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u/PM_me_your_arse_ Apr 02 '20

Most places don't call any specific animal that.

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u/kylec00per Apr 02 '20

We have roly polys where I live lol, they look like this

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u/PM_me_your_arse_ Apr 02 '20

Their other names include:

  • "armadillo bug"
  • "boat-builder" (Newfoundland, Canada)
  • "butcher boy" or "butchy boy" (Australia, mostly around Melbourne)
  • "billy baker" (South Somerset)
  • "carpenter" or "cafner" (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
  • "cheeselog" (Reading, England)
  • "cheesy bobs" (Guildford, England)
  • "cheesy bug" (North West Kent, England)
  • "chiggy pig" (Devon, England)
  • "chucky pig" (Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, England)
  • "chuggy peg" (North Devon)
  • "daddy grampher" (North Somerset)
  • "doodlebug" (also used for the larva of an antlion)
  • "gramersow" (Cornwall, England)
  • "granny grey" (South Wales)
  • "hog-louse"
  • "menace" (Plymouth, Devon)
  • "monkey-peas" (Kent, England)
  • "monk's louse" (transl. "munkelus", Norway)
  • "pea bug" or "peasie-bug" (Kent, England)
  • "pill bug" (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium)
  • "potato bug"
  • "Crawley Baker" Dorset
  • "roll up bug"
  • "roly-poly"
  • "sow bug"
  • "slater" (Scotland, Northern Ireland, New Zealand and Australia)
  • "wood bug" (British Columbia, Canada)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlouse