Country diary: wiggling wonder of the common woodlouse
by 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.