It's once again time for my periodic warning. Learn from my mistakes. There's an animal in everyone's yard variously named potato bug, sow bug, wood louse, pill bug, roly-poly, etc. The scientific term is "isopod". They crawl around harmlessly, eating leaf litter. Sometimes people might find one inside a tomato or squash, but it's not the isopod's fault - a snail or grasshopper chewed the hole in the vegetable; the isopod just took advantage of the shelter. I.e., they're not pests. One day I decided to eat a pill bug. I discovered that they store their ammonia waste inside their body, so if you chew one up, it tastes exactly like stale pee smells. For reasons I'd rather not go into, I didn't give up trying. I realize that they are small and round and curled up, so I could presumably easily swallow one whole. Please note that I was a grown-ass man when I did this, not a kid. I popped the balled-up isopod into my mouth and swallowed it. All went well for several seconds. Then, halfway down my esophagus the pill bug unrolled. It chose NOT to go down to my stomach, and determined to crawl back up my throat. So its slick, streamlined body, combined with many sets of legs designed to push them through leaf mold, meant the pill bug's effort were vastly superior to my puny peristalsis. Lucky me got to feel the pill bug crawl all. The. Way. Back. Up. Every. Inch. When it entered my mouth, I spat it out and it crawled off into the grass. I didn't seek vengeance, because it had beat me fair and square. So if you never learn ANYTHING else from me, don't eat pill bugs. That is your lesson for today. In other news, it's worse to eat a pill bug than a stink bug. This does not mean it's "good" to eat a stink bug. I would rather not share how I came to have this esoteric knowledge.