Pest Organisms / Common Pillbug
Beneficial Notes
for Common Pillbug
This is the heart of the pillbug's story. It feeds chiefly on decaying plant material and other decomposing matter, recycling those nutrients back into the soil. Source: https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN1099 Extension specialists count this nutrient recycling as the reason pillbugs are deemed beneficial. Source: https://extension.msstate.edu/newsletters/bugs-eye-view/2020/pillbugs-vol-6-no-24 That makes it a valuable recycler in the soil community and a helper worth keeping, not a creature to wipe out. Source: https://ipm.ucanr.edu/home-and-landscape/pillbugs-and-sowbugs/