What’s with all these weird names for a pill bug.
feral naming
Submitted 1 month ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one 1 month ago
It’s called a roly-poly and I will tolerate no disagreement, good day to you
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They roly and they poly. No better names exist.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Re: your username: Is a Replicant Batty Coda just a normal Batty Coda? He’s already a cyborg with crappy/ intermittent reception.
yozul@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Roly-poly is correct, but I’ll also accept potato bug.
smeg@feddit.uk 1 month ago
This is the first time I’ve heard anyone call them anything other than a woodlouse
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
You must be referring to the Woodlouse Hunter which hunts… *checks notes …Granny Grunters.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 month ago
I only ever called them woodlouses when I learned that name as a teenager because everyone here always called them “roly-polies.”
someacnt_@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Do you mean the bean bug?
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
No, I mean a sow bug.
protist@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Their family name is Armadillidae (arm-a-dill-a-dee) which also just sounds silly
Metostopholes@midwest.social 1 month ago
Aww, tiny armadillos!
Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Armadillidae
Not to be confused with Armadillidiidae.
🙃
TheEEEdiot@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It’s a Roly Poly btw.
Heavybell@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Probably the cutest insect, and they do us no harm. Unshocking they have a collection of amusing names.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Apparently, they’re not actually insects, but rather crustaceans.
ThoGot@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Crustaceans are basically ocean insects, fite me
Heavybell@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s actually not shocking either! Nice, thanks for the info :)
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Ladybugs are even cuter, but do not fare as well.
Syd@lemm.ee 1 month ago
This would have made the Spanish version of A Bugs Life interesting.
OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
It’s because they roll up into a cute little ball and it tickles us in a way nothing else does
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
This is a weird question but everyone else could smell these, right? Like a weird bitter, musty smell. That post about people smelling ants a while back made me wonder what other bugs not all people smell.
Corno@lemm.ee 1 month ago
They excrete ammonia through their exoskeleton because they don’t actually pee! I’ve only noticed a smell from them when they’re in large groups. They may be a bit smelly, and a lot of people mislabel them as insects, but they’re actually terrestrial isopods and are related to crabs and shrimps!
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Welp, that explains why the Netherlands calls these bugs “bedpissers”
Glimpythegoblin@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Yeah they smell like stinky wood/almonds to me.
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
stinky wood/almonds
Isn’t almonds also the scent reported by those genetically-equipped to smell cyanide?
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Not me! Do you smell ants? I think it’s a genetic trait.
WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Certain ants are pretty distinct. Thatch ants spray formic acid as a defense, and will have a sour smell (and taste, or so I’ve been told). Odoriferous house ants are named so for obvious reason, and smell (to me) like pen ink. Assuming they taste terrible, but I dunno anyone who’s tasted one.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I’ve never noticed an ant smell, if I had to guess I’d assume it’s some different chemical I’m picking up on from the pill bugs.
cholesterol@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Doesn’t ring a bell. Earwigs have a distinct smell, though.
Fjern@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Norwegian, a loved one goes by many names…
Melkedyr: Milk bugs Benkebitere: Bench biters Kaffetroll: Coffee trolls Munkebiller: Monk beetles Kaffelus: Coffee lice Munkelus: Monk lice Moldokser: Mold oxen Kaffedyr: Coffee bugs Tusselus: Goblin lice Paddelus: Toad lice Potetroll: Potato trolls
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
note to self: don’t buy coffee in Norway
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Mold oxen
Because of the antennae! That’s adorable.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 month ago
DOODLE BUGS!
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m my head a doodle bug is more like a beetle with long segmented legs that kind of bobs around as it doodles along.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, we all have our own tags for critters. Went looking online for doodle bugs and most all of the links pointed to ant lions. We called those sand diggers when I was a kid.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nice-o-pod
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
They’re good lil guys
Nakoichi@hexbear.net 1 month ago
ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one 1 month ago
We had those where I grew up to, our chickens would go absolutely bonkers when we would feed them one. One of them actually learned to come to me when I called because she knew it meant delicious bugs
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Me in Australia: Now that’s a real Butchy boy.
psud@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Me in Australia: that’s a slater
TastyWheat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Forbidden boba
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I was taught they were called pill bugs. Although I knew them as also roly polys. My mother called them pill bugs, the other kids called them roly polys.
She told me it was an east coast versus west coast name and clearly is more “every group of people had decided they wanted to name this thing themselves” XD
TheWolfOfSouthEnd@lemmygrad.ml 1 month ago
My MIL calls them Brick Beetles…cause every time you lift a brick up there one under it. Partner was 30 before she found out that’s not their real name.
ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I mean I have a pair of aquatic sowbugs I’ve been keeping in an empty yogurt cup. They look like regular sowbugs but they’re underwater, hence aquatic sowbug.
Nounka@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It is called a pissebed in Dutch…
Yet where i live we call them verkskes ( little piggies )
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
hey Smooth Randy
DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It does have a hard back
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I was 30+ before I knew not everyone called them slaters
DampCanary@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They’re proper pokemons, they have shiny version | V
EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I call them isopods but that’s only because I started keeping them as pets Rn I have some dairy cow isopods
sawne128@hexbear.net 1 month ago
Swedish: Gråsugga = gray sow.
Corno@lemm.ee 1 month ago
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voracitude@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Man, what the fuck did the roly polys do the the Netherlands?!
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
They piss in our beds! grrr
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 1 month ago
thimsternisse.com/healing-magic/
Apparently they fed them to kids as a cure for wetting the bed.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
i think they might have pissed in some beds
brb@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Pissebed