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 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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essteeyou@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
pseudo@jlai.lu 1 year ago
I just came for that. Thanks faster friend !
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You wut
pH3ra@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
No one told me life was gonna be this way
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
clap clap clap clap
NewLeaf@hexbear.net 1 year 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 1 year ago
What was the original?
Syn_Attck@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Roly-poly/pillbug vs isopod
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
I have so many frenz
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do they do something that inconveniences people to not consider them friendly?
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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 1 year ago
It’s somewhat saddening that them dying is still an inconvenience to us.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
One of the few bugs I do not find icky and will willingly touch.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Land lobsters ftw!
Talaraine@fedia.io 1 year ago
One of my very first wild friends in fact! Loved playing with them as a kid =)
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Isopods may be friends but all arthropods can stay the fuck away from me.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 year 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 1 year ago
I should clarify that I meant living arthropods.
Some of those fuckers are delicious 😋
myrrh@ttrpg.network 1 year ago
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 year ago
pseudo@jlai.lu 1 year ago
Oh (*_*) Subscribed thks !
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Just saw one of these friends today
Poogona@hexbear.net 1 year ago
love me some land crustaceans
janabuggs@beehaw.org 1 year ago
I am aggressively pro isopod. Thanks for the content!
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Pill bugs and potato bugs are some others I’ve heard.
9point6@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Woodlouse in the UK
prex@aussie.zone 1 year ago
100%
Western Australia: Slater
I can only assume the other states are similar.
HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 1 year ago
We called them slaters.
Autocorrect turned that into skaters and I got a hilarious image in my head.
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 1 year 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 1 year ago
Same!
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s a new one to me lol
MetaCubed@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Are you from Canada by any chance? Ive only heard other Canadians use Roly-Poly for these little guys.
bss03@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Arkansas here; used Rolly-Polly as childhood name for isopods.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nope, I’m from South Carolina in the US! That’s what everyone around here calls them!
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 year ago
carzian@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
That’s not an earwig, this is an earwig
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carzian@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
That’s not an earwig, this is an earwig
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carzian@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
That’s not an earwig, this is an earwig
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