sow bug

It's some kind of precrawling thing, and it makes him look exactly like a sow bug.

Sow bugs do not look like shrimps or crabs, although they are closely related.

Some typical meadow residents are ants, centipedes, millipedes and sow bugs.

A sow bug or woodlouse is a small land arthropod (jointed-legged animal).

The group includes the terrestrial pill bugs and sow bugs, with numerous marine forms.

Other food items include earthworms, spiders, millipedes, centipedes, sow bugs and snails.

So far, the car is best embodied in a tapered silvery shape, part sow bug and part model for a science-fiction film.

"I like to get right down on the ground and look at the sow bugs, the wireworms and all that stuff going on down there."

Slugs, particularly, are rampant, as are millipedes, sow bugs and pill bugs.

Their diets consist primarily of ants, beetles, sow bugs, and earthworms, but they will consume most kinds of insect.

It is an older pattern that imitates a variety of aquatic life, including scuds, sow bugs, mayfly nymphs, and caddis larvae.

Its diet consists of mostly small insects, such as caterpillars, beetle larvae, earthworms, centipedes, slugs, and sow bugs.

Inspect leaves and stems for aphids, scale and mealybugs, and check the drainage holes in the pots for slugs, sow bugs and earwigs.

Pill bugs, like their cousins the sow bugs, have hard, dark gray or brownish segmented bodies about half an inch long, and if disturbed, they roll into protective balls.

Trilobites resemble sow bugs (commonly known as 'carpenters') or crabs and were first discovered along the river in 1874 by T.C. Weston of the Geological Survey of Canada.

The Western Skink is a secretive and very agile lizard that forages actively through leaf litter and dense vegetation, preying upon small invertebrates including spiders,a variety of insects and sow bugs.

She got as far as filling three black trash bags with junk food jetsam and was getting ready to vacuum up the collection of sow bug corpses that dotted her carpet when she made the mistake of Windexing the television.

But the right combination generates a diverse population of fungi, bacteria, protozoa, tiny invertebrates like mites and sow bugs, which feed on old grapefruit rinds, grass and leaves, turning them into humus, which holds moisture and air and nutrients like a living sponge.

The 3,400-square-foot zoo is inhabited by arthropods, the phylum of invertebrates with jointed legs, segmented bodies and external skeletons that includes insects, millipedes, centipedes, arachnids (spiders, scorpions, mites and ticks) and crustaceans (crayfish, lobsters, crabs, barnacles and sow bugs).

The sun lay on the grass and warmed it, and in the shade under the grass the insects moved, ants and ant lions to set traps for them, grasshoppers to jump into the air and flick their yellow wings for a second, sow bugs like little armadillos, plodding restlessly on many tender feet.