[ExI] blue bug

[William Flynn Wallace]

Yes, cool!  But please get your technical terms correct:

This is a rolly-polly and nothing else.

bill w

On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 12:06 AM, <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

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> Cool!  I was out walking this afternoon and saw what looked like an
> armadillo bug, but it was blue.  I have seen millions of those things, but
> I have never seen a blue one.  I took him home, looked it up and learned a
> lotta cool stuff.
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> I already knew armadillo bugs (some call them pill bugs or woodlice)
> aren’t insects or arachnids, but I learned that they are crustaceans, the
> most common of the few crustaceans that are terrestrial.
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> Then the next cool thing: blue woodlice are ones that have a virus!  No
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> He didn’t act like he was feeling lousy (or what it would mean if a
> woodlouse felt lousy) but I guess it would be hard to tell.
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> Bugs are so cool.
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