Isopods may be friends but all arthropods can stay the fuck away from me.
isopods are friends
Submitted 4 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
I should clarify that I meant living arthropods.
Some of those fuckers are delicious 😋
myrrh@ttrpg.network 4 weeks ago
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 weeks ago
One of the few bugs I do not find icky and will willingly touch.
essteeyou@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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.
janabuggs@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
I am aggressively pro isopod. Thanks for the content!
NewLeaf@hexbear.net 4 weeks 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.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
Just saw one of these friends today
Zerush@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
pseudo@jlai.lu 4 weeks ago
I just came for that. Thanks faster friend !
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
You wut
pH3ra@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
No one told me life was gonna be this way
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
clap clap clap clap
Poogona@hexbear.net 4 weeks ago
love me some land crustaceans
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Land lobsters ftw!
Talaraine@fedia.io 4 weeks ago
One of my very first wild friends in fact! Loved playing with them as a kid =)
CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
What was the original?
azi@mander.xyz 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.
Syn_Attck@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Roly-poly/pillbug vs isopod
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks 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)
shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
I have so many frenz
fossilesque@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
pseudo@jlai.lu 4 weeks ago
Oh (*_*) Subscribed thks !
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
We always just called them Roly-Polys! They provided hours of entertainment for kids in the days before everyone had the Internet lol
MetaCubed@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Are you from Canada by any chance? Ive only heard other Canadians use Roly-Poly for these little guys.
bss03@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
Arkansas here; used Rolly-Polly as childhood name for isopods.
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Nope, I’m from South Carolina in the US! That’s what everyone around here calls them!
HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
We called them slaters.
Autocorrect turned that into skaters and I got a hilarious image in my head.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks 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.
prex@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
100%
Western Australia: Slater
I can only assume the other states are similar.
Crewman@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Pill bugs and potato bugs are some others I’ve heard.
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 4 weeks 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!
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That’s a new one to me lol
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
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TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Do they do something that inconveniences people to not consider them friendly?
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
It’s somewhat saddening that them dying is still an inconvenience to us.