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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 (/ 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.
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 ]
Roly poly or Roly Poly may refer to: An isopod crustacean of the family Armadillidiidae, also known as a pill bug; A pill millipede (unrelated to the pill bug) Syzygium alliiligneum, a plant from Queensland, Australia; Roly-poly toy, a toy that rights itself when pushed over; Jam roly-poly, a traditional British pudding
Additionally, pill bugs have a thorax consisting of 7 body segments, 5 abdominal segments, and a pleotelson, while Glomeris millipedes lack a visually defined thorax and have 12 body segments total. While the uropods of pillbugs are relatively quite small, flipping a pill bug over will reveal the small uropod overlapping the pleotelson. [ 40 ]
Pollie Pi moves into Polieville, meets Olie and Billy, and they immediately fall in love with her because they were shot by the cupid-like love bug; Olie counts down seven minutes as he tries to get ready for a baseball game; Olie has to wear a new suit, but he doesn't like the way it looks because he's afraid his guests, Billy and Pollie, will ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Parasites of crustaceans" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.