I found this interesting member of the family Leiodidae (round fungus beetles) whilst searching a colony of Trichia varia for…
These little ironclad beetles in the family Zopheridae (cylindrical bark beetles) do not have a common name. I found them…
This very common millipede is in the order Polydesmida (flat-backed millipedes) and the family Xystodesmidae. It is sometimes called by…
Oniscids in the family Armadillidiidae (order Isopoda) are the woodlice that are properly called pillbugs, rolypolies, and potatobugs, due to…
I love flipping a log or rock and finding these large beetles in the family Carabidae (which are also sometimes…
I thought it was fortuitous that I found a Woodlouse Hunter whilst working on my Oniscus asellus woodlouse post so…
Let’s just get this common name stuff out of the way. Woodlice is the standardized common name for the Oniscidea.…
As if snail identification wasn’t difficult enough, the taxonomy of Vespericola (family Polygyridae) is somewhat up in the air, with…
I’ve been avoiding doing any field cricket posts because there are many species and they are difficult to tell apart.…
Millipedes are in the same subphylum, Myriapoda, as centipedes, but they belong to their own class, Diplopoda. Within this class…