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Usually gray, sometimes black to nearly yellow. Smooth and straight-sided.
Just wandering the patio as I was sitting.
This Pill Bug, Woodlouse or Roly-Poly is ...
Small mother about 1 cm carrying a pouch of eggs on its ventral/bottom side. ...
Blank insect that rolls up into a ball when threatened; 3 mm
Red cephalothorax, orange legs, pale tan abdomen. Huge chelicerae
It is a very small insect and it lives by dirt.
-Bluish-Grey -Exoskeleton helps them roll up into ball -Head, abdomen, ...
Rolls into perfect ball when disturbed. Feeds on decaying organic material.
the pillbugs of the family Armadillidiidae, also called "potato bugs", or ...
Grey segmented body that flares out on the lower edges, looks like armour, ...
Dark segmented insect that can roll into a ball as a defense
A sow bug or woodlouse is a small land arthropod (jointed-legged animal). They ...
This blue Roly-Poly, Pill Bug or Woodlouse ...
almost perfect sphere as a defensive mechanism, hence some of the common names ...
. Armadillidium are also commonly known as pill woodlice, pill bugs or