today’s isopod is Armadillidium vulgare “Orange Vigor,” an orange mutation of the common pillbug or roly-poly.
they still show yellow scrawls and varying shades of base color like the wild gray form, with males tending to be dark and patternless and females brighter and with more markings.
[ID: color illustration of a pillbug and a millipede sharing a brown leaf on the forest floor beside a log. The pill bug is blushing and there are little black hearts between the couple. Background is green grass. End ID]