It is called a pissebed in Dutch...
Yet where i live we call them verkskes ( little piggies )
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It is called a pissebed in Dutch...
Yet where i live we call them verkskes ( little piggies )
I was 30+ before I knew not everyone called them slaters
I call them isopods but that's only because I started keeping them as pets Rn I have some dairy cow isopods
Me in Australia: Now that's a real Butchy boy.
Me in Australia: that's a slater
I mean I have a pair of aquatic sowbugs I've been keeping in an empty yogurt cup. They look like regular sowbugs but they're underwater, hence aquatic sowbug.
I was taught they were called pill bugs. Although I knew them as also roly polys. My mother called them pill bugs, the other kids called them roly polys.
She told me it was an east coast versus west coast name and clearly is more "every group of people had decided they wanted to name this thing themselves" XD
DOODLE BUGS!
I'm my head a doodle bug is more like a beetle with long segmented legs that kind of bobs around as it doodles along.
Yeah, we all have our own tags for critters. Went looking online for doodle bugs and most all of the links pointed to ant lions. We called those sand diggers when I was a kid.
Swedish: Gråsugga = gray sow.
My MIL calls them Brick Beetles…cause every time you lift a brick up there one under it. Partner was 30 before she found out that’s not their real name.
It's because they roll up into a cute little ball and it tickles us in a way nothing else does
Man, what the fuck did the roly polys do the the Netherlands?!
i think they might have pissed in some beds
https://thimsternisse.com/healing-magic/
Apparently they fed them to kids as a cure for wetting the bed.
Yeah fair, I'd have a bit of anger too if I'd been force-fed woodlice as a child.
They piss in our beds! grrr
"I swear, it was these bugs!"
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