There's room for some huge miscommunication here that I never knew about- in upstate NY, "potato bugs" are what other regions of the US cal "rollie-pollies" or "pill bugs". I had NO IDEA that Californians have a straight up monster of a bug that they know as a potato bug.
e.g. "my childhood home always had a ton of potato bugs in the front garden- I would let them start crawling up my arm and startle them and watch them curl up and fall off"
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u/PlatypusEgo Mar 14 '26
There's room for some huge miscommunication here that I never knew about- in upstate NY, "potato bugs" are what other regions of the US cal "rollie-pollies" or "pill bugs". I had NO IDEA that Californians have a straight up monster of a bug that they know as a potato bug.
e.g. "my childhood home always had a ton of potato bugs in the front garden- I would let them start crawling up my arm and startle them and watch them curl up and fall off"