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!
2007-06-05 08:56:20 · 8 answers · asked by bear1oh1 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
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.
2007-06-05 09:08:18 · answer #1 · answered by gardengallivant 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
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.
2007-06-05 09:06:59 · answer #2 · answered by Becca R 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sadly I am a rollie poly and I eat absolutely anything which probably accounts for it.
2007-06-06 02:19:38 · answer #3 · answered by Budge 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Pillbugs eat rotting organic matter. Rotting wood is fine.
2016-04-01 03:58:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
New tender plant growth and seedlings along with decaying leaves and stuff.
2007-06-05 09:07:16 · answer #5 · answered by thegubmint 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Try small flying insects, but MAINLY decaying vegetation.
2007-06-05 09:05:52 · answer #6 · answered by Gretchen 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
what on earth is a rollie pollie??? i thought they danced on les dawsons show,, and they ate everything and lots of it
2007-06-05 09:06:15 · answer #7 · answered by country boy 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
They eat all the pies, ask Simple Simon, he provides them.
2007-06-05 09:04:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
your mom
2015-06-11 06:16:22 · answer #9 · answered by Patrick 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
dirt?
2007-06-05 09:03:32 · answer #10 · answered by Mrs. Bethy O. 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋