Top tier bug friends
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I only know "roly poly" that's the grade a American word for these lil guys.
Pill bugs here on the West Coast but in the Midwest we called them roly poly.
I work in pest control and they're generally referred to as pill bugs in the industry.
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I only know "roly poly" that's the grade a American word for these lil guys.
I found out that they're called "bed pissers" in the Netherlands and now I only call them that
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Not a bug technically, an isopod.
People pay stupid money for rubber duckies:
If I had cash, I’d want a giant one:
I always called them Rollie pollies. My brother in laws earliest memory of me is me explaining how good they were to eat.
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He’s a lil’ isopod!
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We didn't have a single term around here.
Most common was punkin bug, or pumpkin bug for you damn yankees.
But, roly-poly, tomato bug, and pill bug were all in common usage.
What's interesting to me is that they were also called doodle bugs, despite a completely different bug also being called that. Doodle bug is also used for ant lions around here; indeed, that's what they're called almost exclusively.
They were both called that for the same reason, the little doodly tracks they leave in fine sand and soil, though if a punkin bug is on that, they're going elsewhere because they don't really like those conditions.
I'm also from the south, and pumpkin bugs and tomato bugs are totally different things. Pumpkin bugs aka squash bugs are Anasa tristis, and tomato bugs are Engytatus modestus. I've never once heard anyone call roly polys pumpkin or tomato bugs
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Roly Poly
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Roly Poly
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Not a bug technically, an isopod.
People pay stupid money for rubber duckies:
If I had cash, I’d want a giant one:
I always called them Rollie pollies. My brother in laws earliest memory of me is me explaining how good they were to eat.
My ex collects this things. Apparently there a market for raising and selling them.
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Doodle bugs
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Roly Poly
wrote last edited by [email protected]holy moly a rolly poly!
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Not a bug technically, an isopod.
People pay stupid money for rubber duckies:
If I had cash, I’d want a giant one:
I always called them Rollie pollies. My brother in laws earliest memory of me is me explaining how good they were to eat.
Not a bug technically, an isopod.
It's not like "bug" is a technical term in the first place. Why not "bug"? It looks buggy to me.
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My ex collects this things. Apparently there a market for raising and selling them.
We keep some little orange isos in our reptile tanks to help with keeping the tank clean. I feel weird paying for fancy "potato bugs" but they apparently help, so here I am.
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American from the Midwest here. We alternated between pillbug and roly poly.
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My three year old calls them “ah-peel”
Edit: I just showed him this post and he said “That my best friend owl-putty.” Progress.
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Pill bugs here on the West Coast but in the Midwest we called them roly poly.
I work in pest control and they're generally referred to as pill bugs in the industry.
West coast- my friends all called them pill bugs, but we called them sow bugs.
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Not a bug technically, an isopod.
It's not like "bug" is a technical term in the first place. Why not "bug"? It looks buggy to me.
It is. Insects in the order Hemiptera are “true bugs.” Pokey mouth parts for piercing and sucking and something special about the wings, I forget what.
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His Divine shadow.
Edit: spelling
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Is that a woodlouse?
For some unknown reason, these are known as a "cheese log" in parts of the UK
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Pill bugs here on the West Coast but in the Midwest we called them roly poly.
I work in pest control and they're generally referred to as pill bugs in the industry.
Pillbugs here in the Midwest.
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I'm also from the south, and pumpkin bugs and tomato bugs are totally different things. Pumpkin bugs aka squash bugs are Anasa tristis, and tomato bugs are Engytatus modestus. I've never once heard anyone call roly polys pumpkin or tomato bugs
All I can say is that people be trippin. When I have asked people why they call them that, the usual is "I dunno, I guess they look like pumpkins, that's just what my family called them, so I do too".
I suspect that it comes down to nobody really remembering why a bug is called its colloquial name, nor bothering to ask or explain, and after while, the mistake becomes the norm. Kids mislabel stuff a lot, and spread things faster than they do germs. Easy for weird things to slip in.
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PNW - I learned them as both rollie pollies and pill-bugs, when I was growing up.
But also friends.
They are so cute!
