Pillbugs and sowbugs are not bugs at all. Unlike our other garden inhabitants, they are a type of crustacean called an isopod. They are more closely related to lobsters and shrimp than to any insect.

It’s hard to believe, but sowbugs and pillbugs are more closely related to lobsters and crayfish than they are to insects. These soil-dwelling crustaceans belong to the Isopoda order. Sowbugs and ...

Several years ago, a cottonwood tree fell beside the South Boulder Creek Trail. Its bark was falling off, indicating that it was a likely site for sowbugs, also called woodlice. I peeled back a piece ...

It's uncanny how some critters who were a source of awe and giggles during childhood have transformed into inconvenient menaces now that you garden. But that's just pillbugs for you. Curling into ...

This article was published 31/10/2016 (3252 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. This year our yard was inundated with sowbugs. We have never seen as many in the 14 years we have ...