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Only, the mutant pill bugs who call the place home aren’t going to eat him.
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025
In an early scene, he is set upon by a shrieking, skittering swarm of creepers—imagine giant, whitish pill bugs with huge mandibles—and expects to be devoured (and resurrected) within seconds.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
Control snails, slugs and roly-polies (aka pill bugs) with Sluggo Plus, an iron phosphate product that is not toxic to birds, mammals (including us), caterpillars, butterflies, etc.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2024
The examples are numerous, from giant isopods that resemble overgrown pill bugs to the elusive colossal squid.
—Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
Control snails, slugs, and roly polies (aka pill bugs) with Sluggo Plus , an iron phosphate product that is not toxic to birds, mammals (including us), caterpillars, butterflies, etc.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2023
With their very real and not science fiction system, the researchers were able to successfully determine that pill bugs can exert about 10 micronewtons of force through their legs, which is about the same as what has been estimated using other techniques.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2023
These pill bug-like sea creatures first emerged 521 million years ago and died out 252 million years ago in the mass extinction that gave way to the dinosaurs.
—Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 23 Jan. 2023
Each of three cups adjacent to the machine contained a live pill bug.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2013
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025
In an early scene, he is set upon by a shrieking, skittering swarm of creepers—imagine giant, whitish pill bugs with huge mandibles—and expects to be devoured (and resurrected) within seconds.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
Control snails, slugs and roly-polies (aka pill bugs) with Sluggo Plus, an iron phosphate product that is not toxic to birds, mammals (including us), caterpillars, butterflies, etc.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2024
The examples are numerous, from giant isopods that resemble overgrown pill bugs to the elusive colossal squid.
—Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
Control snails, slugs, and roly polies (aka pill bugs) with Sluggo Plus , an iron phosphate product that is not toxic to birds, mammals (including us), caterpillars, butterflies, etc.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2023
With their very real and not science fiction system, the researchers were able to successfully determine that pill bugs can exert about 10 micronewtons of force through their legs, which is about the same as what has been estimated using other techniques.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2023
These pill bug-like sea creatures first emerged 521 million years ago and died out 252 million years ago in the mass extinction that gave way to the dinosaurs.
—Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 23 Jan. 2023
Each of three cups adjacent to the machine contained a live pill bug.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2013
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“Pill bug.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pill%20bug. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.
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