Woodlice are perfectly harmless ... or even the invasion by other species such as mites or fungi,’ says Tony King, pest control expert and owner and manager of The Pied Piper.

Of the order Isopoda and related to lobsters and crabs, woodlice have been around virtually forever. Ancestral trilobite fossils date from the Eocene period 50 million years ago, but the existence of ...

Giant isopods look like monstrously sized woodlice and can live in the deep sea ... waiting for food to fall from higher in the water column The largest isopods are the species Bathynomus giganteus.