We called them slaters.
Autocorrect turned that into skaters and I got a hilarious image in my head.
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MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 7 months ago
We always just called them Roly-Polys! They provided hours of entertainment for kids in the days before everyone had the Internet lol
HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 7 months ago
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!
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 months ago
Same!
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Did we just become sow-buds?
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s a new one to me lol
MetaCubed@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Are you from Canada by any chance? Ive only heard other Canadians use Roly-Poly for these little guys.
bss03@infosec.pub 7 months ago
Arkansas here; used Rolly-Polly as childhood name for isopods.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nope, I’m from South Carolina in the US! That’s what everyone around here calls them!
remotedev@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
That’s what we called them in southern California
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 7 months ago
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tonylowe@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
I see you’ve played earwig-roly before.
StellarExtract@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Whatever you say, entomologist Crocodile Dundee
carzian@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Do NOT put these in your ears.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
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.
carzian@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 7 months ago
You had some trouble with the post button?
carzian@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Yeah, my Lemmy client timed out twice trying to upload the photo. Then failed again when I trued 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)
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
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.
Crewman@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Pill bugs and potato bugs are some others I’ve heard.
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 7 months ago
In Nor Cal where I grew up, potato bugs are a totally different bug that looks like a cockroach fucked a grasshopper.
Crewman@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Image Oh. No, thank you.
9point6@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Woodlouse in the UK
RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 7 months ago
At least the south east.
9point6@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Everything starts getting a little bit odd in that part of the country
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
It’s all about the taste.
prex@aussie.zone 7 months ago
100%
Western Australia: Slater
I can only assume the other states are similar.