Meanings of pill bug in English

It yielded one pill bug, one puparial case, and no plant inclusions.

Lizzie flicked a pill bug off the purple rhododendrons she'd arranged inside a pitcher.

Though I'd forward the pill bug and casing to the entomologist, I doubted either would be of much use.

In the pill bug Armadillidium vulgare, the presence of Wolbachia is also associated with detrimental effects on host fertility and lifespan.

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

Woodlice, the little crustaceans often called pill bugs, and millipedes, also known as thousand-leggers, rolled themselves into armored spheres.

The only sounds were the soft scrape of our rubber shoe soles on the concrete and the crunch of dead pill bugs.

Past the threshold, our flashlights revealed dead pill bugs on the concrete steps, some crushed and some as whole and round as buckshot.

It also, in a nod to super science nerds, features tardigrades, the microscopic "water bears" that look like pill bugs in khakis.

In the beam from Sasha's flashlight, the first several steps were not covered in dust any longer, and the dead pill bugs were gone.

In the North, earwigs and sow bugs ( pill bugs) are frequently found in mulched gardens but they do not become a serious pest.

And even though they're technically crustaceans rather than insects, dead woodlice and pill bugs produced the same set of fatty acids as the other animals.