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PRETTY COMMON PILL WOODLOUSE!
Common Pill Woodlouse- Curled up!
Sam- Editor of UK Nature Blog- tells us a bit more about the common woodlouse.
If you’ve never looked at a woodlouse up close you might not notice how interesting and pretty they can be! I was particularly drawn to this one (admittedly a strange phrase given the subject) as it looked more colourful and patterned than the usual woodlice that I see, which are just a uniform grey. It also seemed to run about three times faster than woodlice I’m familiar with.
As usual with these things I feverishly looked it up, expecting to find that I had unveiled an exotic invader or even a whole new species, only to find that it is the “common woodlouse”. So how come I haven’t noticed these patterned ones before? I think the usual ones that sneak across the carpet must be the common rough or common shiny woodlice.
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