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This ability gives woodlice in this family their common names of pill bugs [1] or roly polies. [2] Other common names include slaters , potato bugs , butchy boys , [ 3 ] and doodle bugs . [ 4 ] Most species are native to the Mediterranean Basin, while a few species have wider European distributions.
Armadillidium vulgare, the common pill-bug, potato bug, common pill woodlouse, roly-poly, slater, doodle bug, or carpenter, is a widespread European species of woodlouse. It is the most extensively investigated terrestrial isopod species. [ 2 ]
Armadillidium (/ ɑːr m ə d ɪ ˈ l ɪ d i ə m /) is a genus of the small terrestrial crustacean known as the woodlouse. Armadillidium are also commonly known as pill woodlice, leg pebbles, pill bugs, roly-poly, or potato bugs, and are often confused with pill millipedes such as Glomeris marginata.
Oniscidea (commonly known by a variety of names including woodlouse, pillbug, slater, roly-poly, potato bug, et al.) serve as hosts. Infection is associated with decreased responsiveness in the host, increased mortality and the emergence of an iridescent blue or bluish-purple colour due to the reflection of light off a paracrystalline ...
Jam roly-poly, a traditional British pudding; Roly Poly (sandwich store chain), a chain of sandwich shops in the United States "Roly Poly" (Bob Wills song) "Roly-Poly" (T-ara song) Roly-Poly (game), an ancestor of Roulette; Roly Poly (horse), thoroughbred racehorse; The Roly Poly Man, a close associate of the Hurdy Gurdy Man in the 1968 song by ...
Pill millipedes are any members of two living (and one extinct) orders of millipedes, often grouped together into a single superorder, Oniscomorpha.The name Oniscomorpha refers to the millipedes' resemblance to certain woodlice (Oniscidea), also called pillbugs or "roly-polies".
The lyrics are an absurdist celebration of fish heads, describing them in the high-pitched chorus as "roly poly" and delicious to eat. The verses describe various things they (mostly) cannot do such as play baseball , wear sweaters , play the drums , and drink cappuccino in Italian restaurants with oriental women.
Osamu Sato (佐藤 理, Satō Osamu, born April 14, 1960 in Kyoto, Japan) is a Japanese digital artist, photographer, and composer.His first work was the ambient music album, Objectless (1983). [1]