Article 3TEJV Country diary: wiggling wonder of the common woodlouse

Country diary: wiggling wonder of the common woodlouse

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Kate Blincoe
from Science | The Guardian on (#3TEJV)

Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: We relish the new vocabulary that comes with these terrestrial isopods - and how to tell the difference between males and females


It's not every day a woodlouse expert comes to tea. My children made a mad dash to hunt under logs in the garden to supply Beth, a soil scientist who studied woodlice at university, with specimens so she could show us how to tell males from females.

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