wood louse
Crustacean under logs
A wood louse is a small crustacean with a segmented, armor-like body that lives in damp places on land—under logs, stones, and leaf litter.
Despite appearances, wood lice are more closely related to crabs and shrimp than to insects.
They curl into a ball when disturbed, earning them regional names like pill bug and roly-poly.
- pillbugLand crustacean, rolls defensively
- pill bugLand crustacean, curls defensively
- roly-polyPlump and round
- potato bugSegmented garden invertebrate
- crustaceanAquatic arthropod with exoskeleton
isopod · damp · cellar · rotting · compost · curled · segmented · grey · scuttling · garden · garden pest · decay · moisture · exoskeleton · antennae · creepy crawly · leaf litter · log
- pestsants, ant, bugs, cockroach, cockroaches
- wood dwellersbark beetle, woodborer, termite, longhorn beetle, woodworm
- limnoriids
- bugsbeetle, cricket, bug, firefly, cockroach