• SwizzleStick@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Woodlice are my favourite for this. From the wiki:

    Common names include:

    • armadillo bug
    • boat-builder (Newfoundland, Canada)
    • butcher boy or butchy boy (Australia, mostly around Melbourne)
    • carpenter or cafner (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
    • cheeselog (Reading, England)
    • cheesy bobs (Guildford, England)
    • cheesy bug (North West Kent, Gravesend, England)
    • chiggy pig (Devon, England)
    • chisel pig
    • chucky pig (Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, England)
    • doodlebug (also used for the larva of an antlion and for the cockchafer)
    • fat pig (Ireland)
    • gramersow (Cornwall, England)
    • hog-louse
    • millipedus
    • QuaQua regional to Beddau and Keppoch Street Roath
    • mochyn coed (‘tree pig’), pryf lludw (‘ash bug’), granny grey in Wales
    • pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium)
    • potato bug
    • roll up bug
    • roly-poly
    • slater (Scotland, Ulster, New Zealand and Australia)
    • sow bug
    • woodbunter
    • wood bug (British Columbia, Canada)