They piss in our beds! grrr

https://thimsternisse.com/healing-magic/

Apparently they fed them to kids as a cure for wetting the bed.

They roly and they poly. No better names exist.

I'll accept carpet shrimp.

Re: your username: Is a Replicant Batty Coda just a normal Batty Coda? He's already a cyborg with crappy/ intermittent reception.

You must be referring to the Woodlouse Hunter which hunts... *checks notes ...Granny Grunters.

I only ever called them woodlouses when I learned that name as a teenager because everyone here always called them "roly-polies" or "potato bugs."

Crustaceans are basically ocean insects, fite me

That's actually not shocking either! Nice, thanks for the info :)

This would have made the Spanish version of A Bugs Life interesting.

Welp, that explains why the Netherlands calls these bugs "bedpissers"

stinky wood/almonds

Isn't almonds also the scent reported by those genetically-equipped to smell cyanide?

Certain ants are pretty distinct. Thatch ants spray formic acid as a defense, and will have a sour smell (and taste, or so I've been told). Odoriferous house ants are named so for obvious reason, and smell (to me) like pen ink. Assuming they taste terrible, but I dunno anyone who's tasted one.

Also, for what it's worth, my entomologist father refers to the thread's subject as "sow bugs", so that's how I know them, but pill bugs and rolly polly are common here.

I’ve never noticed an ant smell, if I had to guess I’d assume it’s some different chemical I’m picking up on from the pill bugs.