Insect Identification - Pillbug/sowbug

Pest Identification Guide

Pillbug/Sowbug
Order Isopoda

Not more than 3/4 inch long; thorax composed of seven hard overlapping plates with seven pairs of legs; only pill bugs are able to roll up into a ball. Prefer moist locations; found under objects on damp ground; mostly nocturnal; often invade basements and first floors of houses. Diet is decaying vegetable matter. Female gives birth to between 24 and 28 young per brood; usually one to three generations a year; may live as long as 2 years. Pill bugs and related sow bugs are the only crustaceans that have become completely adapted to living their whole life on land.

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