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.

Planting season is around the corner, and one TikToker has you covered when it comes to pests. Roly-poly bugs, while adorable, can be considered pests in a garden as they damage plants by nibbling on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Do you hear that? Dermatologist Sandra Lee, MD, a.k.a. Dr. Pimple Popper, is singing a new song. Naturally, her song is all about what she knows best: pimples. All of her patients in her latest ...

Pretty ladybugs, fluttering butterflies, creepy daddy longlegs, and roly-poly bugs are some of the familiar creatures featured in this insect album. Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! will inform and entertain curious ...

Thinking about what happens in this film? Here's the plot: "Pretty ladybugs, fluttering butterflies, creepy daddy longlegs, and roly-poly bugs are some of the familiar creatures featured in this ...

I have been invaded by roly-poly bugs! I've always had two or three show up, but now I have hundreds. This morning, as I stepped into the bathroom with bare feet, it was "crunch, crunch, crunch." Oh, ...

We all run across the pill bug in our gardens. At the first sign of danger, the tiny paranoid crustacean suddenly turns into a ball — in hopes danger will have passed when he unrolls. That roly-poly ...