Pill bug

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Real-world info
	Name: Armadillidium vulgare; Family: Armadillidiidae - Terrestrial Crustaceans
Main appearances
	DnM DnM+ AC DnMe+ iQue; WW CF NL NH
Other appearances
	Film HHD aF PC
	Names in other languages ダンゴムシ; 鼠妇; Cloporte; Cochinilla; Porcellino di terra; Мокрица 공벌레; 鼠婦; Cloporte; Cochinilla; Kugelassel; Rolpissebed

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The pill bug is a bug in the Animal Crossing series introduced in Animal Crossing. It can be found underneath rocks and will come out if the player hits the rock with a shovel.

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, it can be caught throughout the year outside of mid to late summer, similarly to the centipede.

Catch details[edit]

In Animal Crossing[edit]

#35

"I caught a pill bug! I bet that's a bitter pill for it to swallow. (That was really awful.)"

DnM / iQue

DnM+ / AC

DnMe+

Time of year^{[nb 1]}	All year
Time of day	All day
Location	Under rocks
Weather	Any weather
Selling price	250 Bells
Furniture size

In Wild World[edit]

#50

"I caught a pill bug! Roll up if you want... you're MINE!"

Description	Pill bugs are crustaceans, like shrimp or crabs. They breathe with gills, so they can survive under water.
Time of year	All year
Time of day	All day
Peak times	Nov – Mar
Location	From hitting rocks
Bug size	10 mm
Selling price	250 Bells
Furniture size

In City Folk[edit]

#58

"I caught a pill bug! Why don't you chill, bug?"

Description	Classified as crustaceans, these can survive in water by using gills.
Time of year	All year
Time of day	All day
Peak times	Nov – Mar
Location	From hitting rocks
Bug size	2 mm
Rarity	Common
Selling price	250 Bells
Furniture size

In New Leaf[edit]

#65

"I caught a pill bug! I don't know... It seems nice to me!"

Time of year	All year
Time of day	Sep – June: All day Jul – Aug: 7 PM – 4 AM
Peak times	Nov – Mar
Location	From hitting rocks
Size	13 mm
Rarity	Very common
Selling price	200 Bells
Furniture size

In New Horizons[edit]

#76

"I caught a pill bug! That's a tough act to swallow!"

Time of year	North: Sep – Jun South: Mar – Dec
Time of day	11 PM – 4 PM
Location	From hitting rocks
Weather	Any weather
Spawn requirement	Appears from the start of the game
Selling prices	Nook's Cranny: 250 Bells Flick: 375 Bells
Furniture size

Donating to the museum[edit]

As with all insects in the Animal Crossing series, the pill bug can be donated to the museum by talking to Blathers, who will give a small speech about it.

In Animal Crossing[edit]

"Tell me, <player's name>, have you ever turned a pill bug over and examined its repellant underside? The legs...so many of them...jerking...wiggling...writhing...Blech! Abhorrent! Wretched little monsters!"

In Wild World[edit]

"I'm sure you've had this happen: your pill bug won't roll up for some reason... ...and it's only later you discover it's a wood louse! ...No? Never happen to you? Very well, I'm mad."

In City Folk[edit]

"Indeed, when they're all rolled up in a ball, pill bugs seem harmless enough... But flip them over and... OH, THOSE LEGS! Absolutely repugnant. Thinking about how they wriggle and squirm has my feathers crawling! Foulness! Hold a moment. I do rather poorly with shiny, wriggly, wretched creatures like this one."

In New Leaf[edit]

Upon donation to the museum, the pill bug can be found crawling in the first room of the Insect section. The exhibit has this to say about the pill bug:

"Pill bugs live in moist places, which is why you will commonly find them under rocks and in stumps. When they're touched, they roll into a ball. Oddly enough, they're part of the crustacean family. As such, and since they don't like dry places, they can travel for a short time underwater if need be."

In New Horizons[edit]

"Blech, the pill bug! Children delight at the way these beasts roll into balls when poked... But the appeal is utterly lost on me. One look at their leggy undersides... Hoo! Ewww! How they wriggle! Young pill bugs shed their exo-skeletons as they grow, and in doing so, sprout another pair of legs. As if 12 appendages weren't alarming enough! Yuck, I say. Yuck!"

The pill bug can be found in the leftmost display case in the laboratory section of the bug exhibit, along with the moth and centipede.

Gallery[edit]

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Animal Crossing
Animal Crossing: Wild World
Animal Crossing: City Folk
Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Real-world information[edit]

A pill bug.

Pill bugs, Armadillidium Vulgare, are from a genus of crustaceans that have been known to exist for at least 300 million years. Many members of the genus exist as marine crustaceans, but some have developed to live on the land while retaining their water-dependent lifestyle. Pill bugs can lay several hundred eggs at one time.

Their characteristic defense mechanism, which involves rolling into a protective ball, is copied in-game. The pill bug rolls into a ball when a player approaches it, making the insect much easier to catch than other ground-dwelling insects.

Names in other languages[edit]

	ダンゴムシ dango-mushi	Lit. "dango bug"

	공벌레 gongbeolle

	鼠妇 shǔfù

	鼠婦 Unknown

	Мокрица Mokritsa

	Rolpissebed

	Kugelassel	Orb Isopod

	Cochinilla

	Cloporte

	Porcellino di terra

Notes[edit]

↑ All bugs and fish in the first-generation games can appear at a lower spawn rate up to five days before the start of their first month of availability.

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