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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
60 0 ReplyI 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.
19 0 ReplyPill bugs and potato bugs are some others I've heard.
27 0 ReplyIn 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.
13 0 ReplyOh. No, thank you.
19 0 ReplyWe have a similar bug here called a cave cricket! They look similar but cave crickets are harmless lol
4 0 ReplyNot 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.
2 0 ReplyThe 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
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They look like a pale version of our Weta.
But our bugs are chill. Little jumpy and spiky though.
4 0 ReplyYeah, 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.
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Woodlouse in the UK
3 0 ReplyAt least the south east.
(Edit) I say this but reading and Guildford call them cheesy bobs and cheese logs.
What the fuck.
3 0 ReplyEverything starts getting a little bit odd in that part of the country
2 0 ReplyIt’s all about the taste.
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100%
Western Australia: Slater
I can only assume the other states are similar.
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We called them slaters.
Autocorrect turned that into skaters and I got a hilarious image in my head.
8 0 ReplyI grew up calling them sow bugs, and I've learned this was weird because I've never met anyone else who called them that!
5 0 ReplySame!
4 0 ReplyDid we just become sow-buds?
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That's a new one to me lol
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Are you from Canada by any chance? Ive only heard other Canadians use Roly-Poly for these little guys.
2 0 ReplyNope, I'm from South Carolina in the US! That's what everyone around here calls them!
1 0 ReplyThat's what we called them in southern California
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Arkansas here; used Rolly-Polly as childhood name for isopods.
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