Pillbugs and Sowbugs

Pillbugs Sowbugs

Entomologist Dr. Art Evans and WCVE producer Steve Clark discuss why rolypolies are not insects and reveal that they live, in an ecological sense, on the knife’s edge.

Photo: Pillbug, Porcellio armadillidium. © 2012, A.V. Evans

Key words: pillbugs, sowbugs, rolypoly, crustacean, isopod

I really love getting to "listen" to someone talking about the pill bug rather than read an article. I learned so much! Awesome! Saw Dr Evans first on FB. Thanks!

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