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We always just called them Roly-Polys! They provided hours of entertainment for kids in the days before everyone had the Internet lol
We called them slaters.
Autocorrect turned that into skaters and I got a hilarious image in my head.
Are you from Canada by any chance? Ive only heard other Canadians use Roly-Poly for these little guys.
Nope, I’m from South Carolina in the US! That’s what everyone around here calls them!
That’s what we called them in southern California
I grew up calling them sow bugs, and I’ve learned this was weird because I’ve never met anyone else who called them that!
That’s a new one to me lol
Same!
Did we just become sow-buds?
I read somewhere a while back that the nicknames for these creatures is highly regional, and it seemed to pan out when their data showed that the regions which used the two names I know them by are the same ones that my family comes from.
Doodle-bug or roly-poly, btw.
Woodlouse in the UK
At least the south east.
(Edit) I say this but reading and Guildford call them cheesy bobs and cheese logs.
What the fuck.
It’s all about the taste.
Everything starts getting a little bit odd in that part of the country
100%
Western Australia: Slater
I can only assume the other states are similar.
Pill bugs and potato bugs are some others I’ve heard.
In Nor Cal where I grew up, potato bugs are a totally different bug that looks like a cockroach fucked a grasshopper.
edit: Apparently their real name is a “Jerusalem cricket” and they will bite the shit out of you if you let them.
Oh. No, thank you.
Yeah, I have a deep-seated irrational fear of bugs large enough to “pop” when you step on them, and I think it stems from growing up around these monstrosities. They’re not as bad as bugs in a lot of places, but goddamn does it hurt to get bit by them, especially as a child.
We have a similar bug here called a cave cricket! They look similar but cave crickets are harmless lol
Not venomous or anything, but if it’s the same cave cricket or “spider cricket” we have here then they will also bite the shit out of you.
The ones we have here can’t bite anything. If they get scared their only defense mechanism is to jump straight at the threat and hope to scare it away lol
They look like a pale version of our Weta.
But our bugs are chill. Little jumpy and spiky though.
What was the original?
Pill millipedes (looks like Glomeris marginata) vs isopods (some Armadillidium species as it can roll up into a ball). Incredible case of convergent evolution
I wasn’t able to find an original, but I would assume it was either talking about the fact that they’re crustations and not bugs, or talking about the different regional names for them (roly poly, pill bug, potato bug, etc)
Roly-poly/pillbug vs isopod?
I thought they were the same thing, but pill bugs always look bland while isopods have fancy breeds
One of my very first wild friends in fact! Loved playing with them as a kid =)
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Land lobsters ftw!
No one told me life was gonna be this way
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love me some land crustaceans
They are also friendly mascots
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These guys are not my friends. They chew through the bottom of my tomato plant stems. Just the bottom, never the rest. Just enough to kill my plants, and then off they go to fuck up something else.
Now I catch them and feed them to my chickens.
One of the few bugs I do not find icky and will willingly touch.
I am aggressively pro isopod. Thanks for the content!
They give live birth. I witnessed it one time.
When I was a kid, my friend and I used to collect all the bugs in the yard and make landscapes for them in the sandbox.
Just saw one of these friends today
Isopods may be friends but all arthropods can stay the fuck away from me.
I want some of them to stay very close to me. Like lobsters and shrimp can be close enough to be in ma belly.
I should clarify that I meant living arthropods.
Some of those fuckers are delicious 😋
…even powerhug?..