Common Striped Woodlouse (Philoscia muscorum)

In the early hours of the morning on Christmas Day, I'd just discovered a caterpillar munching away on one of my plants in the cold, and not far from it this attractive Woodlouse going about its business before disappearing into a tiny hole in a leaf, as shown here

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Ferdy Christant

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Interesting, all this arthropod activity in December, isn't it? Happy New Year, Philips! Posted 4 years ago

The Common Striped Woodlouse

"Philoscia muscorum", the "common striped woodlouse" or "fast woodlouse", is a common European woodlouse. It is widespread in Europe, the British Isles and is found from southern Scandinavia to the Ukraine and Greece. It has also spread to Washington and many states in New England, also the mid-Atlantic states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as Nova Scotia.

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Similar species: Brood Pouch Crustaceans

Species identified by Philip Booker