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[–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Woodlice 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)
[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Roly poly or pill bugs!

[–] Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I had no idea what you were talking about until I got to pill bug.

[–] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Stevie/Stevies (as in the name, Steve) is the house-level localised name here. Stevie Slater.

Why, I don't know.

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Chump@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

rolly-poley gang rise up

[–] bubbalu@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago

I had not clue what this was till I got to rollypolly lol