I went out woodlice hunting today - not something I do regularly. Someone wanted some woodlice for a school project so I said, "No problem, I'll go and collect a few hundred.'.
Serious struggle to find 30-40 and those mainly small - in the whole of my garden and a thirty minute walk through the wood.
Where have they all gone
or are there always few at this time of year and I've simply never noticed? I've always assumed that in their relatively insulated microhabitats, they would stay active and numerous all through the winter.
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Originally Posted by Pudding4brains
........... I was looking around for some Woodlice images. I'm basically a total nature nincompoop who started shooting low quality snapshots (not photos!) of all sorts of little critters around the summer of 2006 and learned a little bit about these animals since. Snapshots are basically aimed at documenting species for free projects such as Wikipedia, but for various reasons I haven't uploaded much of my collection yet.
Looked for a "small" group to learn a little more about and decided to start off with ladybirds and their larvae. Somewhere along the road, basically due to some dutch/german vernacular names confusion, got sidetracked with woodlice as well and as a consequence I'm currently preparing a website on the dutch woodlice that will run as a subsite of the fine dutch ladybird site Lieveheersbeestjes ( Stipple...).
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