Carr slater
The carr slater is a small woodlouse that is dark and shiny. It is quick and busy and scurries along fast. It likes old woods that have been there for a very long time.
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Fun facts
It looks a lot like the common striped woodlouse, so you have to look closely to tell them apart.
In Britain it was first found in 1873, on Copthorne Common in Surrey.
Scientists use it as a sign of ancient woodland. If you find it, the wood is probably very old.
Long ago some blue ones were found, and people thought they were new kinds. Later scientists learned they were just sick with a virus that turns woodlice blue.
Most asked questions about Carr slater
?What does the carr slater eat?
Dead leaves and rotting plant bits, like other woodlice.
?Is the carr slater dangerous?
No. Woodlice are harmless to people.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ligidium hypnorum
- Group
- Woodlice
- Family
- Ligiidae
- Classification
- Malacostraca > Isopoda > Ligiidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Ligidium hypnorum (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Andy Murray. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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