Pest Organisms / Common Pillbug
Inspection
for Common Pillbug
Inspect from the outside in. Pillbugs hide under organic litter and beneath low plant growth, so lift mulch, boards, and flowerpots near the foundation to find the source. Source: https://ipm.ucanr.edu/home-and-landscape/pillbugs-and-sowbugs/ Indoors, focus on damp, ground-contact zones: basements and ground-floor rooms where they enter through foundation cracks, door gaps, and around low windows. Source: https://extension.umn.edu/insect-relatives/sowbugs-millipedes-and-centipedes Track the moisture as you go; pillbugs cannot persist in a dry interior, surviving only a few days inside. Source: https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/g7362