Their family name is Armadillidae (arm-a-dill-a-dee) which also just sounds silly
Armadillidae
Not to be confused with Armadillidiidae.
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Aww, tiny armadillos!
Probably the cutest insect, and they do us no harm. Unshocking they have a collection of amusing names.
Apparently, they’re not actually insects, but rather crustaceans.
That’s actually not shocking either! Nice, thanks for the info :)
Norwegian, a loved one goes by many names…
Melkedyr: Milk bugs
Benkebitere: Bench biters
Kaffetroll: Coffee trolls
Munkebiller: Monk beetles
Kaffelus: Coffee lice
Munkelus: Monk lice
Moldokser: Mold oxen
Kaffedyr: Coffee bugs
Tusselus: Goblin lice
Paddelus: Toad lice
Potetroll: Potato trolls
note to self: don’t buy coffee in Norway
DOODLE BUGS!
I’m my head a doodle bug is more like a beetle with long segmented legs that kind of bobs around as it doodles along.
Yeah, we all have our own tags for critters. Went looking online for doodle bugs and most all of the links pointed to ant lions. We called those sand diggers when I was a kid.
I was taught they were called pill bugs. Although I knew them as also roly polys. My mother called them pill bugs, the other kids called them roly polys.
She told me it was an east coast versus west coast name and clearly is more “every group of people had decided they wanted to name this thing themselves” XD
Forbidden boba
Nice-o-pod
It is called a pissebed in Dutch…
Yet where i live we call them verkskes ( little piggies )
I call them isopods but that’s only because I started keeping them as pets Rn I have some dairy cow isopods
My MIL calls them Brick Beetles…cause every time you lift a brick up there one under it. Partner was 30 before she found out that’s not their real name.
It does have a hard back
