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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maintaining high levels of hydration is essential for terrestrial gill function in pill bugs. The pleopodal lungs create a ...

Most people first notice pill bugs while lifting a flowerpot or turning over a log, then watching small gray roly polies curl into tight balls. Because they share space with ants and beetles, many ...

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 ...

While commonly spotted in harmlessly dwelling in damp dirt or under logs in your yard, pill bugs are an unwelcome visitor ...