Me, pill bug
Jukihisa Tokuda, Kjoši Takahaši 

Hey! Hello. Do you know what I am? A ball? No, no, that's wrong.

I am a pill bug. My real size is this small, look.

We pill bugs are more comfortable living in town than in thickets or forests. Why, you ask? You'll understand once you take a closer look at our lives.

We prefer to go out looking for food at night. We eat dry plants and dead insects. And also leftover food thrown away by people. Even pet food, newspapers, or cardboard! Because we eat all sorts of things, some people call us 'nature's cleaners'.

Our appetite is amazing. We can munch through even a big leaf like this, every last bit. And right after eating — we need to go to the bathroom. But our droppings are very tiny.

We moult many times and grow little by little. Moulting is like wriggling out of clothes that have become too tight. Our way of moulting is a little unusual though. First, on day one, we shed the skin from the back half of our body.

On the next day, we shed the front half. And we always eat the shed skin. Because it's full of nutrients.

We lived energetically while it was warm, but cold winter is too much for us. So when late autumn arrives, we burrow down into the ground and all sleep together, until the warm spring comes.