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Woodlouse Running amp Standing in Water
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A woodlouse (plural woodlice) is a terrestrial isopod crustacean with a rigid, segmented, long exoskeleton and fourteen jointed limbs.[1] Woodlice mostly feed on dead plant material, and they are usually active at night. Woodlice form the suborder Oniscidea within the order Isopoda, with over 5,000 known species. • Woodlice in the genus Armadillidium and in the family Armadillidae can roll up into an almost perfect sphere as a defensive mechanism, hence some of the common names such as pill bug, or roly-poly. Most woodlice, however, cannot do this.[2] • Common names for woodlice vary throughout the English-speaking world. A number of common names make reference to the fact that some species of woodlice can roll up into a ball. Other names compare the woodlouse to a pig. • Names include: • armadillo bug [3] • boat-builder (Newfoundland, Canada)[4] • butcher boy or butchy boy (Australia,[5] mostly around Melbourne[6]) • carpenter or cafner (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)[7] • cheeselog (Reading, England)[8] • cheesy bobs (Guildford, England)[9] • cheesy bug (North West Kent, England)[10] • chiggy pig (Devon, England)[11][12] • chucky pig (Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, England)[13] • doodlebug (also used for the larva of an antlion)[14] • gramersow (Cornwall, England)[15] • granny grey (South Wales)[16] • hog-louse [17] • monkey-peas (Kent, England)[10] • pea bug or peasie-bug (Kent, England)[10] • pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium)[18] • potato bug [19] • roll up bug [20] • roly-poly [19] • sow bug [21] • slater (Scotland, Northern Ireland, New Zealand and Australia)[22][23][24] • wood bug (British Columbia, Canada)[25] • Description and life cycle-- • The woodlouse has a shell-like exoskeleton, which it must progressively shed as it grows. The moult takes place in two stages; the back half is lost first, followed two or three days later by the front. 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.[26] • Despite being crustaceans like lobsters or crabs, woodlice are said to have an unpleasant taste similar to strong urine .[26] • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlouse • United States: • The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America (/əˈmɛrɪkə/), is a federal republic[16][17] composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.[fn 6] Forty-eight states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east and across the Bering Strait from Russia to the west. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U.S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, stretching across nine official time zones. The extremely diverse geography, climate and wildlife of the United States make it one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries.[19] • At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km2)[20] and with over 324 million people, the United States is the world's third- or fourth-largest country by total area,[fn 7] and the third-most populous. The capital is Washington, D.C., and the largest city is New York City; twelve other major metropolitan areas—each with at least 4.5 million inhabitants—are Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Miami, Atlanta, Boston, San Francisco, Phoenix, and Riverside. • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...
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