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Yard work: Do wood bug shells turn white after death?

Jack May 13, 2025 Tagged with pill bugs, sow bugs, wood bugs

Self-tutoring about things ones encounters in the yard: the tutor mentions wood bug shells. Yesterday, cleaning gravel along a foundation, I kept seeing white shells of deceased bugs. They looked like wood bug shells, but were white. Was I seeing …

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Yard work: wood bugs

Jack Jul 21, 2016 Tagged with pill bugs, sow bugs, wood bugs

The tutor brings up a species (two, actually) that are common here. In BC, “wood bug” refers to either of two animals: the sow bug or else the pill bug. They are very similar, so here, they share the handle …

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Yard work: Do wood bug shells turn white after death?

Yard work: wood bugs