Top tier bug friends
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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!
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Rolly-polly as a kid.
Wood louse as an adult.
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My ex collects this things. Apparently there a market for raising and selling them.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Springtails and isopods are good “clean up” crews. Usually reptiles, but you can also do cool bioactive set ups for rats.
Springtails are also not bugs and are hella under appreciated. They are absolutely adorable under a microscope, but you just can’t find great pictures online.
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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.
You can go up to “insecta” for “bugs” in general.
If you wanted to be nit picky/old school you could exclude all non-heteropterans from “true bugs.”
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use to call these
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Well, my voice, if I ever tried. I think a whistle would just be pointless. Do they even have ears? Can you call something without ears, no matter what you use? #l2s
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holy moly a rolly poly!
Rolly poly in my guacamole!
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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.
You'd want a giant one?
Giant isopods are found in the deep ocean, typically dwelling on the ocean floor up to 7,000 feet deep in regions like the Indo-Pacific and western Atlantic oceans.
Would they survive on sea level?
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I don't see potato bug yet
Also grew up calling them potato bugs, northeast US?
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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.
Like how people call crane flies "mosquito hawks" but crane flies don't even have mouths as adults and don't eat mosquitoes. People don't realize you can call a crane fly a gollywhopper and be more accurate.
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Rolly Pollies
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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.
Oh, well TIL, my bad
