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Notes:

Looks like a millipede or some such creepy crawly. ID appreciated.

1 Species ID Suggestions

Common pill-bug
Armadillidium vulgare Armadillidium vulgare


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5 Comments

chesterbperry
chesterbperry 10 years ago

Yes they are James, but this appears to be a pill millipede, an unrelated organism with similar form.

JamesHart
JamesHart 10 years ago

Pill bugs are the same as rollie pollies

chesterbperry
chesterbperry 10 years ago

I would agree with that ID Vishal, I had never heard of pill millipedes, learn something new everyday. :)

Vishal
Vishal 10 years ago

@Chester
Elsewhere (on a different forum) the above bug has been suggested to be a pill
millipede (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pill_millip...) which are apparently very similar and can be confused with pill bugs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidi...).
I am inclined to the pill millipede classification based on the look of the segments. Let me know what you think.

chesterbperry
chesterbperry 10 years ago

Looks like what we call "pill-bugs", they roll into a ball when threatened. They are a crustacean in the family Armadillidiidae, sorry can not help with genus or species.

Vishal
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Vishal

Maharashtra, India

Spotted on Aug 13, 2006
Submitted on Sep 5, 2013

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