Jelly bean isopods, rubber ducky isopods, and other pill bugs people keep as pets

I watched this video on The Kid Should See This; it's a time-lapse of "jelly bean" isopods eating chunks of sweet potato. I've not heard of jelly bean isopods before, so I looked it up and learned that it's a rare color variety of pill bug that came from a single colony on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia and comes in a variety of colors: orange, gold, red, yellow, black, striped, and speckled. — Read the rest The post Jelly bean isopods, rubber ducky isopods, and other pill bugs people keep as pets appeared first on Boing Boing.

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