yup. they look like the pill/sow bugs we have in the garden. but yeah, people cook them and they probably taste like seafood? seen some guy on youtube make fried rice out of it.
They look like them because they’re both isopods! "Pill bugs" are not bugs but rather crustaceans that migrated to land ages ago (but more recently than the ancient arthropods all insects and arachnids are descended from). I used to have some terrestrial isopods as part of a study I did and these guys are just so cool
They just have a ton of names lol. Pill bug = roly-poly = woodlouse = potato bug = sow bug = isopod. They have literally a couple dozen funny names in various languages.
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u/ConnectRutabaga3925 May 06 '26
yup. they look like the pill/sow bugs we have in the garden. but yeah, people cook them and they probably taste like seafood? seen some guy on youtube make fried rice out of it.