woodlice
plural ofwoodlousemainlyUK
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We do not get anything like the clamour about hunting seals on behalf of wasps orwoodliceor wolverines or worms.
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It is especially fond of ants andwoodlice, which alone would make it worth preserving.
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It is this ability which giveswoodlicein this family their common name of pill bugs or roly polies, or doodlebugs.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is voracious and eatswoodlice, slugs, beetles, caterpillars, flies, earthworms and even small mice.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Examples of detritivores include earthworms,woodliceand dung beetles.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It feeds at night on small invertebrates such as ants, mites, adult beetles and their larvae, snails, springtails andwoodlice.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Pill millipedes have twelve to thirteen body segments, with a large shield-like posterior segment, whereaswoodlicehave eleven, and small posterior segments.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These are mainlywoodlice, ants and beetles but also include flies, termites, mites, centipedes, millipedes, spiders and pseudoscorpions.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The community of decomposers in the litter layer also includes bacteria, amoeba, nematodes, rotifer, springtails, cryptostigmata, potworms, insect larvae, mollusks, oribatid mites,woodlice, and millipedes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Terrestrial crustaceans may have a fair number -woodlicehaving fourteen legs.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Their animal foods are insects, especially dragonflies, and also snails, earthworms, crabs, spiders, millipedes,woodlice, amphibians, rodents, and small birds.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The masked hunter is a predator of small arthropods, includingwoodlice, lacewings, earwigs, and bed bugs.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Woodlicecan also invade homes en masse in search of moisture and their presence can indicate dampness problems.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In common with otherwoodlice, it has seven pairs of legs and a pair of conspicuous antennae.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One study on infectedwoodliceshowed the broods of infected organisms had a higher proportion of females than their uninfected counterparts.
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