Woodlice are perfectly harmless, in fact as nature’s recyclers, they’re very beneficial to your garden ecosystem and needed to create a wildlife-friendly garden.However, if you’ve noticed an ...

Woodlice’s hormonal sex determination mechanism has, however, been hijacked by some strains of the bacterium Wolbachia. This is a parasite transmitted from mother to offspring in many woodlouse ...

Woodlice’s hormonal sex determination mechanism has, however, been hijacked by some strains of the bacterium Wolbachia. This is a parasite transmitted from mother to offspring in many woodlouse ...

Woodlice are also models for flexible sex determination. Unlike all other invertebrates, the sexual development of both their reproductive anatomy and behavioural circuits in the brain are regulated ...

Woodlice can also eat paper, including wallpaper, and nibble on wooden fixtures around the home. There are a few key things to do to get rid of woodlice if you keep finding them in your home.

Researchers have discovered that woodlice can spread seeds they eat, setting a new record for the smallest animal recorded doing so. The findings highlight the crucial yet often overlooked role ...

Woodlice don't do much damage to gardens as a whole. In fact, they do a lot of good, helping to break down dead plants and increasing soil fertility. However, there may be instances, when raising ...

Better known as woodlice, they mate only once in their lifetime and spend the rest of their year-long life with their chosen partner and their family of 60 to 70 offspring in a single permanent ...

Amphipod is among the most diverse group of crustaceans, with over 10,000 extant species, including woodlice, shrimps, and lobsters. Amphipods are known to inhabit all aquatic environments worldwide.

The team relies on both captured woodlice (aka roly-polies) and captive chitons (small marine mollusks) to temporarily serve as a robot's hands.

It turns out that woodlice are helping scientists develop a new way for monitoring the presence of metallic nanoparticles in the environment. Wolfgang Langbein and colleagues at the University of ...