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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Everything starts getting a little bit odd in that part of the country
It’s all about the taste.
100%
Western Australia: Slater
I can only assume the other states are similar.
Are you from Canada by any chance? Ive only heard other Canadians use Roly-Poly for these little guys.
Arkansas here; used Rolly-Polly as childhood name for isopods.
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!
Same!
Did we just become sow-buds?