Pest Organisms / Common Pillbug
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A pillbug is the little gray "roly-poly" you find under flowerpots and rocks. When something scares it, it curls into a ball to keep its soft belly safe inside, like a bug-sized armadillo. Source: https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN1099 Here is a surprise: a pillbug is not really a bug at all. It is a tiny relative of crabs and lobsters that learned to live on land, the only beach buddy that visits your garden. Source: https://extension.umn.edu/insect-relatives/sowbugs-millipedes-and-centipedes Pillbugs are helpers, not pests. They munch dead, rotting leaves and turn them back into good soil for plants. Source: https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN1099