Orange Expansus
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Very cool! How big are they?
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Adults can reach 35mm (1.37 inches) in length!
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Love the white spots that they have.
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Amazing! I’ve been considering some isopods, these are gorgeous!
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Fun fact: these pillbug rolly-polly isopods aren’t bugs at all but are instead crustaceans like shrimp, lobster, crayfish and crabs are.
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I really like when you drop fun facts for us
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I’m not 100% sure if the roly-poly pillbugs and isopods are the same thing but ya the roly-poly pillbugs are apparently crustaceans and not insects or arachnids…still in the invert phylum arthropoda though. Another random fact: Fungi like mushrooms, molds, yeast etc are more closely related to the Animal kingdom than the Plant one even though mushrooms may seem more like a plant. They are heterotrophic (need to eat other things for food) like animals instead of autotrophic (making own food ie photosynthesis) like plants…at least for the most part anyway…
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I actually knew this one!! I love fun facts, and sharing them makes it better
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These are cool!
We have a few different types here, but My fav though by far are the dairy cows. Have a big ol colony going I just love them 
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Roly polys, as we call them, are isopods. Freshwater scuds, common genera include Gammarus and Hyalella, are often called shrimp. They are, in fact, aquatic isopods.
I heard some fancy restaurants are serving giant terrestrial isopods on the menu these days.
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I’ve been seeing so many isopods lately and it makes me SO happy! These little ones are so neat!! Gorgeous specimens!!
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Thank you 
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