White pill woodlouse
The white pill woodlouse is a tiny woodlouse that lives on sandy beaches in Europe. It is pale and speckled, just like the sand around it, so it is very hard to spot. It can even live where salty sea water washes over it.
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Fun facts
When something scares it, it rolls up halfway and keeps a few legs sticking out to hold on to the ground.
It can dig 20 to 30 cm deep into the sand.
It likes to hide under driftwood that the waves have left on the beach.
A mother carries about eight eggs in a pouch under her body.
Its babies need a whole year to grow up, and it lives for about two years.
Most asked questions about White pill woodlouse
?Is the white pill woodlouse dangerous?
No. It is a tiny woodlouse that cannot bite or sting.
?Where does the white pill woodlouse live?
On the coasts of Europe, in sand dunes and salt marshes, often under driftwood.
?How big is a white pill woodlouse?
Very small, at most about 7 mm long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Armadillidium album
- Group
- Woodlice
- Family
- Armadillidiidae
- Classification
- Malacostraca > Isopoda > Armadillidiidae
- Lives on
- Europe
- Also known as
- Beach pill woodlouse
Where the facts come from
- Armadillidium album (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 Matthew Vosper. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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