Crazy seeing this article, as I was just doing some cursory internet research on these “bugs.” They’ve been showing up in my house - dead.
Turns out that they are crustaceans, and have internal gills that dry up when air moisture goes away. I had finally started using the AC, and sure enough, it dried out the air just enough.
Most every kid plays with roly-poly bugs at some time in their life................
My mom directed a home health agency. And the nurses kept complaining that a bedridden patient was infected with Roly poly’s. They were finding them in every opening.
Eventually they hospitalized the woman and the doctors were laughing at the nurses stories. They stopped laughing when little roly polys were found crawing up the IV tubes.
They cut open the woman’s mattress at her house and it was full of roly polys.
They eventually got them out of the woman’s system.
/Gross but true story mode off