I wanted to start a thread on Woodlice & Millipedes.
When I was a kid I was fascinated by them and became quite the expert as I studied them for many years. I'm still fascinated by them today I sometimes collect woodlice for my compost heap. I'm thinking about making a woodlice and millipede habitat in a 250 gallon fish tank with some small plants and stuff.
Millipedes and Woodlice are from the same family of crustaceans.
There are many different types of woodlice and millipedes. My favorite kind of woodlouse is the Pill Woodlouse often referred to as a "pill bug" these are the ones that roll up into balls to protect themselves from predators and they come in many different colors most commonly grey with yellow markings but other colors can be found such as brown, orange, red, White and even blue. There are also some zebra varieties too.
There are also pill millipedes that could be mistaken for a pill woodlouse except millipedes have approximately 300 legs where as a woodlouse has 14 legs.
You can also get giant millipedes such as the giant African millipede.
The most common types of woodlice to be found are the flat kind and move a lot faster... during the summer time you'll often find lots of pregnant females that have yellow or white sacks under there bellies which start off as orange eggs then hatch inside the sack under the mothers belly then the sack eventually splits and the babies come crawling out which appear as little white woodlice.
I'll add a bit more later.
