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By
11/18/2009
Guess what if a rollie pollie is blue or purpley it is sick. They are dormant in the winter. and breath through gill like things! *le gasp*!
By
05/14/2009
They at live plants vegetables leaves, best to get a bottle cap and fill it with water for it to drink from, and also how to tell a male from a female: the female has tiny pouches in her legs to store eggs and males don't. They also like damp areas I have my own pill bug farm and they're doing fine.
By
06/30/2006
my sister use to collect them, they never seemed to live very long. I would feed them the veggies you dont want to eat for supper!
By Betty Watson (Guest Post)
06/24/2006
The baby pill bug look like dandrif, but they crawl. And are a yellowish white color.
By
06/19/2006
Just an interesting fact--they're not "bugs" at all. They're actually crustaceans--more closely related to a crab than a ladybug!
Here is a website with the facts that follow:
http://www.bulldogpestcontrol.com/CritterCriteria.htm
Pill Bug/Sow Bug: Order Isopoda
Appearance: Not more than 3/4 inch long; thorax composed of seven hard overlapping plates with seven pairs of legs; only pillbugs are able to roll up into a ball.
Habits: Prefer moist locations; found under objects on damp ground; mostly nocturnal; sometimes found in basements and ground levels of structures.
Diet: Decaying vegetable matter.
Reproduction: Female gives birth to between 24 and 28 young per brood; usually on e to three generations a year; may live as long as two years.
Other Criteria: Pillbugs and related sowbugs are the only crustaceans that have become completely adapted to living their whole life on land.
By
06/17/2006
Keep the environment like they live in outside--cool, dark, and damp. I'd make sure there was some dirt, some plants, and old food (roly-polys sure like my compost pile) like part of an apple core or lettuce leaves. Remember to keep things damp and/or give a water source. My son used to collect these when he was small.
By
06/16/2006
I would love to send you some Pill Bugs that keep
coming into my home. Are you keeping them it in an aquariam or? I would think teeny tiny pieces of
bread or just crumbs. Good luck.
By (Guest Post)
06/16/2006
Hi, They eat my vegetable plants, so they must like salad greens. Loretta
By sandy (Guest Post)
06/16/2006
do you mean the little insect?? or is there something else i dont know about.
If they like salad greens and don't live, long should I keep one?
By Kendall
By Abigail A.
08/29/2011
A roly poly likes a shady space with a couple of rocks, a piece of old wood, and some dead leaves. Add a little moisture but don't keep it too wet. Don't worry if the food gets a little old because they kind of like it that way. If you fix it up right, I doubt your bug will even know it's indoors.
If a Roly Poly is having a baby how do you take care of it?
By Blakely H. from Houston, TX
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