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Does anyone know a type of insect that looks like a armadillo?

Posted on October 16, 2011 by admin| 4 Comments

One of our renters found a dead insect under their bed and they think it’s an armadillo. Now we live in southern Illinois so I highly doubt it can be one. It is only an inch long, but it does look like an armadillo so I was just wondering if anyone knew what it could be? I’ve searched the internet and I haven’t found anything yet. What type of bug or retile could thins thing be??Thanks!
This thing has what looks like a stinger. It could possibly be a stiff tail…not really sure but I know it’s not a Roly Poly. It’s face is shaped like a mouse with a really pointy nose…hope that helps a little more.

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name that bug!?

Posted on July 16, 2011 by admin| 8 Comments

Okay – I call them potato bugs, but apparently I’m wrong. What’s the proper name for those little grey armadillo-like insects that curl up into balls when you poke them? You can find them just about anywhere in the midwest and northeast of the U.S.A., and I grew up calling them potato bugs and poking them. But I have no idea what they actually are called. My friend calls them “Roly-Polys,” if that’s any help.

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Does anyone know what type of bugs my daughters are finding? They are…?

Posted on July 2, 2011 by admin| 16 Comments

about 1/4″ long and look like little armadillos. We live in the Northeast and these bugs seem to live underneath rocks. My daughters like to catch them for their bug jars, but I’d like to do some research to see what they eat to keep them alive. Does anyone know the name of these bugs? We’ve nicknamed them rolly-pollies, potato bugs and armadillo bugs.
Yes, they sometimes curl up into little balls when touched. Almost like that’s their defense-mechanism.

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what bug is in my apt? in a basement unit in MN. they’re like little armadillos, the size of my fingernail

Posted on March 21, 2011 by admin| 6 Comments

i’m in a basement unit in central MN, not especially close to anything except other apt buildings. and they are all over the walls, mostly by the windows. at least one a day. they have a little shell with plates- like an armadillo- lots of legs- about the size of my fingernail. how do i keep them out? what are they?

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Can anyone tell me what sea bug this is?

Posted on September 11, 2010 by admin| 4 Comments

I was at the beach and I found a really strange animal, it’s green and black, like 3 inches long, the body is like the one of a lobster because it bends like in plaques (like an armadillo), in its front part it has 3 pairs of insect-like legs and then it has 5 pairs of something that looks like leaves and it moves them very fast. It kind of looks like a mix between a tiny lobster, a grasshopper and a scorpio.
I have it in my house and I tried to take a picture of it but it has a very bad quality, you can’t really appreciate details

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