Weirdly Dual Coloured Wood Louse

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Came across this weirdly coloured wood louse this morning , Its larger than our normal ones in the UK, is it a foreign infiltrator or a mutant as cannot find it on the web?

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I just googled " two colored wood louse" and this picture came up.
The following captioned the photo:

Purple wood-louse. The purple color is not the naturel color of this wood louse, but because of a virus the wood louse will became purple and will die afterwards.​


Do you think that your wood lose may have caught the virus and slowly be turning colors because of it? Just my guess, I don't really know.
 
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Good Morning Annie, have found out that it is a two tone pill woodlouse... nature is amazing you learn everyday :cool:
 

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