woodlouse in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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Their morphology resembles that of their terrestrial cousin, the woodlouse: their bodies are dorso-ventrally compressed, protected by a rigid, calcareous exoskeleton composed of overlapping segments.

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The body of the woodlouse looks like armour-plating and is actually made from segments of toughened chitin which contains calcium.

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The species are noted for resemblance to the common woodlouse or pill bug, to which they are related.

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One guy plucks a woodlouse from a piece of bark, crunches down on its shell-like body - and swallows.

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While their closest modern descendant is the horseshoe crab, they bear close resemblance to the modern woodlouse.

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Trying to get people excited about a rare woodlouse is more difficult.

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If a foraging woodlouse can not find the burrow entrance on its return, it employs a complex and efficient strategy to find it again.

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A female woodlouse will keep fertilised eggs in a marsupium on the underside of her body until they hatch into small, white offspring.

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Slugs, snails, earthworms, woodlouse and millipedes are likely inhabitants here.

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Woodlouse spiders hunt at night without the use of a web.

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