Roly Poly

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Rolly pollies

Rolly Pollies

I don't see potato bug yet

Is that a woodlouse?

Source: https://xkcd.com/2372/

American from the Midwest here. We alternated between pillbug and roly poly.

Snacks!

Not a bug technically, an isopod.

People pay stupid money for rubber duckies:

If I had cash, I’d want a giant one:

I always called them Rollie pollies. My brother in laws earliest memory of me is me explaining how good they were to eat.

So I never really though about this before this post, but the Dutch name is actually really fucking weird. They're called "pissebedden" here, which is a combination of "pissen" (to pee) and "bedden" (beds). I read that apparently there was a superstition that they would help against bed wetting of you put them in your bed before sleep. I guess that'd help because it'd be hard to sleep with those buggers crawling around in your bed. What's also weird is that the name isn't literally "bed wetters" because then the words should be reversed like "bedpissers" or something. So it's more like "pissybeds" in English.

Idk what tf they were smoking tbh, but it's the normal word for them and is even used on Wikipedia. Li they're talking about the zoetwaterpissebedden (fresh water pissybed) as if this is a reasonable scientific name.

My three year old calls them “ah-peel”

Edit: I just showed him this post and he said “That my best friend owl-putty.” Progress.

use to call these

use

Well, my voice, if I ever tried. I think a whistle would just be pointless. Do they even have ears? Can you call something without ears, no matter what you use? #l2s

Woodlice

Slater.

Rolly-polly as a kid.

Wood louse as an adult.

Horror story! Little me heard that they breathe through gills and thinking they would be OK, I filled a soap bubble bottle with water and stuffed 'em in there. When I checked the next day they had disintegrated, nothing by tiny pieces left. I was horrified.

If we had gagaball when I was a kid, I wouldn't have spent every recess playing with rollypollies.

Growing up in Dorset, UK we always called them "Chiggy-wigs"

Slater

Is that cavetown as in the singer?

We're in the deep cuts here but I love this cover/remix of one of their songs by Mounika, enjoy.

Doodlebugs

Pill bug mostly. I think I heard potato bug once or twice. PNW USA.

Sow bugs, but some kids called them rolly-polleys. I taught my daughter both (as well as wood louse), but as you can imagine, she went with the fun one.

Kellerassel

Bicho bola in spanish

Words.

But as for their names, why, they're cheesybobs. And they're definitely friends.

This was asked many years ago on Reddit and after that I concluded that only British Columbians call these Wood Bugs.

Never heard of a Roly Poly or Pill bug before i saw that post.

Haven't seen anybody say armadillo bug yet.

콩벌레, translates to bean bug

We didn't have a single term around here.

Most common was punkin bug, or pumpkin bug for you damn yankees.

But, roly-poly, tomato bug, and pill bug were all in common usage.

What's interesting to me is that they were also called doodle bugs, despite a completely different bug also being called that. Doodle bug is also used for ant lions around here; indeed, that's what they're called almost exclusively.

They were both called that for the same reason, the little doodly tracks they leave in fine sand and soil, though if a punkin bug is on that, they're going elsewhere because they don't really like those conditions.

PNW - I learned them as both rollie pollies and pill-bugs, when I was growing up.

But also friends.

They are so cute!

Tomato bugs.

Doodle bugs

Kaffedyr (coffee animals)

Some people in the uk call them cheeselogs

Potato bugs.

There's a black variant? Ours are greyish.

Your all wrong, they are chuckipigs

I called them the cute roaches

His Divine shadow.

Edit: spelling

Boodgie boys

Woodlouse or woodlice.