Do Rolly Pollies Need Water?

Answer 1

I don't care now, I just want to go see the rolly polly ranch mentioned by chainsawmom (can you train aphids to ride, bucking Rolly Pollies)

I just leave out little Rolly Pollie plastic glasses with lemonade (they also like Cranberry juice) and they seem to be content...

They extract moisture from decaying plant matter....(I just don't think they hang around the trought like the other cattle)

Answer 2

I love rolly pollies. This is what I know about them. They are also called sow or pill bugs. Sowbugs are land crustaceans that are small with oval bodies. Their back is really a number of overlapping plates. They have 7 pairs of legs. A pillbug looks rounder and will roll itself into a ball whenever it feels threatened. Sowbugs have gills which need constant moisture, so they live in moister climates. They are nocturnal and love to eat decaying vegetable matter and dead leaves. Some people think they are pests. So, yes, they need water. We used to have a rolly polly ranch for a while and even made little fences and barns for them.

Answer 3

Yes they do. Spray some water on a left and put it with the Rolly Pollies. Don't put a alot of water with the Rolly Pollies they will drowned.
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Answer 4

Woodlice (known locally under many names; see below) are terrestrial crustaceans with a rigid, segmented, calcareous exoskeleton and fourteen jointed limbs. They form the suborder Oniscidea within the order Isopoda, with over 3000 known species.

Woodlice need moisture because they breathe through gills, called pseudotrachea, and so are usually found in damp, dark places, such as under rocks and logs. They are usually nocturnal and are detritivores, feeding mostly on dead plant matter. They should be considered beneficial garden organisms as they recycle nutrients back into the soil. In artificial environments such as greenhouses where it can be very moist, woodlice may become abundant and damage young plants.

In the United Kingdom there are 37 native or naturalised species ranging in colour and in size (3-30 mm) of which only five are common: Oniscus asellus (the common shiny woodlouse), Porcellio scaber (the common rough woodlouse), Philoscia muscorum (the common striped woodlouse), Trichoniscus pusillus (the common pygmy woodlouse) and Armadillidium vulgare (the common pill bug).

They have a shell-like exoskeleton. As the woodlouse grows, it must progressively shed this shell. The moult takes place in two stages. The back half is lost first, followed two or three days later by the front. Some woodlice are able to roll into a ball-like form when threatened by predators, leaving only their armoured back exposed. This ability explains many of the woodlouse's common names.

A female woodlouse will keep fertilised eggs in a patch on the underside of her body until they hatch into small, pink offspring. The mother then appears to "give birth" to her offspring.
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Common names

Common names for woodlice vary throughout the English-speaking world. They include roly-poly, pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium), sow bug, doodle bug, carpenter (in Newfoundland, Canada), woodbug, potato bug, armadillo bug, slater, ball bug, bowling ball bug, chuggy pig, hardy back, butcher boy, daddy gramfer / daddy gampfer (West Country, United Kingdom), cheesybug (Kent, United Kingdom), and cheeselog.

Answer 5

I think so because everytime I water my grass they come out to play.

Answer 6

well yea they do because everything that lives or does something needs water for energy

Answer 7

Well they must.....I am infested in my gardens with them and its nice an moist there. Little snots are eating my plants!

Answer 8

I'm sure they do.
I know they like my zucchini leaves.