Woodlice (Roly-Poly and Pill bug)

To study woodlice feeding behavior, researchers can set up controlled experiments using different food sources, such as decaying plant matter, to observe feeding preferences. By placing woodlice in clear containers with distinct food options, scientists can measure the time spent on each food type and the quantity consumed. Additionally, environmental factors like humidity and light can be manipulated to assess their impact on feeding behavior. Data collected can then be analyzed to draw conclusions about their dietary preferences and ecological roles.

Woodlice primarily feed on decaying organic matter, including leaf litter and decomposing plant material. They do not typically eat fruit in the same way that some other insects do; however, they may occasionally consume overripe or decaying fruits that are part of their natural habitat. Their diet is largely based on the breakdown of plant material, which helps recycle nutrients in the ecosystem.

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They have been around for over 300 million years, making them one of the oldest groups of terrestrial animals. Woodlice are found all over the world, and they occupy a wide range of habitats, from damp forests to urban gardens.

Yes, a woodlouse belongs among the world's herbivores (plant-eaters). The crustacean in question (Oniscidea spp) prefers dead plant matter but may irritate gardeners by preying upon seedlings and strawberries.

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they dont like it

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

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

YES THEY WILL

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.

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.

I think when they are pregnant their tummies turn white.

they are having a little sleep

One likes wood, the other likes hair.

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.

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.

Yes, you can eat woodlice. Disgusting, huh?

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

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).

Gray!

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

But woodlice are gray!

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