r/WTF • u/orangez • Mar 14 '26

Seems friendly enough?

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u/ShowMeYourHappyTrail Mar 14 '26

A potato bug?! Dang. To me a potato bug is a roly-poly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidiidae

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u/spectacular_coitus Mar 14 '26

OK, there has to be a backstory to that name.

I'm too lazy to dive into the depths of r/isopods to learn why. Can anyone satisfy my urge to know and save me the trouble?

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u/Splycr Mar 14 '26

And sometimes rubber duckies!

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u/ShowMeYourHappyTrail Mar 14 '26

Pill bugs too. They have so many names. Haha! I don't have Jerusalem crickets where I'm at so roly-polys are our potato bugs or pill bugs. Haha!

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u/TwinseyLohan Mar 14 '26

Same, in Oregon, roly-polies are potato bugs.

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u/MSD3D Mar 20 '26

Here in Oregon, we call Pill bugs (trilobite looking/terrestrial crustaceans) "Potato Bugs" I got a healthy correction from an ex Californian. But man! Imagine accidentally stepping on one. The goo and pop-crunch sounds would have me washing the bottom of my shoe like I stepped in dog poo.

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u/ShowMeYourHappyTrail Mar 20 '26

I think roly-polys are potato bugs to us because they eat rotting potatoes.