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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
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.
They look like a pale version of our Weta.
But our bugs are chill. Little jumpy and spiky though.
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
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.
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.
We called them slaters.
Autocorrect turned that into skaters and I got a hilarious image in my head.
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?
That's a new one to me lol
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
That's not an earwig, this is an earwig
I see you’ve played earwig-roly before.
Whatever you say, entomologist Crocodile Dundee
That's not an earwig, this is an earwig
Do NOT put these in your ears.
Also a nice usefull guy, with a lot of bad Myths out there, because of his (useless) tweezers, which only cause interests on the females of this species.
That's not an earwig, this is an earwig
You had some trouble with the post button?
Yeah, my Lemmy client timed out twice trying to upload the photo. Then failed again when I tried using a link. Each time I refreshed it and didn't see a comment, so I figured might as well try again. I noticed the multiple comments but it looks like my client just silently fails when deleting them. I figured it was funny so I didn't try too hard to delete them (ツ)
I had a similar thing one time. But my comment wasn't as cute as your repeating earwig, so I think you win out.