Woodlice

Woodlice have a rigid segmented, long exoskeleton and fourteen jointed limbs. In New Zealand we call them slaters.

They eat dead plant material, and they are usually active at night.

They can be found under wood that is on the ground and under plants, weeds in cracks in the concrete.

I lifted a piece of wood up outside at home and found a heap of woodlice. They were all grouped together and then they all ran away to find somewhere to hide.

The next day I went outside and found some woodlice there were lots of them under a weed.

I think there were 30 woodlice it looked to be a whole family there as they were from tiny babies to adults.

The colours varied between white when they are little to dark grey when they are big.

From watching the woodlice I have found that they like to hide and when I disturbed them they all ran the found a new hiding place.  

By Courtney

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