Hey everyone. Welcome back to the show. I really hope you enjoyed the last couple days of beats, but we are moving on to a bug. This is the pill bug. Is this a good bug or is it a bad bug in the garden?

The truth is it might actually be both.

Now they're also known as Rolypoles,

Doodlebugs, pillbugs, whatever you call them,

they are very popular little garden dwellers.

As a kid I used to play with these all the time.

I was absolutely fascinated by their ability

to roll up into a little ball.

And then so you could roll them down the driveway

or mess around with them, I't know as a kid I was

very obsessed with bugs frogs and lizards like to eat them and they're found in

almost every party in the United States as well as many, many different areas around the world.

But the real question is, are they an actual problem in the garden?

I think this is a popular point of confusion for many gardeners.

They actually don't know if it's a pest or a beneficial.

So let's go ahead and get into it.

First of all, we need to know what they are and what they are not.

The most common pill bug, Armadilidium, nope, Armadilidium,

Armadilodium Vulgarae. I like to incorporate my mistakes into the podcast guys minimal editing just so you know

that I do not know how to speak Latin. Anyways it's a type of woodlice it's part of the

Armadilla diadilla family of woodlice, and they're a family, or they're a type of bug that rolls up into a ball.

So this protects their tender underbelly from harm.

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