Researchers introduce a novel imaging method to detect gold nanoparticles in woodlice. Their method, known as four-wave mixing microscopy, flashes light that the gold nanoparticles absorb. The light ...

The progress of man-made nanoparticles through the natural environment is of great concern to researchers, but tracking them in living systems has always been challenging. A project at Cardiff ...

WASHINGTON, April 11, 2023 – The woodlouse goes by many names: roly-poly, pill bug, potato bug, tomato bug, butchy boy, cheesy bob, and chiggy pig, to name just a few. It is best known for contracting ...

Lots of adults dislike woodlice. Some are physically revolted by them. But this distaste is cultural rather than innate since most small children are well-disposed towards woodlice and happy to handle ...

Male tegumental glands are present in some species of woodlice (Isopoda, Trichoniscidae Sars, 1899). The cave trichoniscid Cyphonethes herzegowinensis (Verhoeff, 1900) possesses such structures on the ...