#common shiny woodlouse

[onenicebugperday]

Max (m**********5@gmail.com) Found this little guy in wales on a field trip :] wondering if you could identify him?

I can! It’s a woodlouse! Specifically looks like a common shiny woodlouse.

[snail-friend]

Poddy paradise :)

They be shy. (ignore the armadillidum on underside HE IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE IN THIS TANK)

[rossthren]

Another delightful insect, a weevil!

Poor thing had landed in the animals water

If someone know what kind of weevil this that would be awesome

Isopod with sand on it

Also me

[elntangle]

Happy flat fuck Friday! Featuring many flat fellows of Oniscus asellus, the white-skirted or common shiny woodlouse.

[bedupolker]

hey there! i’ve been picking up bugs since my childhood, and i was wondering, do the green spots on isopods indicate age or different species? i’ve found super small white isopods, normal sized gray ones, and rather large gray with green spots.

also your art is super cool, and i think you’re pretty cool too :)

Hmm depends what you mean by "green spots"?

I don't know where you live so I can't speak for everywhere, but on the east coast of the US and parts of the west coast, the two most common species of the guys that full on roll into a ball are. Armadillidium vulgare (left) and Armadillidium nasatum (right)

The easiest way to tell them apart is that  A. nasatum look kind of semi-translucent and they nearly always have the stripey pattern. A. vulgare are much more smooth and shiny by contrast, and their exoskeleton is opaque. A. vulgare also come in a pretty wide variety of colors and patterns. These are all wild types, the patterns are genetic and aren’t determined by age.

There are a few other widespread species that may or may not have spots, like the striped woodlouse and the common shiny woodlouse, but hard to say anything more specific without knowing location.

Adult isopods might look a tiny bit more pale right before a molt, the super tiny babies are born white, and iridiovirus makes them turn bright blue before they sadly die, but otherwise unless I’m missing some other isopod-specific disease, if they’ve got spots they’re probably just special :)

[critter-catcher]

I found something very neat the other day! So this is a common shiny woodlouse, better known as a rolly polly or a pill bug. Unlike what a lot of people thing these guys aren't actually bugs, but crustations!

So why am I so excited? Well, as arthropods (which include insects, arachnids, and crustaceans) tend to do, these guys actually molt, and shed their skin! But they do it in two parts, first shedding the back half, then the front half a few days later!

I'd known this for a while but I'd never actually seen the molt intact with the antenna!

[willowwispy08]

Welp first post is gonna be my mixed colony of Isopods! Onicus asellus(common shiny woodlouse) , porcellio scaber (common rough woodlouse), porcellio spinicornis (brickwork woodlouse), armadillidum vulgare(common pill woodlouse) and I have a few orange powders and other species

[horsebeast]

common shiny woodlouse, Oniscus asellus

[kingdomoftyto]

Tru tru tru tru I worked outdoors a lot at my last job so I got to see some cool bugs

As annoying as they are buzzing around and bumping into things, you can't deny June bugs are extremely pretty with their iridescent green carapaces

I get a little dopamine rush every time I spot a sphinx moth hanging out on a wall--they're so BIG for something so common!

Carpenter bees are just great big chonky friends with shiny black butts. We usually had a few keeping us company while we worked and I loved watching them bump around and stare at things.

And finally, not an insect but special shoutout to this crazy spider I've only ever seen once in my life but which left a huge impression on me because of its NEON ORANGE legs. This is the best photo of one I could find online and even it doesn't really do the color justice. It's called a woodlouse spider, apparently.

truly cannot overstate how important it is for everyone to do research into local insect species and just try to notice them when you go outside. there are beautiful metallic blue mud dauber wasps where i live and they’re common in the summer but i just never noticed them until this past year. there are so many dragonflies at the local park. in one walk this june i found ebony jewelwing damselflies and an enormous stinkbug and an emerald-coloured tiger beetle and there is honest to god so much beauty in the insect world if you are willing to look for it

[speciesofleastconcern]

I’ll be honest. I flipped this log because I wanted some stuff for the scavenger hunt. Animal with more than 8 legs: Oniscus asellus, common shiny woodlouse. (could have tried to get a better shot of that brown centipede hiding in the last photo or maybe the two kinds of millipedes that were there). Animal with no legs, animal that lives in a shell: Discus rotundus I got scavengers for my scavenger hunt! Boston 9/9/19

[photographypins]

"Common Shiny Woodlouse": The photo was taken by "treegrow" on Flickr & Uploaded to Flickr dated on May 04, 2017 at 07:41AM & shared under CC attribution license.

[onenicebugperday]

mars (e************a@gmail.com) submitted: was doing an experiment w pillbugs for biology and found this absolutely massive one !!! not sure if it’s a different species or just oddly large ,, found in southern michigan

Looks like you’ve got a couple species there but it’s definitely normal for them to get that big! That one in particular looks like a common shiny woodlouse.

[humanbyweight]

Every December, I re-post a few of the best photos I took that year. So, here are:

My Favorite "Other” Photos of 2018!

Centipede Mom - Candy-Striped - Mountain Coyote - Mutant Flower - Common Shiny Woodlouse - Chocolate Tube Slime

More Misc - Last Year’s Entries

[onenicebugperday]

@sonofsimon submitted: This is the largest Isopod I've ever seen. I'm in Michigan if you want to try to ID.

Big friend!! I’ve got some in my colony that are about that size. Very cute. They appear to be a common shiny woodlouse, Oniscus asellus :)

[onenicebugperday]

@loquaciousky submitted: Some good friends in southeastern PA! Moth buddy was about an inch long.

I love them both! The moth is a geometer but there are too many in that area that look super similar for me to confidently make a species ID. The woodlouse looks like a common shiny woodlouse!

[onenicebugperday]

@princessdiesdiarrhea submitted: One little buddy I found under a random broken statue we found in a clearing in the woods and a snuggly little woolly bear I moved out of the middle of the walking and biking trail along the river. I put him back in the leaves and grass off to the the side so he didn't get smooshed. It was a great day for seeing bugs and birds.

Two beautiful buggy friends! I love that the woodlouse lived under a random broken statue in the woods. I think they might be a fairy. But like a good and nice and cute kind. Woollybears!!! I miss them. Hope that one’s having a good day :)