Armadillidium pictum - Collage B

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Ferdy Christant

Lion

Love that little rolled up one! Thanks so much for this influx of woodlice, they are awesome! Posted 6 years ago
1. Pudding4brains
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks Ferdy - many more to come I hope, although sifting through my old images is quite depressing ... should really make a point of finding and photographing many, many species again with my current setup.
  This species is not too bad, but a rolled up Armadillidium pulchellum can be around 2mm and when rolling away near impossible to find back between grains of sand/dirt. Posted 6 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    I think you're being too hard on yourself, as always. And as always, I invite to share even what you consider lesser images. They have a use too. And quite likely one day you may retake it and then add it too, multiple photos of a species is exactly what should happen on this platform. In any case, looking forward to more!
    
    By the way, I've unexpectedly photographed a woodlice on this photo, do you know which species it is:
    
    Posted 6 years ago, modified 6 years ago

The Decorated Pill Woodlouse

''Armadillidium pictum'' is a species of woodlouse which occurs over most of Europe, except the Mediterranean Basin and Southeast Europe. In the British Isles, it is only known from a few sites, making it by some accounts, "Britain's rarest woodlouse". Since these sites are all remote from human habitation, in Cumbria and Powys, the species is thought to be native rather than introduced.

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Species identified by Pudding4brains