What do rollie polllies eat?
Question:my neighbor's and i are catch rollie pollies and we do not know what they eat and also they are having babies... how do we take care of them i need help!
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These little guys are isopods. Essentially land shrimp. They need a constantly moist (not sodden) environment like the inside of a rotting log or the compost pile. That is also what they eat, forest debris, decaying plants parts. Try them with you kitchen scraps like apple, or lettuce and a fine selection of fresh leaf trimmings from the garden. To keeep them in a terrarium you can use an old auqarium with a shallow dish of water surounded with soil and moss to keep them in the damp they like. (For right now wet a paper towel and put it in with them as they must not dry out.)
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Do you have a pill bug or a sow bug. Pills can completely roll into a ball but sows just make close little u-shapes. There is also a millipede pillbug, also a decomposer but not an isopod. The millipede is black with more than 7 pairs of legs. In Latin it is called Glomeris marginata.
dirt?
They eat all the pies, ask Simple Simon, he provides them.
Try small flying insects, but MAINLY decaying vegetation.
what on earth is a rollie pollie? i thought they danced on les dawsons show,, and they ate everything and lots of it
Rollie Pollies are also knows as sowbugs or pillbugs. They are terrestrial isopods. They can bite/pinch you so becareful handling them. They feed mostly on decaying plant matter so if you have a dead tree or a mulch pile use some of that. Put a little dirt on the bottom of their 'cage/home/whatever you want to call it" and them give them some of the food/housing. They will probaby hide in or under the material.
New tender plant growth and seedlings along with decaying leaves and stuff.
Sadly I am a rollie poly and I eat absolutely anything which probably accounts for it.
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