What’s with all these weird names for a pill bug.
feral naming
Submitted 5 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/b8cd20ba-d972-48ef-9a7f-b6b1ea9e3936.png
Comments
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one 5 months ago
It’s called a roly-poly and I will tolerate no disagreement, good day to you
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They roly and they poly. No better names exist.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 months 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 5 months ago
Roly-poly is correct, but I’ll also accept potato bug.
smeg@feddit.uk 5 months ago
This is the first time I’ve heard anyone call them anything other than a woodlouse
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
You must be referring to the Woodlouse Hunter which hunts… *checks notes …Granny Grunters.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months 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 5 months ago
Do you mean the bean bug?
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
No, I mean a sow bug.
protist@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Their family name is Armadillidae (arm-a-dill-a-dee) which also just sounds silly
Metostopholes@midwest.social 5 months ago
Aww, tiny armadillos!
Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Armadillidae
Not to be confused with Armadillidiidae.
🙃
TheEEEdiot@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
It’s a Roly Poly btw.
Heavybell@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Probably the cutest insect, and they do us no harm. Unshocking they have a collection of amusing names.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Apparently, they’re not actually insects, but rather crustaceans.
ThoGot@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Crustaceans are basically ocean insects, fite me
Heavybell@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s actually not shocking either! Nice, thanks for the info :)
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Ladybugs are even cuter, but do not fare as well.
Syd@lemm.ee 5 months ago
This would have made the Spanish version of A Bugs Life interesting.
OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.net 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months ago
Welp, that explains why the Netherlands calls these bugs “bedpissers”
Glimpythegoblin@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Yeah they smell like stinky wood/almonds to me.
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
stinky wood/almonds
Isn’t almonds also the scent reported by those genetically-equipped to smell cyanide?
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Not me! Do you smell ants? I think it’s a genetic trait.
WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months ago
Doesn’t ring a bell. Earwigs have a distinct smell, though.
Fjern@lemmy.world 5 months 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 5 months ago
note to self: don’t buy coffee in Norway
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Mold oxen
Because of the antennae! That’s adorable.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 months ago
DOODLE BUGS!
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months ago
Nice-o-pod
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
They’re good lil guys
Nakoichi@hexbear.net 5 months ago
ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one 5 months 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 5 months ago
Me in Australia: Now that’s a real Butchy boy.
psud@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Me in Australia: that’s a slater
TastyWheat@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Forbidden boba
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months ago
It is called a pissebed in Dutch…
Yet where i live we call them verkskes ( little piggies )
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
hey Smooth Randy
DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It does have a hard back
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 5 months ago
I was 30+ before I knew not everyone called them slaters
DampCanary@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They’re proper pokemons, they have shiny version | V
EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world 5 months 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 5 months ago
Swedish: Gråsugga = gray sow.
Corno@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Image
voracitude@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Man, what the fuck did the roly polys do the the Netherlands?!
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
They piss in our beds! grrr
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 5 months ago
thimsternisse.com/healing-magic/
Apparently they fed them to kids as a cure for wetting the bed.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
i think they might have pissed in some beds
brb@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Pissebed