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Sow bug - Porcellio scaber
Copyright © 2009 Noah Charney

Sow bug - Porcellio scaber
Half Moon Bay, California, USA
July 3, 2008
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Contributed by Noah Charney on 10 February, 2009 - 9:53am
Last updated 25 March, 2009 - 10:12pm

Moved
Moved from Porcellionidae.
… john and jane balaban, 25 March, 2009 - 10:12pm login or register to post comments

Porcellio scaber
ID by Ferenc Vilisics
… john and jane balaban, 25 March, 2009 - 10:10pm login or register to post comments

Yup... sorta
Treu "roly polies" or pillbugs are in the family Armadillidiidae(arm-ah-dil-ih-dee-ih-day, I know, it's a mouthful!) and have smooth rounded bodies.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/15961
This here is the next best thing, a sow bug, come from the family Porcellionidae (pore-sell-ee-on-ih-day. A lot of these need some practice to say strait), and are flattened and can have rough, pimply backs.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/15963

A third group, the pygmy wood lice (all of these guys, sow bugs, pill bugs, and these guys, can be called "wood lice") look like the sow bugs but a much smaller (only a few millimeters long) and are narrow.
They belong to the family Trichoniscidae (try-co-nisk-ih-day) and also seem to like more damp environments then the other two (from personal experience).
http://bugguide.net/node/view/55260
… Jonas Insinga, 10 February, 2009 - 1:22pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
for clearing that all up for me!
… Noah Charney, 10 February, 2009 - 1:32pm login or register to post comments

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