Total mercury (HgT) concentrations (x ± SD, dry weight) for the captured specimens ranged from 22 to 188 ng g − 1 in the Jerusalem crickets (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae); 65 — 233 ng g − 1 in the camel crickets (Orthoptera: Rhaphidophoridae); 25 — 227 ng g − 1
in the pill bugs (Isopoda: Armadillidiidae); 19 — 563 ng g − 1 in the ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae); 140 — 441 ng g − 1 in the variegated meadowhawk dragonflies (Odonata: Libellulidae); 607 — 657 ng g − 1 in the pacific spiketail dragonflies (Odonata: Cordulegastridae); and 81 — 1,249 ng g − 1 in the wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae).
In nature this mechanism is also seen
in pill bugs and armadillos.
Depending on the season, banging a rock with a shovel or axe may result
in a pill bug, centipede or house centipede appearing; this is the only way of finding them.
Not exact matches
The groups were given live
pill bugs and told to shoo them into boxes described as «exterminators» (
in reality, the boxes held the
bugs unharmed).
The sow
bugs or
pill bugs that spent time
in the container with the dry soil probably only stayed there temporarily before going back to the damp soil.
Background You can often find sow
bugs and
pill bugs in damp, dark places, like the soil under rocks or decaying wood.
Observations and results Did most of the sow
bugs or
pill bugs end up
in the damp soil environment?
They started with arthropods, measuring mercury concentrations
in wolf spiders, camel crickets and
pill bugs.
People gobble them up
in probiotic yogurts, swallow
pills packed with billions of
bugs and recoil from hand sanitizers.
A team of microbiotic researchers affiliated with Harvard University Medical School plan to launch a company this fall that aims to find and purify the best
bugs from the feces of elite athletes and then market them as probiotic supplements
in pill, liquid or powder form.
Currently the only way for me to feel even 50 % okay is to take both a
pill probiotic with very high bifidus (of course there are lots of strains of that
bug, and you never know what's
in your bottle, and so I have to experiment to find the right one and hope they don't change it)....
Pill Bugs appear
in all games
in the Animal Crossing series.
As with all insects
in the Animal Crossing series, the
Pill Bug can be donated to the Museum by talking to Blathers, who will give a small speech about it.
In its defense, the Edge — with its rounded,
pill -
bug shape — does at least stand out among the multitude of crossovers on the market.
«Down a path worn into the woods, past a stream and a hollowed - out log full of
pill bugs and termites, was a glass coffin... and
in it slept a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives.»