Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Geobacillus / Getty Images With some simple steps, you can keep pill bugs out of the house—and get rid of them if they do appear.

Flip a damp log in your backyard, and a crowd of tiny gray roly-polies usually rushes for cover. These pill bugs may look like insects, but they are actually crustaceans, distant relatives of crabs ...

Most people first notice pill bugs while lifting a flowerpot or turning over a log, then watching small gray roly polies curl into tight balls. Because they share space with ants and beetles, many ...