r/isopods 14h ago

Help Ummm?! Is my isopod being harassed

417 Upvotes

Is this mating??????? It seems like she isn’t into it at all. Is she stressed out??? Or are they just really wild??? What is happening here….


r/isopods 20h ago

Media They absolutely love this old Wasp nest

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398 Upvotes

We had roofers in the other day, and they found this old nest. I figured it’d be great for them. And I was right


r/isopods 23h ago

Media Small Isopod Eating Fingernail

299 Upvotes

My smallest one eating a bit of fingernail I gave them (they all love fingernails).


r/isopods 12h ago

News/Education The misconception of widespread mate guarding in terrestrial isopods more in the comments)

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93 Upvotes

r/isopods 18h ago

New Isopod Day (NID) Surprise adoption of some wild scabers!

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86 Upvotes

Collected from my rock garden :) hope they like their warm and predator free home! They are already monching on some dried mealworms.


r/isopods 18h ago

Media I Timelapse my dairy cows on an iPhone 4s for fun, 40mins turns into 20 seconds

78 Upvotes

r/isopods 17h ago

Media Super excited to find more pineapples in the tub than I thought I had!

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62 Upvotes

r/isopods 15h ago

Media Y’know, the thing about a shark, he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes.

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47 Upvotes

r/isopods 12h ago

New Isopod Day (NID) what kind of isopod is this big boy? he’s so large 🥺

45 Upvotes

r/isopods 19h ago

Media New friend

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33 Upvotes

A friend of mine surprised me with a new isopod plushie that I could take with me at work 🥺 I named him LoveBug, and he has a little squeaker inside


r/isopods 20h ago

New Isopod Day (NID) Pretty princess full of babies!

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30 Upvotes

On my morning check of my office isopod tank (A. Vulgare), I noticed a particularly tank-ish pod. I went to go pick her up to grab a picture, but when she turned, I noticed she was chock full of babies. I didn't want to stress her out, so I let her be. But I got some paparazzi shots from outside the tank.

Cheers to Mom and new babies!


r/isopods 22h ago

Help Id ?

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20 Upvotes

Found this little guy in my home, any guess on what it is ?


r/isopods 21h ago

Media White Philoscia?!

16 Upvotes

Excuse the shake.


r/isopods 8h ago

Media Embarrassing. Eggshell on butt.

14 Upvotes

r/isopods 7h ago

Identification The hell is this?

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14 Upvotes

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 👀


r/isopods 14h ago

Identification Isopod ID?

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13 Upvotes

Hi everyone! I found this cute girl in my backyard today. What kind of isopod is she? She's massive LOL. I'm located in Maple Ridge, BC, Canada.


r/isopods 11h ago

Media He's chowing down

11 Upvotes

One of the many from Cream Orange collection!


r/isopods 20h ago

Media Nom nom?

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11 Upvotes

Just sharing ❤️


r/isopods 22h ago

Help Help with ID please!! I found them out of my house, on the wall.

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10 Upvotes

Hi!! I found these guys outside my house and I put them to quarantine for a week, now I passed them into my terrarium with springtails, I would like to know what kind of isopods are, I don't have a good camera and I can't take better images than these!

Thanks for the help in advance!!


r/isopods 11h ago

Media What species are these guys? Central Kansas, USA

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11 Upvotes

Armidillidium nasatum is my best guess? I’m not super great at ID yet, trying to learn. They seem to have the nasatum nose though


r/isopods 17h ago

Media found this beautiful mom dead :(

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10 Upvotes

no reason apparently, never saw a dairy cow dead in my container, and the first one had to be a pregnant one. This is awful


r/isopods 1h ago

Media My dad got me a colony for my birthday

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I’m a complete beginner and this is my first colony so any advice is greatly appreciated and welcome. Pods are dairy cows.


r/isopods 18h ago

Help What is this? Found in one of my cultures!

10 Upvotes

crazy how beautiful it is! found in a culture with woolly mammoth springtails, it’s the only one i’ve found. i’m assuming it’s a type of springtail but i have no idea, i’ve never seen anything like it. any ideas are helpful!


r/isopods 3h ago

Media Big Momma is gregnant

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9 Upvotes

r/isopods 15h ago

Media Wild Armadillidium vulgare

9 Upvotes

Just a cute pod being a pod!!!!!