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Philoscia muscorum, the common striped woodlouse [2] or fast woodlouse, [3] is a common European woodlouse. It is widespread in Europe , the British Isles and is found from southern Scandinavia to Ukraine and Greece . [ 4 ]
Woodlice have a basic morphology of a segmented, dorso-ventrally flattened body with seven pairs of jointed legs, and specialised appendages for respiration. Like other peracarids, female woodlice carry fertilised eggs in their marsupium, through which they provide developing embryos with water, oxygen and nutrients.
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. The World English Bible translates the passage as: Now John himself wore clothing made of camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist.
References to communal meals are found in 1 Corinthians 11:17–34 and in Saint Ignatius of Antioch's Letter to the Smyrnaeans, where the term agape is used, and in a letter from Pliny the Younger to Trajan, [10] (ca. 111 AD) in which he reported that the Christians, after having met "on a stated day" in the early morning to "address a form of ...
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.
Peter's vision of a sheet with animals, the vision painted by Domenico Fetti (1619) Illustration from Treasures of the Bible by Henry Davenport Northrop, 1894. According to the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 10, Saint Peter had a vision of a vessel (Greek: σκεῦος, skeuos; "a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners") full of animals being ...
Ligidium hypnorum is a species of woodlouse found across Europe and western Asia. [1] It is a fast-moving, active species that rarely grows longer than 9 mm (0.35 in). [2] It is dark and shiny, and is similar in appearance to the common species Philoscia muscorum, and also the rarer Oritoniscus flavus. [2]
Porcellionides pruinosus is a cosmopolitan and detrivorous woodlouse that is native to Europe, [2] and is suspected to consist of very closely related species. Ten subspecies are recognised. [ 1 ] The species carries Wolbachia endosymbionts , which is an alpha-proteobacterium that is known to modify the reproduction of their crustacean hosts by ...