Question...HELP

[Chris J. Durden]

  They are also called Rollups and Curly Bobs by some. Like earthworms and
humans they come in one pushy international flavor, much to the detriment
of their indigenous relatives.
.......Chris

At 06:47  7/10/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Daisy,
>
>Your son may be interested in a Pill Bug also called a Sow Bug or a
>Ballie Bug in my neighborhood.  They are terrestrial isopods, a type of
>crustacean that is dorso-ventrally flattened.  The majority of isopods
>are marine but during evolutionary time a branch landed and developed a
>terrestrial life style.
>
>http://www.uoguelph.ca/zoology/great_lakes/isopods/intro.htm
>
>You can pursue the topic at the Tree of Life page, where Isopoda is no
>longer evident due to rearrangements in how biologists think the
>crustacea evolved:
>
>http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/eukaryotes/animals/arthropoda/crustacea/c
rustacea.html
>
>Great Lakes Isopods:
>
>http://www.uoguelph.ca/zoology/great_lakes/isopods/
>
>Australian Isopods:
>
>http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~buz/popular.html
>
>Enjoy searching the WWW on Isopods.  I got about 973 hits with a simple
>Alta Vista search on Isopoda.
>
>Joe
>
>
>Daisy wrote:
>> 
>> My son is looking for information on a particular insect......kids call
it a
>> "rollie pollie" can anyone tell me the real name of this insect?  thanks!
>> 
>> Daisy
>
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>Joseph G. Kunkel, Professor
>Biology Department             joe at bio.umass.edu
>University of Massachusetts    http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/kunkel
>Amherst MA 01003
>
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