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Pet Roly-Poly (Pill Bug)

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Date: 06/16/2006 Topics: Pets > Advice | Readers Request > Pets  
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I would like to know about keeping a rolly pollie as a pet. I mostly want to know what to feed him. He's in a cage and has a name, I just want to know what to feed them.

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Post By sydney (Guest Post) (03/28/2008)
were exactly to pill bugs live outside?

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Post By Fred (Guest Post) (03/26/2008)
I love Rolly-pollys!

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Post by wyoKrista (41) | (06/30/2006)
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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!

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Post By Karen (Guest Post) (06/29/2006)
Are they harmful?

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Post By Betty Watson (Guest Post) (06/24/2006)
The baby pill bug look like dandrif, but they crawl. And are a yellowish white color.

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Post by Jilson (108) | (06/19/2006)
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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.

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Post by susanmajp (680) | (06/17/2006)
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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.

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Post by meoowmom (1171) | (06/16/2006)
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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.

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Post By (Guest Post) (06/16/2006)
Hi, They eat my vegetable plants, so they must like salad greens. Loretta

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Post By sandy (Guest Post) (06/16/2006)
do you mean the little insect?? or is there something else i dont know about.

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