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The moult takes place in two stages; the back half is lost first, followed two or three days later by the front.

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This method of moulting is different from that of most arthropods, which shed their cuticle in a single process. A female woodlouse will keep fertilised eggs in a marsupium on the underside of her body until they hatch into offspring that look like small white woodlice curled up in balls. The mother then appears to "give birth" to her offspring. Females are also capable of reproducing asexually.

Despite being crustaceans like lobsters or crabs , woodlice are said to have an unpleasant taste similar to "strong urine". Pillbugs woodlice of the family Armadillidiidae , also known as pill woodlice can be confused with pill millipedes of the order Glomerida. They live in very similar habitats, and they can both roll up into a ball.

Pill millipedes and pillbugs appear superficially similar to the naked eye. This is an example of convergent evolution. Pill millipedes can be distinguished from woodlice on the basis of having two pairs of legs per body segment instead of one pair like all isopods. Pill millipedes have twelve to thirteen body segments and about eighteen pairs of legs, whereas woodlice have eleven segments and only seven pairs of legs.

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Living in a terrestrial environment [ clarification needed ] , woodlice breathe through trachea -like lungs in their paddle-shaped hind legs pleopods , called pleopodal lungs. Woodlice need moisture because they rapidly lose water by excretion and through their cuticle , and so are usually found in damp, dark places, such as under rocks and logs, although one species, Hemilepistus reaumuri , inhabits "the driest habitat conquered by any species of crustacean".

A few woodlice have returned to water. Evolutionary ancient species are amphibious, such as the marine-intertidal sea slater Ligia oceanica , which belongs to family Ligiidae. Other examples include some Haloniscus species from Australia family Scyphacidae , and in the northern hemisphere several species of Trichoniscidae and Thailandoniscus annae family Styloniscidae. Species for which aquatic life is assumed include Typhlotricholigoides aquaticus Mexico and Cantabroniscus primitivus Spain.

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Woodlice are eaten by a wide range of insectivores , and some animals are known to prey exclusively on woodlice, for example, spiders of the genus Dysdera , such as the woodlouse spider Dysdera crocata , [25] and land planarians of the genus Luteostriata , such as Luteostriata abundans. Although woodlice, like earthworms , are generally considered beneficial in gardens for their role in controlling pests, [35] producing compost and overturning the soil, they have also been known to feed on cultivated plants, such as ripening strawberries and tender seedlings.

Woodlice can also invade homes en masse in search of moisture and their presence can indicate dampness problems.

There are over 45 native or naturalised species of woodlouse in the British Isles , ranging in colour and in size 3—30 millimetres or 0. Of these 45 species, only five are common: Oniscus asellus the common shiny woodlouse , Porcellio scaber the common rough woodlouse , Philoscia muscorum the common striped woodlouse , Trichoniscus pusillus the common pygmy woodlouse , and Armadillidium vulgare the common pill bug. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Comparison of the pill bug Armadillidium vulgare left and the pill millipede Glomeris marginata right.

Hemilepistus reaumuri lives in "the driest habitat conquered by any species of crustacean". Ligia oceanica is aquatic.

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