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minus-squareSwizzleStick@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up36·1 day agoWoodlice are my favourite for this. From the wiki: Common names include: armadillo bug boat-builder (Newfoundland, Canada) butcher boy or butchy boy (Australia, mostly around Melbourne) carpenter or cafner (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada) cheeselog (Reading, England) cheesy bobs (Guildford, England) cheesy bug (North West Kent, Gravesend, England) chiggy pig (Devon, England) chisel pig chucky pig (Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, England) doodlebug (also used for the larva of an antlion and for the cockchafer) fat pig (Ireland) gramersow (Cornwall, England) hog-louse millipedus QuaQua regional to Beddau and Keppoch Street Roath mochyn coed (‘tree pig’), pryf lludw (‘ash bug’), granny grey in Wales pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium) potato bug roll up bug roly-poly slater (Scotland, Ulster, New Zealand and Australia) sow bug woodbunter wood bug (British Columbia, Canada)
minus-squareChump [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·6 hours agorolly-poley gang rise up
minus-squareSibshops@lemmy.myserv.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 day agoI had no idea what you were talking about until I got to pill bug.
minus-squareSwizzleStick@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·21 hours agoStevie/Stevies (as in the name, Steve) is the house-level localised name here. Stevie Slater. Why, I don’t know.
minus-squarebubbalu [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·22 hours agoI had not clue what this was till I got to rollypolly lol
minus-squaredavidgro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoI seriously thought my parents made that up and nobody else called them that. I still don’t know if they have any particular affinity for potatoes or something.
Woodlice are my favourite for this. From the wiki:
Common names include:
rolly-poley gang rise up
I had no idea what you were talking about until I got to pill bug.
Stevie/Stevies (as in the name, Steve) is the house-level localised name here. Stevie Slater.
Why, I don’t know.
Roly poly or pill bugs!
…powerhug!..
I had not clue what this was till I got to rollypolly lol
Potato bug ftw
I seriously thought my parents made that up and nobody else called them that. I still don’t know if they have any particular affinity for potatoes or something.