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Like many tailwaters, spring creeks hold bug-sized crustaceans like scuds and sow bugs, essentially freshwater shrimp that are easily imitated with simple patterns on a natural drift.
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Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
These include ants, fleas, crickets, spiders, earwigs, millipedes, silverfish, mites, palmetto bugs, and sow bugs.
—Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2023
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Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 13 July 2023
These include ants, fleas, crickets, spiders, earwigs, millipedes, silverfish, mites, palmetto bugs, and sow bugs.
—Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2023
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“Sow bug.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sow%20bug. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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sow bug
noun
: wood louse
especially
: a wood louse capable of curling itself into a ball
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