Stats

Lifespan: 2-3 years
Size: Tiny
Diet: Omnivore
Activity: Nocturnal
Social: Colony
Biome: Temperate forest
Range: Europe
Movement: Walking
Breeding: Live Birth
Defense: Armor
Status: Common

About

This woodlouse lives in damp soil and leaf litter across Britain and North America. It possesses a protruding nose-like plate used to wedge into tight crevices when threatened.

Life cycle

1.
juvenile
A juvenile crustacean takes adult form after its larval phase, growing in stages between molts.
2.
adult
Fully grown at adult size and full hard shell.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Family: Armadillidiidae
Genus: Armadillidium
Species: Armadillidium nasatum