Funny little guys in a jar
In January, I discovered I had a bunch of isopods (aka pillbugs, rolypolies, woodlice, carpenters, etc) living in a Rubbermaid tub of soil that I was over-wintering. The soil had come from my little balcony garden, where some of my plants didn't survive the colder months. I was quite surprised to see them in there since I didn't expect these tiny moisture loving bugs to make the journey up to my second story balcony. I wasn't entirely sure what to do with them. After some thinking I opted to dispose of the soil and use the tub for storage, but I wanted to see if I could save some of the isopods and keep them in a small terrarium. I started with a large squared glass jar from Michael's, a couple scoops of soil from the tub, plenty of isopods, and a couple spider plant babies from my garden plants. Many people are now keeping different isopod species as pets and I thought it looked neat enough to try myself. I added in some leaf litter from my balcony ...