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[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 months ago (35 children)

We always just called them Roly-Polys! They provided hours of entertainment for kids in the days before everyone had the Internet lol

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (13 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Pill bugs and potato bugs are some others I've heard.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

In Nor Cal where I grew up, potato bugs are a totally different bug that looks like a cockroach fucked a grasshopper.

edit: Apparently their real name is a "Jerusalem cricket" and they will bite the shit out of you if you let them.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Oh. No, thank you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

They look like a pale version of our Weta.

But our bugs are chill. Little jumpy and spiky though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We have a similar bug here called a cave cricket! They look similar but cave crickets are harmless lol

[–] Scubus 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not venomous or anything, but if it's the same cave cricket or "spider cricket" we have here then they will also bite the shit out of you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The ones we have here can't bite anything. If they get scared their only defense mechanism is to jump straight at the threat and hope to scare it away lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I have a deep-seated irrational fear of bugs large enough to "pop" when you step on them, and I think it stems from growing up around these monstrosities. They're not as bad as bugs in a lot of places, but goddamn does it hurt to get bit by them, especially as a child.

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