The woodlouse as a "detritovore"

As an old English major, I've enjoyed accumulating a vocabulary of words ending in "vore." Most people know carnivore, herbivore, and omnivore; my hobbies and side interests introduced me to granivore, piscivore, insectivore, and frugivore (plus tangentially-related "locavore") (and hypercarnivore ). Yesterday was my first encounter with "detritovore", which I encountered in The Guardian , where…