The spider shown in the photographs is Dysdera crocata, known variously as the woodlouse spider, sow-bug killer, woodlouse hunter spider, pill bug hunter, and Stiletto spider.. This spider is not ...

Pill bugs have the ability to roll into a ball when disturbed, much like an armadillo... Sow bugs and pill bugs won't damage house SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

The wolf spider escapes into the leaves. We end up turning over at least 50 stones in the brook bed. Under most of them, the soil is devoid of macroscopic life, except for some sow bugs, another ...

Silas picked her up with his thumb and forefinger and popped her into his plastic container, which now held several sow bugs, the thin-legged wolf spider, a couple of worms and a small toad.

The pest goes by many names. I have a friend who calls them mutant spiders. The exterminator at my neighbor’s house calls them criders. The bug is also called spider cricket, spricket, cave ...

Sow bugs and pill bugs, both of which are also called wood lice, look fairly similar to one another. A pill bug is commonly known as a "roly-poly" for its defensive behavior of rolling up into an ...

Southeast Asian scientists sent people’s skin crawling after discovering a sea bug off Vietnam that’s so massive that it looks AI-generated, per a study published in Zookeys.

It eats pill bugs, sow bugs, wood lice, millipedes and insects that crawl on the ground. NOT HUMANS. It likes to live under logs or rocks or in window wells where you’d find ground crawlers.

Bugs abound, but usually they aren”t that much of a bother. With my hand-picking and foot-stomping routine, I”ve managed not to use any pest-killing chemicals in years — until recently. My ...

Welcome to summer in Florida. Hot humid weather creates a lush tropical oasis where heat-loving plants thrive - along with the bugs. Less than 1 percent of all insects are pests, so the majority of… ...

Bugs abound, but usually they aren’t that much of a bother. With my hand-picking and foot-stomping routine, I’ve managed not to use any pest-killing chemicals in years — until recently. My ...