Comment on isopods are friends

MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Crewman@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Pill bugs and potato bugs are some others I’ve heard.

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    • NielsBohron@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In Nor Cal where I grew up, potato bugs are a totally different bug that looks like a cockroach fucked a grasshopper.

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      • Crewman@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Image Oh. No, thank you.

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Woodlouse in the UK

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    • RecallMadness@lemmy.nz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      At least the south east.

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      • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Everything starts getting a little bit odd in that part of the country

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      • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s all about the taste.

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  • prex@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    100%

    Western Australia: Slater

    I can only assume the other states are similar.

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• HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We called them slaters.

  Autocorrect turned that into skaters and I got a hilarious image in my head.

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• Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨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!

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  • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same!

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    • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Did we just become sow-buds?

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  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s a new one to me lol

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• MetaCubed@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are you from Canada by any chance? Ive only heard other Canadians use Roly-Poly for these little guys.

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  • bss03@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Arkansas here; used Rolly-Polly as childhood name for isopods.

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  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nope, I’m from South Carolina in the US! That’s what everyone around here calls them!

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    • remotedev@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s what we called them in southern California

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• JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • carzian@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not an earwig, this is an earwig

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    • tonylowe@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I see you’ve played earwig-roly before.

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    • StellarExtract@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Whatever you say, entomologist Crocodile Dundee

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  • carzian@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not an earwig, this is an earwig

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    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do NOT put these in your ears.

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    • Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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  • carzian@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not an earwig, this is an earwig

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    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You had some trouble with the post button?

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      • carzian@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨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)

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