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Trying to get people excited about a rare woodlouse is more difficult. www.newsandstar.co.uk

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

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

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. en.wikipedia.org

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

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

He found a moth that lived on feathers, a beetle, a woodlouse that lived on dung, and numerous spiders that he thought lived on scavengers of the waterfowl. en.wikipedia.org

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

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

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

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