I had no idea what you were talking about until I got to pill bug.
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swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Woodlice are my favourite for this. From the wiki:
Common names include:
- armadillo bug
- boat-builder (Newfoundland, Canada)
- butcher boy or butchy boy (Australia, mostly around Melbourne)
- carpenter or cafner (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
- cheeselog (Reading, England)
- cheesy bobs (Guildford, England)
- cheesy bug (North West Kent, Gravesend, England)
- chiggy pig (Devon, England)
- chisel pig
- chucky pig (Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, England)
- doodlebug (also used for the larva of an antlion and for the cockchafer)
- fat pig (Ireland)
- gramersow (Cornwall, England)
- hog-louse
- millipedus
- QuaQua regional to Beddau and Keppoch Street Roath
- mochyn coed (‘tree pig’), pryf lludw (‘ash bug’), granny grey in Wales
- pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium)
- potato bug
- roll up bug
- roly-poly
- slater (Scotland, Ulster, New Zealand and Australia)
- sow bug
- woodbunter
- wood bug (British Columbia, Canada)
Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one 3 days ago
swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Stevie/Stevies (as in the name, Steve) is the house-level localised name here. Stevie Slater.
Why, I don’t know.
I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 17 hours ago
DRG?
myrrh@ttrpg.network 3 days ago
Chump@hexbear.net 2 days ago
rolly-poley gang rise up
watson387@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Potato bug ftw
davidgro@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I seriously thought my parents made that up and nobody else called them that. I still don’t know if they have any particular affinity for potatoes or something.
bubbalu@hexbear.net 3 days ago
I had not clue what this was till I got to rollypolly lol
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Roly poly or pill bugs!