With winter rains, Bay Area pill bugs are out in force. Fortunately, they’re one of our most beloved “bugs.” Pill bugs. Doodle bugs. Potato bugs. Wood Shrimp. Whatever you call them, there ...

The release is simply a matter of time; researchers say that after about 115 seconds a held object is released naturally when the pill bug’s shell opens.

While outdoors pill bugs live for up to two years, they can't last longer than two days in dry environments. For this reason, keep an eye out for signs of high home humidity, which could be ...

Hungry pill bugs were placed in a petri dish containing liverworts with no or over-generated oil bodies, and compared their herbivory. The liverworts without the oil body were eaten by pill bugs ...

Who doesn’t love roly poly pill bugs? Now, San Pedro has one of its very own. A tiny new species of marine pill bug was a bonus find on a field trip led by museum researcher Dean Pentcheff of ...