Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most isopods, including pill bugs, have 7 pairs of legs. Utilizing pleopodal lungs creates a permanent respiratory constraint on ...

With winter rains, Bay Area pill bugs are out in force. Fortunately, they're one of our most beloved "bugs." Pill bugs. Doodle bugs. Potato bugs. Wood Shrimp. Whatever you call them, there's something ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conglobation protects certain pill bugs and also helps them retain moisture. Some predators have adapted to have specialized ...

Summer is almost here, and that means the great kid migration to outside will start soon. Most kids spend many summer days discovering the outdoors at some point in their lives. One can’t discover the ...

This woodlouse, also known as a pill bug or roly-poly, is demonstrating how the species can roll its armored body into a nearly impenetrable sphere when it’s threatened. This woodlouse, also known as ...

A couple of years ago, my wife and I had a garden built in our back yard. It runs along our fence and is approximately 84 feet long and 8 feet deep with a fruit tree at each end. We had great success ...

Most isopods, including pill bugs, have 7 pairs of legs. Utilizing pleopodal lungs creates a permanent respiratory constraint on land. Scientists discovered crustaceans successfully adapted to dry ...

When pill bugs roll into a tiny ball, the act looks far simpler than it actually is. Known as conglobation, a pill bugs’ “ball” involves a full-body engineering trick designed to protect them from ...