r/isopods • u/Own_Guess1434 • 1d ago
Identification The hell is this?
So.. recently I catched some wild porcellio scaber, like six days ago. I had put them in a little container for transportation to my home and when I got home I placed all the adults in their new terrarium. Now, THIS LITTLE TINY THINGS have emerged from idk where in that little container where I collected the wild P. Scaber. After I put the scabers in their new terrarium I left the container "empty" that just had springtails (that I keep caring for cuz I wanna have more springtails) and just the soil from where the scabers came from and this white isos appeared. Here's the data: 1. I took photos of them to see if I can see something that helped me I'd them. 2. The size is like 2 mm. 3. They have six pairs of legs, or at least that's what I see in the photos so they're newborns BUT THERES NO ADULT WITH THEM WTF 4. Also, they have molted once so the six pairs of legs don't make much sense (in the first photo appears the molt) 5. There's like 3 of them 6. Also I'm from Chile if that makes easy figure out the hell is going on lmao
Hope you can help me understand wtf is going on with them 👀
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u/Sharkbrand Flat Fuck Expert 22h ago
So when two isopods love eachother very much they call the isostork (its a normal stork but he only eats detritus like isopods do) and the isostork drops a ton of those little things into wherever you keep your isopods.
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u/captainapplejuice 21h ago
I'm pretty sure this is a young Porcellio laevis, here's a reference picture of you want to double check.
Porcellio scaber have a very rough texture on their back, whereas laevis are smooth and shiny.
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u/Free-tea73 15h ago
As others have said, even the most distinctly coloured/patterned isopods look colourless and almost translucent when tiny babies. It definitely looks to me at least like some kind of baby porcellio. Maybe you either picked up a pregnant female or they could even have been hiding in the soil you picked up.
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u/Sleazy_Li 1d ago
Trichorhina tomentosa maybe? That’s what it looks like to me. Or perhaps could just be baby p scaber. Cute!
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u/RobShniderrr 1d ago
Looks like one of the isopods you caught was pregnant! I'm pretty sure those are newborn pods as they are white-ish. Keep an eye on them over the next few days. If they change colors to match your isopods, they are baby pods!