We always just called them Roly-Polys! They provided hours of entertainment for kids in the days before everyone had the Internet lol
I read somewhere a while back that the nicknames for these creatures is highly regional, and it seemed to pan out when their data showed that the regions which used the two names I know them by are the same ones that my family comes from.
Doodle-bug or roly-poly, btw.
Pill bugs and potato bugs are some others I've heard.
Woodlouse in the UK
These guys are not my friends. They chew through the bottom of my tomato plant stems. Just the bottom, never the rest. Just enough to kill my plants, and then off they go to fuck up something else.
Now I catch them and feed them to my chickens.
They are also friendly mascots
I just came for that. Thanks faster friend !
You wut
No one told me life was gonna be this way
They give live birth. I witnessed it one time.
When I was a kid, my friend and I used to collect all the bugs in the yard and make landscapes for them in the sandbox.
One of the few bugs I do not find icky and will willingly touch.
What was the original?
Roly-poly/pillbug vs isopod?
I thought they were the same thing, but pill bugs always look bland while isopods have fancy breeds
We always just called them Roly-Polys! They provided hours of entertainment for kids in the days before everyone had the Internet lol
I read somewhere a while back that the nicknames for these creatures is highly regional, and it seemed to pan out when their data showed that the regions which used the two names I know them by are the same ones that my family comes from.
Doodle-bug or roly-poly, btw.
Pill bugs and potato bugs are some others I've heard.
Woodlouse in the UK