• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

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

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      7 months ago

      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.

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          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.

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              7 months ago

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

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                7 months ago

                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.

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                  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

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              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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      7 months ago

      I grew up calling them sow bugs, and I’ve learned this was weird because I’ve never met anyone else who called them that!

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      7 months ago

      Are you from Canada by any chance? Ive only heard other Canadians use Roly-Poly for these little guys.

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            7 months ago

            Yeah, my Lemmy client timed out twice trying to upload the photo. Then failed again when I tried using a link. Each time I refreshed it and didn’t see a comment, so I figured might as well try again. I noticed the multiple comments but it looks like my client just silently fails when deleting them. I figured it was funny so I didn’t try too hard to delete them (ツ)

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              I had a similar thing one time. But my comment wasn’t as cute as your repeating earwig, so I think you win out.