Rolly pollies
The only correct answer.
Roly Poly
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Roly Poly
holy moly a rolly poly!
Rolly poly in my guacamole!
oh man, rolly pollie in my aioli ravioli!
it’s rolly Polly, homie
Rolly Pollies
Source: https://xkcd.com/2372/
This xkcd is so good!
American from the Midwest here. We alternated between pillbug and roly poly.
I don’t see potato bug yet
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Also grew up calling them potato bugs, northeast US?
Pacific Northwest for me! Potato bugs forever!
PNW unite!
Potato bug is something else
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.
Not a bug technically, an isopod.
It’s not like “bug” is a technical term in the first place. Why not “bug”? It looks buggy to me.
It is. Insects in the order Hemiptera are “true bugs.” Pokey mouth parts for piercing and sucking and something special about the wings, I forget what.
Oh, well TIL, my bad
You can go up to “insecta” for “bugs” in general.
If you wanted to be nit picky/old school you could exclude all non-heteropterans from “true bugs.”
You’d want a giant one?
Giant isopods are found in the deep ocean, typically dwelling on the ocean floor up to 7,000 feet deep in regions like the Indo-Pacific and western Atlantic oceans.
Would they survive on sea level?
No
I assumed as much. So bro would have to have a pressurised chamber that’s also dark, so even if it was see-through, there’d really be no use.
Maintaining the tank would also be a bitch probably. Feeding, cleaning, etc. Feeding not so much but…
Anyway, doesn’t seem like the optimal solution as a pet or design choice, unless you’re like a billionaire, in which case you can do whatever the fuck you want (until we find another Luigi)
They likely go blob-isopod too.
What the fuck
My ex collects this things. Apparently there a market for raising and selling them.
We keep some little orange isos in our reptile tanks to help with keeping the tank clean. I feel weird paying for fancy “potato bugs” but they apparently help, so here I am.
Springtails and isopods are good “clean up” crews. Usually reptiles, but you can also do cool bioactive set ups for rats.
Springtails are also not bugs and are hella under appreciated. They are absolutely adorable under a microscope, but you just can’t find great pictures online.
Is that a woodlouse?
Yep
Americans call them pillbugs or something like that
I only know “roly poly” that’s the grade a American word for these lil guys.
Pill bugs here on the West Coast but in the Midwest we called them roly poly.
I work in pest control and they’re generally referred to as pill bugs in the industry.
West coast- my friends all called them pill bugs, but we called them sow bugs.
Sow bugs def a common one
Pillbugs here in the Midwest.
I found out that they’re called “bed pissers” in the Netherlands and now I only call them that
Little pissybedders
For some unknown reason, these are known as a “cheese log” in parts of the UK
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
Kellerassel
Woodlice
Growing up in Dorset, UK we always called them “Chiggy-wigs”
Hey, I’m from Dorset too. I’ve never heard Chiggy wigs before. I wonder if it’s a very regional or age thing. We called them wood lice.
Hello! I grew up on Portland, so perhaps it is very regional. I think we used the term specifically for the large black kind that roll up, the other brown/grey ones that don’t we called Wood Lice too!
Oh I don’t think I’ve seen the large black ones before. I grew up in Poole. Perhaps the black ones are less common here.
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.
Woodlouse or woodlice.
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.
