An Electron Microscope image of the head of a common pill bug.
Pill Bugs or “Roly Polies” are common insects that many children find adorable and even collectable. But those kids never looked under their head plates, or looked at them this close up. These seemingly innocuous bugs his fearsome heads with jagged teeth under their armor.
Luckily, Pill Bugs are too small to bite humans. Even the ridge of a fingerprint is too broad for them to bite. But to smaller insects and microscopic mammals such as the Bumblebee, Pill Bugs are the stuff of nightmares. Their teeth are capable of biting through any exoskeleton or bone, and their series of over 50 stomachs is able to digest any substance fully, even solid uranium, which they consider a delicacy.
