As I have the opportunity to visit with folks about the natural world, I love hearing the countless stories of the fond memories that many people recall of where they would interact with nature as ...

Most people assume that pill bugs, which are more colloquially referred to as ‘roly polies,’ are insects. But while you might find these little critters hanging out under rocks with other bugs, they ...

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 ...

Flip a damp log in your backyard, and a crowd of tiny gray roly-polies usually rushes for cover. These pill bugs may look like insects, but they are actually crustaceans, distant relatives of crabs ...

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 ...