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Pillbug

Armadillidium vulgare

Description:

Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda. Unlike members of other woodlouse families, members of this family can roll into a ball, an ability they share with the outwardly similar but unrelated pill millipedes and other animals. It is this ability which gives woodlice in this family their common name of pill bugs or roly polies. The best known species in the family is Armadillidium vulgare, the common pill bug.

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James McNair
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James McNair

Cocoa, Florida, USA

Spotted on Mar 24, 2014
Submitted on Mar 24, 2014

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