...when she found this little guy.
He seems to be some sort of isopod -- possibly a woodlouse -- and looks like a tiny trilobite.
Miss V, who loves big bugs, let him run around on her hands for a while and had me take a few pictures.
Yes, we're apparently raising Nausicaä.
Our generic term for them is baker bugs for some reason.
ReplyDeleteIn California we mainly had the type that rolled up into a ball when disturbed, and we called them pillbugs.
ReplyDeleteUseless trivia moment: woodlice are more closely related to crustaceans (shrimp and crabs) than they are insects. The things you learn from Wikipedia.