OAK HARBOR, Wash. — These are not pests. They’re pets! "There are thousands of isopods in this house," laughed Narissa Jackson, who's raising them in bins in her Whidbey Island home. Isopods are not ...
Pillbugs and sowbugs are not bugs at all. Unlike our other garden inhabitants, they are a type of crustacean called an isopod. They are more closely related to lobsters and shrimp than to any insect.
The head of Bathynomus vaderi, a newly described species of giant isopod found in Southeast Asian waters Nguyen Thanh Son Move aside, lobster—a newly described giant isopod from Vietnam is now a ...