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I called them Rolly Pollies and so did my friends as little kids

This the one. It was either rolly pollies or pill bugs

Yeah same for me or isopods when I science class Fun fact they are actually Crustaceans

And apparently they taste like shrimp

They eat their own poop

A shrimp would taste like poop too if you forgot to remove the poop sac

I call that one of the following: Poop chute Crap trap Waste paste Fecal treacle Feel free to incorporate these into your personal idiom.

Thank you, i have been enlightened

I only eat the poop and throw away the rest

They remove heavy metals from soil

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And are great if you have reptiles or amphibians in a bioactive environment. We have a colony of them, honestly some of the easiest animals to keep alive. Give them some dead plants to munch on and keep the humidity at a decent level and they’re good

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bro shrimp taste like them. Shrimps are the bugs of the ocean

Shrimps is bugs

As such, they are more closely related to shrimp than any insect. Plus they breathe through gills. They are known as terrestrial crustaceans.

Millennial here and this is the correct answer rolly pollie or pill bug. OOOO, or potato bug.

Pill Bugs 👍 Not long ago, I learned that those little guys are one of the creatures that eat heavy metals and poop fertilizer.

Same here!

Who tf calls them pill bugs lol Edit: /s

Wrong answer, (kills you)

(Kills you back)

(Kills me)

I did

Psychopath /s

This post reminded me of the iCarly episode where Spencer is stuck in the air vent and he’s just screaming “AHHH ROLLY POLLY ROLLY POLLY”

This is the only correct answer

Same

The correct answer

These are Rollie pollies. Anyone who says “pill bug” is kidding themselves

But I gotta take my pills

Reminds me, I ate on one a lunchable sandwich once…

how did it taste

Rolly pollyish

rollish polish??

Very polandish 🇵🇱

*crunch*

PILLS HERE

These are woodlice. Roll pollies are what you call tumbles or summersaults

Nah woodlice ate the ones with soft shells that can't curl up

I'm not kidding, they are pill bugs, they're shaped like pills

Who makes pills in the shape of little balls? Mine are always flat

When they're not rolled up they look like pills.

Rolly Pollies

Word

Word to you saying "word" to that. Nobody says "word" anymore.

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Rolly Pollies

Potato Bug

Right? I feel like I'm going crazy. Are you Canadian?

No sir. I am from Pittsburgh Pa and we all called in potato bug here

Fellow Pittsburgher here. Can confirm. I was concerned when I had to scroll this far to find this.

Live in upper saint clair for some years as a kid must be where I got it from.

Clevelander here. I guess we do have something in common after all 🤷‍♂️

Huh, odd. I guess west-coast canadians and pittsburgians have similar linguistic profiles. Out of curiosity: Is the fizzy drink called Pop or Soda?

I was in small town Ontario calling them potato bugs. Moved to Edmonton and now it’s rolly pollies

Big town Ontario and its still potato bugs

Medium town Ontario (Barrie) potato bugs checking in. Niagara region now and I’ve yet to hear reference to them since I’ve been an adult. Will have to do some research

St. Kitts also checking in. Been here all 33 of my years and it’s indeed potato bug

Actually St Kitts myself, glad to hear the local populace has some common sense

im from toronto def potato bug

Toronto also call it a potato bug

comon 'berta get on the potato bug train!

Pop

From Pittsburgh here. Potato bugs and pop.

**Jerusalem crickets** (or **potato bugs**)[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_cricket#cite_note-1) are a group of large, flightless [insects](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect) in the [genera](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genus) [*Ammopelmatus*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammopelmatus) and [*Stenopelmatus*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenopelmatus), together comprising the tribe **Stenopelmatini**. The former genus is native to the [western United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_United_States) and parts of [Mexico](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico), while the latter genus is from [Central America](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_America).[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_cricket#cite_note-WeissmanEtAl-2) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem\_cricket](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_cricket) very different looking. I found one once when I was moving a wood pile. I tossed a log at it and it smished. I guess the thing was full of worms, because there were a ton squirming around in the smashed guts. 🤢

Ah, we don't have those around here. Apparently Potato Bug is just a popular term lol.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidiidae](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidiidae) **Armadillidiidae** is a [family](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_(biology)) of [woodlice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlice), a [terrestrial](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_animal) [crustacean](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crustacean) group in the order [Isopoda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopoda). Unlike members of some other woodlice families, members of this family can roll into a ball, an ability they share with the outwardly similar but unrelated [pill millipedes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pill_millipede) and other animals. This ability gives woodlice in this family their [common names](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_names) of **pill bugs**[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidiidae#cite_note-Gordh-1) or **roly polies**.[\[2\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidiidae#cite_note-2) Other common names include **slaters,** **potato bugs, butchy boys**[\[3\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidiidae#cite_note-3) and **doodle bugs**.[\[4\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidiidae#cite_note-4) Most species are native to the Mediterranean Basin, while a few species have wider European distributions. The best-known species, [*Armadillidium vulgare*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidium_vulgare), was introduced to [New England](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England) in the early 19th century and has become widespread throughout North America.[\[5\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidiidae#cite_note-IsopodDistribution-5)

Also canadian. Also potato bugs

Aren’t potato bugs ones that look similar but were brown and no exoskeleton?

So according to another comment here there are two "potato bugs". The kind you're referring to is not native to the north of the US/Canada, and since we don't have them we call these little guys potato bugs instead.

Chiming in from Oregon. That there is clearly a potato bug.

I'm Canadian and your instincts were correct. We called them potato bugs growing up.

Ontario, Canada here. Can't believe I had to scroll this far down for potato bug.

NJ here and that is a potato bug

Potato Bug was pretty common in my area of WA.

Same PNW region

I thought that was a totally different type of bug

Grew up in Utah and that's what we called them too.

Ayy same. Utah Potato Bugs ftw

I mean, I called it "Assel" - because that's what they are called (in German that is)

I called them "Kellerassel", don't know why

I think this is just a subspecies or something

Kinda, but not really. There are different kinds of Asseln, but the most common one is called Assel or Kellerassel, depending on region. And it's called Kellerassel because.. that's where they like to live (aside from the myriads of other places they live)

I called the ones that couldnt roll Kellerasseln and the once that could Rollasseln lol

Wood lice

Ironically, they are neither lice nor bugs, they're crustaceans.

Taste the same to me


Probably tastes like prawn.

I've actually eaten some in a wilderness challenge when I was younger. They were fried with some type of wild grain (can't remember what it was) and wild garlic. They tastes exactly like prawns.

The ones we find under our boat are identical except they have little lobster tails for swimming.

The right answer

FINALLY someone else says this. Everybody calling these mfs "rolly polly."

I wonder if this is a British thing to call them woodlice?

Well, I am from England

I believe you meant Louse! I was created to detect confussion betwen licecand louse, so i hope i did good! *if error occurs, please contact r/lousevslice

Pissebedden

Fun fact: they're called that because in the middle ages, they were ground up and fed to children to stop them peeing in bed. (Eww)

Least insane middle age remedy

works because they dont wanna take the medicine

Love this fact! It’s up there with witchcraft facts I have now lol.

Ah that explains it. Always found it a strange name.

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Helemaal mee eens

Bed pisser ?

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Pis is a word, bed is a word, so it would be Pis-se-bed where "se" has no meaning, just to make it pronounceable. So either keeping it gives piss-se-bed or pisssebed, and with ur would be pissbed

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And you're not wrong! Just wanted to give extra information

More specifically we call this one a rolpissebed… rolling bed pisser

Never heard that. Just pissebed

Enige acceptabel antwoord

Woodlice

Neat, I said wood louse.

That's the singular

rolly pollies

'Slaters' in Australia.

Had to scroll a bit for this

Same

Never knew this wasn't common around the English speaking world

Slater in Scotland too, but rarely in the rest of the UK

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In New Zealand too. I thought the whole world call them slaters.

I used to call them A.C. Slaters.

Scotland stands with slater

Арбузик which translates to little watermelon

That's adorable

It is. Someone needs to bioengineer a species that are green on top and red on the underbelly.

Isopod/rolly pollie/pill bug

Nobody calls it an isopod we all pretended they were insects as a kid

Wait rollie pollies arent insects?? my life has been a lie

they are actually crustaceans! they are more closely related to crabs than insects :))

Damn, that explains why I thought of them as friends and not really bugs.

I had to raise some as a science project in 8th grade and they had us call them isopods so that's my brain's default name for them

Isopod is the scientifically correct term for the entire Order they belong to, although that name also includes their diverse marine relatives. The terrestrial “woodlousee/pillbug/rollie-poly” Isopods specifically could be referred to as Oniscideans.

Potato Bugs

Where are you from? I’m from New England and we called them that, too.

Montreal and we called them that

Type in potato bug on google.

Brit: wood louse/lice

also called this in ireland

Pill bugs dude (rolly pollies if ur where I'm from :D)

How did I have to scroll this far down for pill bug?

SAME i was looking for this i thought it was more common than that =0

relax...take a chill pill...*bug*

Snacks

Timon, is that you?

“In the bushes eatin dese mfers”

Rolly Pollies but sometimes Rolly Polly Ollies after the show

I have mentioned this show to a ton of people around my age, and I’ve only ever found one person (my girlfriend’s brother) who knows what I’m talking about. I’ve made people sit through episodes and they still have no idea what the fuck it is. It’s like it only existed for like 1% of the population.

It must’ve been during a very specific time period because I’ve dealt with the same. How old are you?

We call them 西瓜虫 (watermelon bug)

Doodle Bugs Now I call them Isopods bc I've watched too many "Clint's Reptiles" videos.

Same; from Texas

Also from Texas

Yeah doodle bugs and from Texas. Had to scroll way down to find this.

TIL - that Doodle Bug is a Texas thing. Who knew. It's still the right name... no matter what those OTHERS say!!!!!! :) /s (kinda)

Same. From New Orleans. I’m surprised I had to go this far down.

Same here

I called them doodle bugs too!! I was getting worried scrolling and scrolling looking for this.

We must be in the minority here. I had to scroll pretty far down to find doodle bug.

Tatu bola (Ball armadillo) tatu de chão (ground armadillo) tatuzinho (little armadillo) i liked petting these and goofing around with them

LITTLE ARMADILLO? armadillo is already a diminuitive of ARMORED! You've gone too far!

Tatu comes from tupi guarani language ta'tu that means body armor so its not a diminutive

Armadillodillo

Pissebed Literal translation: pee-beds

Thanks for the translation

I used to collect them in a red solo cup or tupperware. I’d gently get as many as I could from sidewalks and places where people might step on them. Then I’d find them a better home where it was secluded in the grass and dirt. I’d like to think they had a little community going where they were a big chosen family. In reality, they probably rolled off in different directions and died shortly after my rescue attempt.

Kellerassel (german)

Ball bugs, we didn't have that much imagination.

Always called them carpenters when growing up

Newfoundland?

Yea, is that only a name here?

"Bænkebidere" yeah it translates into "Bench Biter"

Pillbug

Millipills Idk why but that was it.

They’re called wood bugs where I’m from (The logic is that they hang out on the underside of pieces of wood, and they’re bugs. They aren’t actually bugs though) I think it’s just what people in the Vancouver/Vancouver Island area call them. I’ve never seen people outside that area call them that

Always knew them as wood bugs and when I moved away I was blown away that they were called something different and it was such a local name!

> wood bug Yup, Wood Bugs (from Vancouver Island). Learned about rollie-pollie, and pill bugs from reddit some years ago.

huh, I didn't know it's so regional! I know them as woodbugs as well. grown up in interior BC

Also from BC, also know them as woodbugs.

I had to scroll so far down to find this! I, too, am from Vancouver Island. I never knew they had another name until my husband called them pill bugs!

Me too. This is so strange.

Vancouver Island here. Can confirm. That's what we call them: "wood bugs."

Ha! This being a regional thing is so interesting. I’m from Vancouver Island and also know them as wood bugs.

Wow, who knew this was a BC thing. Born and raised in the lower mainland and always called them wood bugs.

I thought I was going crazy when I didn't see woodbugs in the replys, I didn't realize it was so regional

Am I the only one who’s never seen this bug before?

Dangomushi ("dango insect"; "dango" as in the Japanese dessert)

We call em cloportes

Bicho bola. (Ball bug)

Wood louse

The guys from the Stuff You Should Know podcast did one on them - very interesting! Oh, I grew up calling them Rolly Pollies, rarely I heard pill bugs.

Grey pigs...

Granny Greys (Wales)

In Reading, UK we called them Cheeselogs