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Woodlice are tiny, don’t bite, move slowly and are generally unthreatening. They are part of biological processes essential to life. So what’s not to like?
Woodlouse spiders have been to bite humans if they are being handled. On The Sun, we wrote some other explainers about spiders, and how to prepare your home ahead of spider season.
Put before a predator, one of the defensive behavior terrestrial crustaceans like the Common rough woodlouse can exercise is feigning death. Personality is argued to influence the duration and ...
Woodlice may look like insects but are actually isopod crustaceans related to crabs and lobsters. There are thought to be about 3,500 species of woodlouse in the world, 35 to 40 of which can be ...
However, the scientific community does not refer to this animal as a Roly-Poly or any of the other endearing names, but rather as the Common Pill Woodlouse (Armadillidium vulgare).
Scientists have identified a woodlouse relative — a 10-inch-long, creamy yellow critter called Bathynomus yucatanensis from deep in the Gulf of Mexico.