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  2. Armadillidium vulgare - Wikipedia

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    Armadillidium vulgare, the common pill-bug, potato bug, common pill woodlouse, roly-poly, slater, doodle bug, or carpenter, is a widespread European species of woodlouse. It is the most extensively investigated terrestrial isopod species. [ 2 ] It is native to Mediterranean Europe, but as an introduced species they have become naturalized in ...

  3. Armadillidiidae - Wikipedia

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    Armadillidiidae. Armadillidiidae is a family of woodlice, a terrestrial crustacean group in the order Isopoda. Unlike members of some other woodlice families, members of this family can roll into a ball, an ability they share with the outwardly similar but unrelated pill millipedes and other animals. This ability gives woodlice in this family ...

  4. Invertebrate iridescent virus 31 - Wikipedia

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    2014 [1] Iridovirus armadillidium1, known formerly as Invertebrate iridescent virus 31 (IIV-31) and informally as isopod iridovirus, is a species of invertebrate iridescent virus in the genus Iridovirus. [2] Oniscidea (commonly known by a variety of names including woodlouse, pillbug, slater, roly-poly, potato bug, et al.) serve as hosts.

  5. Armadillidium - Wikipedia

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    Armadillidium (/ ɑːrmədɪˈlɪdiəm /) is a genus of the small terrestrial crustacean known as the woodlouse. Armadillidium are also commonly known as pill woodlice, leg pebbles, pill bugs, roly-poly, or potato bugs, and are often confused with pill millipedes such as Glomeris marginata. They are characterised by their ability to roll into a ...

  6. Woodlouse - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, pill bugs have a thorax consisting of 7 body segments, 5 abdominal segments, and a pleotelson, while Glomeris millipedes lack a visually defined thorax and have 12 body segments total. While the uropods of pillbugs are relatively quite small, flipping a pill bug over will reveal the small uropod overlapping the pleotelson. [ 41 ]

  7. The bite is on: What to know about the viruses mosquitoes are ...

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    Symptoms for both of the viruses, which can begin anywhere from three days to two weeks after the mosquito bite, include: Fever. Headache. Fatigue. Nausea. The viruses become a serious problem if ...

  8. Giant isopod - Wikipedia

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    A giant isopod is any of the almost 20 species of large isopods in the genus Bathynomus. They are abundant in the cold, deep waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans. [1][2] Bathynomus giganteus, the species upon which the generitype is based, is often considered the largest isopod in the world, though other comparably poorly known ...

  9. Bugdom - Wikipedia

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    The game is set in an outdoors bug environment, in the Bugdom, a kingdom once ruled by bugs, namely the rollie pollies and ladybugs that was overthrown by a clan of fire ants who captured all of the Lady Bugs and held them as prisoners, leaving their leader, King Thorax, to rule the land. [2]