?

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Woodlice have flattened bodies to help them crawl through cracks and narrow spaces, such as those seen in rotting logs and underneath bark. They also have comparatively strong exoskeletons to protect them from predators.

How do you tell if a pill bug is a boy or a girl?

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you can tell how to tell the gender by its under side if it is pale it is a female if it is dark it is a male.