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from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 05 Jun 23:26
https://mander.xyz/post/31484839

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bobtimus_prime@feddit.org on 05 Jun 23:33 next collapse

German is not quite correct. We say “Kellerassel”.
Keller -> Cellar
Assel -> Isopod

Kellenved@sh.itjust.works on 07 Jun 15:15 collapse

In English isopods qualify as bugs

GandalftheBlack@feddit.org on 06 Jun 00:08 next collapse

Does the pissebed eat pissenlits?

Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jun 01:54 next collapse

I love these Lil dudes. I have some in the basement and I feel bad to see them scurry around to find darkness whenever a light is turned on. They are my spirit animal.

Goretantath@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 02:10 next collapse

Roly polys or get the fk out! /s

ryedaft@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jun 06:43 next collapse

Did the Dutch confuse them for dandelions?

Akasazh@feddit.nl on 06 Jun 09:15 collapse

There is some etymological debate on the subject. Some sources say they were ground to a paste and administered for diuretic effect, the same as the flower.

However it’s not a common bit of knowledge or myth, so some etymologists say that the weird has formed in Dutch separately to French.

ryedaft@sh.itjust.works on 06 Jun 11:19 collapse

I know some fancy restaurants have served them as miniature backyard shrimp.

executivechimp@discuss.tchncs.de on 06 Jun 08:53 next collapse

That right there’s a Chucky Pig

JacksonLamb@lemmy.world on 06 Jun 10:03 collapse

The theory that children get to name these things makes sense.

Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee on 06 Jun 09:28 next collapse

Bed pisser is just mean.

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today on 06 Jun 12:14 next collapse

They were Potato Bugs or Ball Bugs for me as a kid, until I heard Roly-poly from a kid at summer camp.

rmuk@feddit.uk on 06 Jun 22:10 next collapse

I’ve lived in a few places around the UK and I have never, ever heard of a “cheesy bug”.

moopet@sh.itjust.works on 09 Jun 09:33 collapse

I always knew them as cheesybobs as a kid, and only realised they were the same thing as “wood louse” or whatever when I grew up.

wieson@feddit.org on 07 Jun 16:12 next collapse

Tf is “global” supposed to mean?

Crankenstein@lemmy.world on 08 Jun 04:57 next collapse

The official common name for the insect, Armadillidium vulgare, in the scientific community. All the rest are colloquial names.

moopet@sh.itjust.works on 09 Jun 09:32 collapse

“Cheesy bug” in parts of the UK? Where I grew up that’s close. They were “Cheesybobs” to everyone I knew.

zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com on 07 Jun 16:47 collapse

As a Canadian : woodbug

vithigar@lemmy.ca on 07 Jun 17:32 collapse

I’m in one of the “certain regions” for carpenter.