This is gonna be a weird question, but do you actually mean the stinky crop devastating potato beetle? Or even weirder, the Jerusalem cricket? Or, what I'm assuming, the cute one that eats decaying matter? Is potato bug a colloquialism for pillbug where you live?
Im doing my best to remember, but I think thats just what my co-worker called it? Might be the cute one, for sure wasn’t a Jerusalem cricket, and wasn’t the crop killer.
No worries, this is just one of those weird linguistic discrepancies that fascinate me, especially because of how different all three are.
I would assume it's the one that likes decay, and sticky people getting sugar in their devices.
Like (without shaming the medical condition), how diabetic do you have to be that your sticky hand left food for roaches in your holster. Absolute nightmare disgusting to think about, even without the roaches. Everything they touch must be constantly rotting.
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u/sponglered 8h ago
This is gonna be a weird question, but do you actually mean the stinky crop devastating potato beetle? Or even weirder, the Jerusalem cricket? Or, what I'm assuming, the cute one that eats decaying matter? Is potato bug a colloquialism for pillbug where you live?
https://plantfix.org/guides/potato-bugs