• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world
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    10 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

    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 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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      10 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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          10 months ago

          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.

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            10 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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              10 months ago

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