These guys are not my friends. They chew through the bottom of my tomato plant stems. Just the bottom, never the rest. Just enough to kill my plants, and then off they go to fuck up something else.
Now I catch them and feed them to my chickens.
isopods are friends
Submitted 8 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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essteeyou@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Zerush@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
pseudo@jlai.lu 8 months ago
I just came for that. Thanks faster friend !
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
You wut
pH3ra@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
No one told me life was gonna be this way
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
clap clap clap clap
NewLeaf@hexbear.net 8 months ago
They give live birth. I witnessed it one time.
When I was a kid, my friend and I used to collect all the bugs in the yard and make landscapes for them in the sandbox.
CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee 8 months ago
What was the original?
Syn_Attck@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Roly-poly/pillbug vs isopod
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
I wasn’t able to find an original, but I would assume it was either talking about the fact that they’re crustations and not bugs, or talking about the different regional names for them (roly poly, pill bug, potato bug, etc)
azi@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Pill millipedes (looks like Glomeris marginata) vs isopods (some Armadillidium species as it can roll up into a ball). Incredible case of convergent evolution
CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee 8 months ago
holy cow, I was today years old when I found out they weren’t the same family.
i thought both pictures, top/bottom, were an interesting factoid where they are crustaceans… you mean to tell me the top one is a millipede?! my life is a lie.
shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 8 months ago
I have so many frenz
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Do they do something that inconveniences people to not consider them friendly?
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
A couple months ago I had an absolute infestation of these after a rainy week, literally probably cleaned up over a hundred of their carcasses from inside my home.
tweeks@feddit.nl 8 months ago
It’s somewhat saddening that them dying is still an inconvenience to us.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 8 months ago
One of the few bugs I do not find icky and will willingly touch.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Land lobsters ftw!
Talaraine@fedia.io 8 months ago
One of my very first wild friends in fact! Loved playing with them as a kid =)
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Isopods may be friends but all arthropods can stay the fuck away from me.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I want some of them to stay very close to me. Like lobsters and shrimp can be close enough to be in ma belly.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I should clarify that I meant living arthropods.
Some of those fuckers are delicious 😋
myrrh@ttrpg.network 8 months ago
fossilesque@mander.xyz 8 months ago
pseudo@jlai.lu 8 months ago
Oh (*_*) Subscribed thks !
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Just saw one of these friends today
Poogona@hexbear.net 8 months ago
love me some land crustaceans
janabuggs@beehaw.org 8 months ago
I am aggressively pro isopod. Thanks for the content!
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 8 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
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.
Crewman@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
Pill bugs and potato bugs are some others I’ve heard.
9point6@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Woodlouse in the UK
prex@aussie.zone 8 months ago
100%
Western Australia: Slater
I can only assume the other states are similar.
HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We called them slaters.
Autocorrect turned that into skaters and I got a hilarious image in my head.
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!
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 months ago
Same!
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s a new one to me lol
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.
bss03@infosec.pub 8 months ago
Arkansas here; used Rolly-Polly as childhood name for isopods.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nope, I’m from South Carolina in the US! That’s what everyone around here calls them!
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 8 months ago
carzian@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
That’s not an earwig, this is an earwig
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carzian@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
That’s not an earwig, this is an earwig
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carzian@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
That’s not an earwig, this is an earwig
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