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Common Shiny Woodlouse

Oniscus asellus

Spotting Image 1

Description:

Woodlouse in different colour forms

Habitat:

Urban garden

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3 Comments

loarie
loarie 7 years ago

happy to help - these are just starting to invade California where I'm located - http://www.inaturalist.org/observations?...

AlbertKang
AlbertKang 7 years ago

Thanks, @loarie for correcting the ID :)

loarie
loarie 7 years ago

These are Common Shiny Woodlouse (Oniscus asellus) - a virus causes them to get bright blue like the one on the right

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AlbertKang
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AlbertKang

Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Spotted on Oct 14, 2016
Submitted on Oct 17, 2016

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