What’s with all these weird names for a pill bug.
Do you mean the bean bug?
No, I mean a sow bug.
This is the first time I’ve heard anyone call them anything other than a woodlouse
I only ever called them woodlouses when I learned that name as a teenager because everyone here always called them “roly-polies” or “potato bugs.”
Roly polies does sound adorable, I’ll give you that
You must be referring to the Woodlouse Hunter which hunts… *checks notes …Granny Grunters.
It’s called a roly-poly and I will tolerate no disagreement, good day to you
I’ll accept carpet shrimp.
aww
Roly-poly is correct, but I’ll also accept potato bug.
Potato bugs are Jerusalem crickets no?
No no Jerusalem crickets are Wavypills
They roly and they poly. No better names exist.
I would’ve been with you until I saw Grumper Pig.
nuh-uh
Ye-ah
Re: your username: Is a Replicant Batty Coda just a normal Batty Coda? He’s already a cyborg with crappy/ intermittent reception.
I had to look that up lol, I’ve never seen Fern Gully. The username is a reference to Roy Batty, the character from Blade Runner.
Ahh, gotcha. It’s a good movie. Kinda sad looking back. They played it in schools in the '90s and drilled the message in that we were already doing clear cutting of forests without “The Leveler.” This was back when they “cared about global warming, and we will have to do something about it soon.” Rather than just claiming it doesn’t exist.
Robin Williams played Batty Coda, so I remember the character fondly.
I was taught they were called pill bugs. Although I knew them as also roly polys. My mother called them pill bugs, the other kids called them roly polys.
She told me it was an east coast versus west coast name and clearly is more “every group of people had decided they wanted to name this thing themselves” XD
Nice-o-pod
They’re good lil guys
Their family name is Armadillidae (arm-a-dill-a-dee) which also just sounds silly
Armadillidae
Not to be confused with Armadillidiidae.
🙃
Aww, tiny armadillos!
It’s a Roly Poly btw.
Norwegian, a loved one goes by many names…
Melkedyr: Milk bugs
Benkebitere: Bench biters
Kaffetroll: Coffee trolls
Munkebiller: Monk beetles
Kaffelus: Coffee lice
Munkelus: Monk lice
Moldokser: Mold oxen
Kaffedyr: Coffee bugs
Tusselus: Goblin lice
Paddelus: Toad lice
Potetroll: Potato trolls
Mold oxen
Because of the antennae! That’s adorable.
note to self: don’t buy coffee in Norway
It does have a hard back
Swedish: Gråsugga = gray sow.
hey Smooth Randy
It is called a pissebed in Dutch…
Yet where i live we call them verkskes ( little piggies )
Man, what the fuck did the roly polys do the the Netherlands?!
They piss in our beds! grrr
“I swear, it was these bugs!”
i think they might have pissed in some beds
https://thimsternisse.com/healing-magic/
Apparently they fed them to kids as a cure for wetting the bed.
Yeah fair, I’d have a bit of anger too if I’d been force-fed woodlice as a child.
Pissebed
Probably the cutest insect, and they do us no harm. Unshocking they have a collection of amusing names.
Apparently, they’re not actually insects, but rather crustaceans.
Crustaceans are basically ocean insects, fite me
not basically at all, they just are
That’s actually not shocking either! Nice, thanks for the info :)
Ladybugs are even cuter, but do not fare as well.
This would have made the Spanish version of A Bugs Life interesting.
… on consideration, it is the same joke.
Me in Australia: Now that’s a real Butchy boy.
Me in Australia: that’s a slater
Forbidden boba
