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  • I hate creepycrawlies but I like pill bugs

  • it helped soooo much!!!! thanks.

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  • wow this video is GREAT! Not only that it gives a really good idea of how to keep those bugs, it is also incredibly funny! LOL! My fav part is 0:54 to 1:02 :D

  • im gonna start a colony of these to supplement feeding my other pets. Nice video tho

  • @dreadfulcreation I was doing that too. I needed something to feed my spiders and these isopods are everywhere here in the Pac NW, and apparently a natural food source for the species I keep. Unfortunately, they are cute and I feel bad feeding them to the spiders. So much so, that I'm probably going to release all of my spiders. Dont worry, they'll do fine. They are indigenous to this area ( and just about every other)

  • Great video. U love keeping pill bugs.

    Also, sow bugs get along with pill bugs as they are a very similar species.

    You can sort it tell when u r looking at the bottom of a female pill bug. They tend to have two round plates near the rear. I believe they store the eggs underneath.

  • This video was actually very entertaining! I love that you've used humour as well as important instruction, as it breaks up the video a little. Awesome piece of work, FMCP! Subbed, and currently checking out your channel! I hope you have more like this!

  • Hey thanks for the lesson. I tried to take care of pillbugs before but I had no idea what to feed them so I tossed them aside.

  • I would get peat moss from Lowes, for $11 you can get enough to last a lifetime. It holds moisture the best.

    The largest ones I've seen are from Malaysia, which can reach just under 3" long and curl up to the size of an buffalo marble. I'd like to get a few of those!

  • Dude, can you do a video on caring for head lice? Mine keep dying. I don't know why. I never even bathe or wash my hair. My scabies are thriving so I don't know what's killing the head lice.

  • Pillbugs are a myriapod, not crustation :)

  • @bugzNstuff THEY ARE CRUSTATIONS SINCE THEY HAVE A LONG EXEO SKELETON AND BREATHE THROUGH MOISTURE IN THE AIR AND WATER

  • @bugzNstuff Isopods are crustaceans.

  • Pillbugs are a type of millipede not woodlice

  • @KingRob1998 Woodlice is a common term for isopods in the UK. They call aphids plant lice, too.

  • I kept woodlice in a glass tank with soil in it and they thrived. Great pets.

  • That was actually very interesting! Can`t believe you made me watch 9min about woodlice and enjoying it. great work. Thanks!

  • why do u keep on saying "odds are"

  • Hilarious video. Helps a lot.

  • So thats the shell i see outside on the dirt. I have tons of these. Starting this tomorrow

  • i can wait for tomorow cause ihave an old fish tank outside my house and an old table to i am going to get a pill bug colonie outside since i am not alowed stuff inside

  • i wanted to get a giant milipede but mum sid no she will say no to this too so i will just have to keep my pill bugs in secret!!!

  • Great video! 

  • i want to get woodlouse they look cool and easy to keep :D

  • You are hilariously good at this.

  • What a fantastic presentation. Thank you so much for sharing this. I am very impressed.

  • Nice to see a girl into detritivorous invertebrates for a change; thanks for the video.

  • Awesome Ive seen these on the iron rocks in the Caymans and i never knew what they were.

    I was lookin them up because Ive heard of people putting these in tarantula tanks to eat mold that grows in the tanks due to being to damp.

    thanks :o)

  • Great video! Also want to add that they can actually drown if theyre submerged for too long underwater. Found some dead ones in a shallow pond I dug up in the backyard before. Although they have gills, water just doesn't provide as much oxygen as the air does.

  • Could switching to geico really save you 50% or more on car insurance

    do you live under a rock?

    pillbug: T_T

  • lolz i love ths video make a part two it was really helpful!

  • Well I have to take care of these for biology, this video gave me all of the info I need! :)

  • This was a really well done video! I captured my own roly polies and did a science experiment on their behavior. What where some of the sources that you used?

  • :D :D :D

  • More vids please, very informational ,like it. I have a woodlice jar thanks to you. Great job ,there very interesting.

  • thanks for the advice :P I have like 2 or 3 pill bugs in my hermit crab tank as janitors of a sort I will try to make the tank so that they can both survive in the tank happily XD

  • that is the most indepth vid about pill bugs! the mist boring but tastey snack in the woods. you kept me captivated to the end. You should become a teacher of some sort. Especially if u can take something boring and make it Fun! Great jod dude!

  • @animalcollector102 soz it took so long, females have orangy brown bellies and males have grey

  • Does it take long to set up an enclosure for  them?

  • Great job kid. You just got added to my favorites. Very informative!

  • Great information, thanks for taking the time to explain all the details. They are fun animals.

  • I've made a woodlouse house today thanks to your advice :D Is a tin okay? like a tin you'd get chocolates in? It seems to be perfectly fine x3 I've picked rather a lot, cause I didn't know how many would survive.. They seem to be doing fine x3

  • i just found a pill bug today. it is kind of small. thanks for the tips

  • I keep a woodlouse spider with my woodlice to keep things interesting.

  • cheers for the vid i have a aquarium of them and it started from 10 to about 100 now im gonna think about getting something bigger but there ok for now(if theres a dead woodouse in the tank should i let the others eat the decaying carcass?

  • @omgwookienookie It never seemed to hurt mine any to leave the decaying carcasses in there; I imagine it might give them a little extra calcium in their diets too.

  • @omgwookienookie They eat the carcasses of other pillbugs because the armor contains some sort of calcium. I can't remember what it's actually called, but it makes the pillbug's armor stronger, so it's actually a good thing, and it means that you don't have to remove the dead ones!

  • @Jaybeat2k6 CHEERS!

  • Keep and care for Woodlice? Lol? I saw some outside eating bits of a dead slug so I picked one up and disected it for fun.

  • do they eat dryed mushrooms? (i have some hamster food with different forest plants dried and they dont eat mushrooms for some reason)

  • Excellent video!!! I use these to keep some of my Tarantula tanks clean :) They do a good job at keeping the high humidity tanks free of mold and other nasties :)

  • I have woodlice at my woodlice terrarium. What do they eat? Where do they rest?

  • i was reading that its best to keep a bottlecap with water in it in the cage if i doo that do i still have to spray them or is the cap just for drinking

  • @PurpleMelon18 It couldn't hurt to put in a bottle cap of water but if you keep the ground moist it's not necessary and the ground has to be moist

  • when i was little, i pulled out a rock in some hole in my yard and an ASS LOAD of pill bugs were spilling out and i was like WTF???

  • This is a great video btw how can you sex a woodlice? And what do they eat? Plz !!!! Tell me soon cause every time I lift a rock I see Like 10 !!!

  • @animalcollector102 I never really figured out how to tell the sexes apart, it really depends on the species. I think there's supposed to be some difference in the body structure but I could never see it. I usually just put in a bunch and chances are there'll be some male and some female.

    As for what they eat, pretty much anything you feel like putting in that's vaguely edible: fruits, vegetables, grass, leaves, flowers, etc. They are detritivores or scavengers, after all.

  • @flamingmuffincowpie girls have brown dots on back boys have one plain color

  • @flamingmuffincowpie i figured to just put them in your hand the males bite and the bemales roll up

  • @animalcollector102 ..... Female woodlice have brood pouches, if you flip them over you will see that either she has a bulging egg case under here (if pregnant) or a small yellowish pouch (if not). Females are also very large and rounded, they are larger than a male. The male is is smaller and shorter than the female. Their body is slim and short. If you flip them over you may see that at the bottom end they have their seminal tube that is encased in a chitinous sheath.

  • lol loved the vid by the way is it true you have to remove all males when the females lay eggs??? plz reply!!!

  • @GirlSpiritWolf Well, I never bother to do any regulating of my pillbugs and without any effort there were babies running all over the place..so I would say no, probably not.

  • @flamingmuffincowpie thx so much i got the pill bugs now and they are awsome!!!

  • gross

  • Great video! Will they also live well in a Bio-Terrarium environment?

  • i was laughing the entire time. very well done video!! loved the various images and stuff thrown in. really enjoyed this. <3 will be raising some of these for my little frogs. :)

  • 8:46 lol

  • im a girl but i still love pillbugs

  • Excellent video! :) It helped me alot.

  • LOL I've raised them every summer ever since i was in like 1st grade... I put some moist fish food flakes packed down in tiny shells for them to eat and in the morning its all gone..

  • 7:05 IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL THERE ARE TWO ISLANDS THE ONE TWO THE RIGHT IS WHERE I LIVE IT IS CALLED GUERNSEY ITS GREAT AND WE ALSO HAVE WOOD LOUSE IN GUERNSEY (IN THE WILD.)

  • Informative, eloquent, and very entertaining. Cheers!

  • grat information! i have been taking care on mine for a week now but i don't like to look under rocks because we have black widows and posionious snakes instead i walk around my driveway in the months may-september because thats thier mating season i find it eaiser the keep them alive be putting a wet paper towel in their every day. (LOL this is a long comment!)

  • @morgan1999123 I don not believe that black widows live under rocks. Are they not web making spiders?

  • i have cared for mine for over 5 months and got mine to breed off the bat. But it helps to live in a semi tropical environment.

  • I though it waz a joke....

  • @OlgaTheBrownFox No, pillbugs have smooth skin. Woodlice have bumpy rough skin. Your welcome :)

  • Some people find them tasty too

  • Nice job :) I've been taking care of pill bugs for about 5 years now. It's super fun and great for teaching the kids responsibility without having to buy a puppy and find them not taking care of it.

    Again, great job on the video!

  • I finnaly got mine to breed :p now theres thousands LOL. now i have to get a new container.

  • Awesome tutorial, thanks!

  • what exquisite creatures

  • Is it alright to put isopods in an enclosure that also holds african black millipeds?

  • @Chaoitcme yes. They shouldn't harm your millipedes.

  • @Dimunic Thanks for the reply. I have a 20 gal tank with two juvenile giant african black millipedes. I need isopods for mite problems in my tarantula enclosures. I think that they would like the environment I keep my millipedes in. Humid and with lots of places to hide under along with decomposing materials.

  • @Chaoitcme Millipedes share a symbiotic relationship with mites.... you may not want to kill those. Mites clean out the carapace of pede. For tarantulas sure. Just not for pedes if thats your intention.

  • can you take a birds eye view of your woodlice and container, just so i can see what kind of things you put in yours...

  • This is fabulous. Better information and more fun than reading all the articles. My son can't wait to keep pill bugs.

  • The calender not to far off heh

  • i call them "roly polies" lol but a tip! they LOVE rotting leaves and nuts. etc. since i live in washington its eas for me to find that stuff.

  • This video was both well done and hilarious... I'm thinking about breeding pill bugs to keep in my hermit crab tanks (as janitors) and this was pretty helpful

  • i call them potato bugs. Because Mine eat potatos.

  • "Voilà! Instant moistification." lol awesome

  • @modern460 Yes but mostly when they have young and then once there grown they stop and leave there young

  • @modern460 Yes but mostly when they have young and then once ther grown they stop and leave there young

  • You know you can buy pillbugs with food? But it is kind of dumb

  • @Godzillafan9000 yes but look up the type you have cause some could be Poissoness X (

  • I put my rollie pollies in a small tupaware container then because i live in a veary humid area i dont have to realy sprits them often and i feed them egg shell letuce and old grapes.

  • dude i misted my pet pill bugs and they all died. U LIAR u dont mist them and they dont have gills stupid if they did, they would die on land.....

  • @prankmaster202 lol MURDERER!!!!!!!! MURDERER!!!!!!

  • @uptownla5o4 rofl

  • hey! i just got 3 new ones.. is it normal when a pill bug eats the little baby pill bugs? because my other one victor does and so i put in a different container/tank

  • I love pill bugs so much! I found mine underneath a dead pant lol there were about a 100 :) thnx for the help! :) I made my tank a 2 level :) but dont worry the walls are very very high and the walls are plasic :)

  • ewWww no offence but i dont really like them. i see like one or two a week on my bed room wall and they freak me out anybody know how i can stop this from happening? :) please

  • a fancy word for poo...

  • Will it be a good idea to have them in the same tank as my stick insects. I've heard it helps but I'm not sure.

  • good info! i breed woodlice to feed my frogs.

  • they are crustaceans, like lobsters, crabs and prawns u can roast and eat them but i dont think they'd make very good pets :/

  • your creepy and crawly.

  • did you know you can make a pillbug trap of a potato. take a raw potato cut it in half. hollow out the underside of the potato a bit for the pillbugs to sit in. make a entrance or else they cant get in. duh... basically make a potato iglo. i used to put it in a corner of the basement overnight. knowledge

  • loved your video, and loved your humor. Im going to try and give this little guy a nice home now

  • I'm looking to buy a giant millipede and also a carnivorous leech. I have medicinal leeches now as pets:)

  • The ending was quite creepy but nice vid. I actually breed these for my reptiles.

  • @Godzillafan9000 I'd imagine they could escape a cage (especially any babies), and since Pill Bugs live in moist habitats with rotting plant matter the shoebox will go soggy and rot away and let them escape - plus Pill Bugs can eat cardboard, so they could tunnel themselves out,

    Use a plastic container, anything will do really, an ice-cream container will do nicely if you only have a few Pill Bugs.

  • that part at the end scared the crap out of me.

    Nice video kid.

  • Keep them to eat my millipede poor and they can snack on the food thats in there.

  • Very well done video, bits of humor, funny pics and excellent narration.

  • thnx i just got mine today and just a few minets ago it took your advise! :-)

  • i have over 200 pill bugs in a glass quarium in my green house shed but how do you know if one is boy or girl and how do they mate????

  • i have 200 but how do you know which one is boy or girl or how they mate???

  • good work on this video!

    my kids and I enjoyed it!

  • Really good, i learned a lot!! My woodlice are now very happy in their little home :)

  • Really good, i learned a lot!! My woodlice are now very happy in their little home :) 

  • Great little film.

  • hey wat r the difference between the 1s tht roll up and the 1s tht dont?

  • Great video! Good editing, script, and handling of scenes. Keep up the good work!

  • Thanks for tutorial! it's great!

  • This is the best video on you tube! I am glad I'm not the only one who loves woodlice, I used to have a pet palmetto bug in Florida, had her since she was a speck and she lived 4 years. She loved yoghurt. RIP Mahogany.

  • thx this helped :)

  • how can I tell if it is a girl or a boy?

  • cool vid. are pill bugs high in protein because I m feeding them to my oscar fish (this may not be the most appropriate comment) :P

  • Ahahaha this is awesome dude!! Nice work it was hilarious AND educational..that's extremely rare!! This vid makes me want to go have a pill bug farm!! Keep it up!

  • pill bugs look like pill millipedes but they're completly different. pillbugs and wood louse are arthropods or land crustations. they're relatives live in the sea, and the deep sea ones can get to 15 inches!! amazing life

  • because they're awesome, thats why XD

  • i found a metal pipe in my yard, got it out, dropped it on the floor and hundreds of woodlice and earwigs came out. they are too many, they're getting in the house, how do i kill them? (i like them, but they've gone too far)

  • awesome video!!!! it made learning about ti fun:)

  • GREAT video dudde!!!!!!!!!

    im taking care of dem too!!!!!! haha lol

    thx for da video :)

  • LOL i have never heard about keeping pill bugs as pets once again, LOL

  • i feed my pillbugs potato and carrots

  • Awesome vid, mate. I'll subscribe to you now! You have a good sense of humor and I like your drawings. Thanks for teaching me how to properly take care of wood lice.

  • i played those when i was little lol. i have no idea how is it call and what they eat.

  • just get a dog

  • that drawing of pillbug on the table is cute =D

  • thx

  • thx thx

  • moistification. i love this video

  • Your hilarious! i love you man!

  • Awesome video! We are making a home for our rolly poly bugs now! Thanks! :)

  • Awesome video! We are making a home for our rolly poly bugs now! Thanks! :)

  • Where I live they are called rolly-pollys

  • skip to 1:15

  • Yeah, lots of terrestrial crustaceans can drown easily. there gills have somewhat differentiated from there Oceanic ancestors, of which there are still representatives.

  • do they bite.i put a woodlouse spider in a container with the pill bugs is that a good idea?

  • great video, in information and humor... I'm off to look for some now.

  • how do you know the different's between female and male?:) and how do you make a little woodlice?too. thank you whoever reply's ill subscribe to them. thankyou.:)X

  • hey i hav a group of pillbug. i hav about 10 in a snake tank and i think i'm going something wrong. not sure.

  • awesome vid. i liked it a lot.^^ i'm not sure if i knew they were crustations or not. i used to study insects, reptiles, and anything else that people normally think to be discussing or creepy (like bats and spiders). from what i've found, it seems that everything in nature is hated by the vast majority of people. including amoebas. although half the people i talked to about them in public don't even know what an amoeba is but still think it's disgusting for it's name.

  • Nice video, very funny in parts! I just started a colony today.

  • I've got a gold fish bowl, the total land/dirt in the bottom is about 3 inches by 4 inches, how many bugs do you think I could keep in it?

    as well, one thing you may want to mention in any other videos you make, I notice that the ones that don't roll up are more shy, mine stay hidden under the bark literally all the time, the ones that do roll up stay out thought

  • good informations

  • females got brown spots and males are black

  • I use my old goldfish boll

  • i always wondered y my old pill pugs (which i was experementing on, not hurting tho) they actualy went underwater and stayed there

  • Very well made film! And great info, thanks!

  • these guys are crustaceans. they breathe through gills thats why they live in damp envyronment like under rocks

  • hahaha rollie pollies dont drown, me and my friend were playing around and put some in a bird feeder (lol) they lived for 4 weeks sitting there and eating algae and mold

  • dude you have cool pics but the cartoon things or whatever it make me luagh

  • Now I feel guilty for killing them in my toilet. =x

  • why toilet why not outside or whatever things

  • @mirmoth99 I was wondering how they appeared there instead of what's mentioned in the video...

  • Awesome vid. Laughed a lot XD How do I know which are male and female??

  • i feed my pillbug carrots and chalk is that good