Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images If you’ve ever picked up a flower pot on your patio or dug around in a pile of mulch, you’ve probably seen a roly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Common Pill Woodlouse. As I have the opportunity to visit with folks about the natural world, I love hearing the countless stories ...

Meet the animal kingdom’s newest little guy. This is Booralana nickorum, a recently described species of deep-sea isopod found in The Bahamas. It is a cirolanid isopod—a member of the family ...

Roly poly bugs may be a source of fun for kids and adults but these little bugs that form into balls at the slightest touch are causing problems for some threatened fish. New research finds steelhead ...

It's not just your house: there are more earwigs skittering around Wisconsin this year. Earwigs generally don't receive a lot of attention in terms of research and monitoring, so it's hard to pinpoint ...

Pillbugs and sowbugs are not bugs at all. Unlike our other garden inhabitants, they are a type of crustacean called an isopod. They are more closely related to lobsters and shrimp than to any insect.

If you've ever picked up a flower pot on your patio or dug around in a pile of mulch, you've probably seen a roly poly. The common name, given to both pillbugs and sowbugs, is appropriate because of ...

As I have the opportunity to visit with folks about the natural world, I love hearing the countless stories of the fond memories that many people recall of where they would interact with nature as ...

New research finds steelhead trout in a stream on the California coast accumulate mercury in their bodies when the fish eat roly polies and similar terrestrial bugs that fall into local waterways. The ...