Pest Organisms / Common Pillbug
Sources
for Common Pillbug
How we know: this page draws only on university extension and government taxonomic sources. - ITIS (itis.gov) — scientific name, authority, and full classification (Malacostraca, Isopoda, Armadillidiidae). Source: https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=93250 - University of Florida IFAS Featured Creatures — identification, biology, reproduction, origin, diet, crop damage, exclusion. Source: https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/IN1099 - UC IPM (University of California) — decomposer role, plant damage, sowbug vs pillbug, moisture management. Source: https://ipm.ucanr.edu/home-and-landscape/pillbugs-and-sowbugs/ - University of Minnesota Extension — human-health safety, home entry, exclusion, moisture. Source: https://extension.umn.edu/insect-relatives/sowbugs-millipedes-and-centipedes - University of Missouri Extension — human-health safety, nuisance status, seasonality, sanitation, pesticide-as-last-resort. Source: https://extension.missouri.edu/publications/g7362 - Mississippi State University Extension — beneficial decomposer / nutrient-recycling role. Source: https://extension.msstate.edu/newsletters/bugs-eye-view/2020/pillbugs-vol-6-no-24
Review status: unreviewed (draft).