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Old 20-09-2006, 04:17 PM posted to austin.gardening
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Steve Wertz wrote:

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:00:30 GMT, Scott Sexton wrote:

Been finding a few of these on the tile next to one of my indoor plants.
Anyone have any idea what it is?

http://www.sexton.com/bug/bug.jpg


Actually, it is a shrimp (found by searching for "bug that looks
like shrimp")

Lawn Shrimp. A kind of pill bug:
http://whatsthatbug.com/Pill.html

-sw


Good find Steve!
I used to play with pill bugs as a child and I've never seen those
before. :-)

I pretty much leave pill bugs alone as they make good composters.

Wonder what lawn shrimp are good for?
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