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We always just called them Roly-Polys! They provided hours of entertainment for kids in the days before everyone had the Internet lol
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.
Woodlouse in the UK
We called them slaters.
Autocorrect turned that into skaters and I got a hilarious image in my head.
Are you from Canada by any chance? Ive only heard other Canadians use Roly-Poly for these little guys.
Nope, I’m from South Carolina in the US! That’s what everyone around here calls them!
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That’s not an earwig, this is an earwig
Whatever you say, entomologist Crocodile Dundee
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That’s not an earwig, this is an earwig
Do NOT put these in your ears.
Also a nice usefull guy, with a lot of bad Myths out there, because of his (useless) tweezers, which only cause interests on the females of this species.
That’s not an earwig, this is an earwig
You had some trouble with the post button?
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)
I had a similar thing one time. But my comment wasn’t as cute as your repeating earwig, so I think you win out.
These guys are not my friends. They chew through the bottom of my tomato plant stems. Just the bottom, never the rest. Just enough to kill my plants, and then off they go to fuck up something else.
Now I catch them and feed them to my chickens.
They are also friendly mascots
No one told me life was gonna be this way
Isopods may be friends but all arthropods can stay the fuck away from me.
Do they do something that inconveniences people to not consider them friendly?
A couple months ago I had an absolute infestation of these after a rainy week, literally probably cleaned up over a hundred of their carcasses from inside my home.
What was the original?
Pill millipedes (looks like Glomeris marginata) vs isopods (some Armadillidium species as it can roll up into a ball). Incredible case of convergent evolution
holy cow, I was today years old when I found out they weren’t the same family.
i thought both pictures, top/bottom, were an interesting factoid where they are crustaceans… you mean to tell me the top one is a millipede?! my life is a lie.
Land lobsters ftw!
