SC - Re:manual de mujeres

[Marcus Antaya]

You mean rollie-pollies.
At least that's what we called them when I was a kid in San Antonio (didn't
always live in the frozen north).

Raoghnailt

> Woodlice are sow bugs, "small crustaceans used in medicine".(Cassel's
> Spanish Dict.) "Any of various small terrestrial isopod crustaceans,
> chiefly of the genera Oniscus and Porcellio, commonly found under logs or
> stones and having an oval, segmented body." (American Heritage Dict.)
>
> We have them in NY/NJ.  If you touch them they curl up in a little ball, &
> you can play with them like marbles.
>
> http://www.nhm.ac.uk/woodlice/photos/oniscus_asellus.html - a picture of 1
kind
> http://www.dryad.demon.co.uk/julies/woodlice.htm - Woodlice page
> http://www.homeoint.org/allen/o/onis.htm - homeopathy page using woodlice
>
> HTH.
>
> Cindy
>
>
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