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Control snails, slugs and roly-polies (aka pill bugs) with Sluggo Plus, an iron phosphate product that is not toxic to birds, mammals (including us), caterpillars, butterflies, etc.
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Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2024
The examples are numerous, from giant isopods that resemble overgrown pill bugs to the elusive colossal squid.
—Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
Control snails, slugs, and roly polies (aka pill bugs) with Sluggo Plus , an iron phosphate product that is not toxic to birds, mammals (including us), caterpillars, butterflies, etc.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2023
With their very real and not science fiction system, the researchers were able to successfully determine that pill bugs can exert about 10 micronewtons of force through their legs, which is about the same as what has been estimated using other techniques.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2023
These pill bug-like sea creatures first emerged 521 million years ago and died out 252 million years ago in the mass extinction that gave way to the dinosaurs.
—Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 23 Jan. 2023
Each of three cups adjacent to the machine contained a live pill bug.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2013
The warrior and her pet pill bug, Tuk Tuk, must find the last dragon, Sisu, to save Kumandra from the Druun once again.
—Seventeen, 31 Aug. 2022
At one point, Ramgopal paused to rescue a pill bug from the hallway floor.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
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Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2024
The examples are numerous, from giant isopods that resemble overgrown pill bugs to the elusive colossal squid.
—Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024
Control snails, slugs, and roly polies (aka pill bugs) with Sluggo Plus , an iron phosphate product that is not toxic to birds, mammals (including us), caterpillars, butterflies, etc.
—Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 June 2023
With their very real and not science fiction system, the researchers were able to successfully determine that pill bugs can exert about 10 micronewtons of force through their legs, which is about the same as what has been estimated using other techniques.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2023
These pill bug-like sea creatures first emerged 521 million years ago and died out 252 million years ago in the mass extinction that gave way to the dinosaurs.
—Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 23 Jan. 2023
Each of three cups adjacent to the machine contained a live pill bug.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2013
The warrior and her pet pill bug, Tuk Tuk, must find the last dragon, Sisu, to save Kumandra from the Druun once again.
—Seventeen, 31 Aug. 2022
At one point, Ramgopal paused to rescue a pill bug from the hallway floor.
—E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
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“Pill bug.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pill%20bug. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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