Reblog this and tag it with your first language(s), the area you live in/grew up in, and the name of this bug:
This post is a blessing because I’ve learned that in Austrailia they call roly polys butchy boys and in Norwegian it’s a tusseluss. Canadians have apparently never seen them and are terrified of them.
Interesting fact for those of you calling them woodlice: woodlice (or sowbugs) are actually a different genus than rollies and are flatter and can’t roll up.
Interesting fact for terrified Canadians and other parties: the reason these things are so weird looking is that they’re not insects or arachnids or anything- they’re actually isopod crustaceans (closely related to trilobites.)
I honestly possess an alarming amount of knowledge pertaining to rollies but hey one can always know more, so I was doing some reading and found out that there are 45 species native to the UK and I though ‘hey that’s pretty neat I should add that to the post,’ but then just as I’m about to close the page I see that in Reading (the town) people caLL THEM CHEESELOGS??? I’M LOSING MY SHIT OH MY G-O-S-H.
CHEESELOGS? What?! Butchy boyd? I always called them pillbugs.
But whatever you choose to call them, I think we can all agree that they’re fantastic.
Cheeselogs is the closest because they’re actually called potato bugs.
I’m gonna second the vote for “pillbugs”, though I don’t know if I’ve ever actually seen one in real life!
I have at least heard people refer to them as such before. In person. So yes, pill bugs seems reasonable.
ROLY POLY! That’s the colloquial name, but pill bug is the “proper” name. (Oh, the U.S.)
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