Fun With Roly Poly Bugs

I remember spending hours in my Grandparent's yard turning over rocks looking for little Roly Poly pets. I loved to have a little zoo of them to fuss over and feed and pretend that they were in training for the World Roly Poly Olympics. Today, I still smile when I stumble across one in my garden. I show them to my kids and I like to think that they pretend that their little friends are in training for something important too!

Go Dig In The Dirt!

The pill bug is a small, segmented isopod that can curl up in to a ball for protection. These are types of arthropods, or crustaceans, not insects or true bugs.

Pill bugs are commonly found in many areas around the world. They prefer moist soil or rotting vegetation, living in the soil and under decaying leaves, rocks, and dead logs.

A pill bug is born from an egg, looking almost like a tiny adult. As it grows, it molts (sheds its old, outgrown exoskeleton) 4 to 5 times.

Pill Bugs are protected by a hard exoskeleton with three basic divisions, the head, the thorax, and the abdomen. They have 7 pairs of legs.

Pill bugs are omnivorous, eating plants and decayed animals.

THE PILLBUG
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