What do you call this bug?

[Generic Account]

Multiple answers allowed.

Spoiler

 

[Soldi]

Woodlouse (I think) ?

Any big will in my room/house will usually be suffocated by deodorant then hoovered up/thrown out of the window.

 

[Soldi]

Not the south calling it a FLUMP

Does Eddie live down there?

 

[VoR]

Christina Aguilera

 

[Phoenix]

I don’t interact with bugs

 

[jivafox]

Who is calling it CHEESY PAPA

 

[jivafox]

A CHIGGY PIG?

 

[GNL]

I would also call it an EARWIG I think(?) but that wasn't an option.

 

[jivafox]

I would also call it an EARWIG I think(?) but that wasn't an option.

It’s absolutely NOT AN EARWIG

 

[Generic Account]

I would also call it an EARWIG I think(?) but that wasn't an option.

Isn't this an earwig? Though I'd say eary-wig.

 

[funky]

What the fuck is a NUTBUG and which WRETCHED SOUL put that map together suggesting we in the North West call it that. I've never heard that word IN MY LIFE

In fact that map deserves the dreaded SMILIE TRINITY OF TERROR*



(*funky trademark)

 

[RJN]

I call it a roly poly

 

[GNL]

Isn't this an earwig? Though I'd say eary-wig.

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You're both correct. Apologies, I'm no ENTOMOLOGIST.

Or as they say in the Midlands, CHUDDY PIGOGRAPHER.

 

[Alla]

Cochinilla. I never thought the name had anything to do with pig (cochino = pig), but I just saw that it's there in the list too, how weird.

 

[jivafox]

They’re called “Moch Coed” in Welsh, which means “Wood Pig”. Weird that pig is shared across in Spanish too.

 

[GNL]

Crawley Baker, Butcher Boy and Granny Grunter all sound like Victorian serial killers.

 

[Generic Account]

They've always been slaters to us. Woodlouse technically, but slater as the standard name.

Apparently Scots, Aussies and NZers agree.

 

[funky]

I know there's a pandemic on but I'm shaking here thinking how long it took you to type that poll out

 

[Generic Account]

I know there's a pandemic on but I'm shaking here thinking how long it took you to type that poll out

Forever on my phone.

 

[Generic Account]

I know there's a pandemic on but I'm shaking here thinking how long it took you to type that poll out

I'M INJURED!

Spoiler

 

[Generic Account]

Now go name every country in the world.

 

[funky]

hot legs.

OK I'll go do it if you will.

 

[Generic Account]

hot legs.

OK I'll go do it if you will.

I've done it about 24 times since February.

Waiting for everyone to share their results before I flounce in.

 

[Tisch]

Can we agree on if we do it on phone or PC? Phone has autocorrect which is a big advantage.

 

[Generic Account]

Can we agree on if we do it on phone or PC? Phone has autocorrect which is a big advantage.

PC! Phone doesn't let you do the map one does it?

 

[Tisch]

Well I just did it!

But I won't share my time in case it's crap if we're agreeing on PC only

 

[funky]

PC ONLY

 

[Generic Account]

DONE.

 

[Kate]

Omg. How is that anything other than a woodlouse and what are these TWELVETY BILLION OTHER MADE UP NAMES!

Put a bread roll up and we’ll see what’s really happening

 

[GNL]

hot legs.

Scrolled fast and thought this was your name for our friend Billy Buttons.

 

[Diddy]

Woodlouse for me
Weirdly the only other name I’ve see for them is Pill Bug, which isn’t there (it’s American I guess?)

 

[Marilyn]

I’ve never seen this bug and although I wish all of God’s creatures well, I would not like to encounter one in the future

 

[RJN]

I wish I called it a cheesy papa

 

[ButterTart]

Earwig or Woodpig

 

[ButterTart]

I’ve never seen this bug and although I wish all of God’s creatures well, I would not like to encounter one in the future

They’re actually quite cute. Basically they’re not spiders, so they score points for that alone.

 

[BoysForSeles]

It’s a chiggy pig where I’m from.

 

[Star]

I've never known any other name than woodlouse for it!

 

[jyxz]

Plain ole woodlouse for me.

We had this exact conversation in work a few years back and one person said they called it a Granny Knoblett!

 

[Jark]

what is this topic?

up next: do you also call a LADY BIRD a GUACAMOLE TITTYPIE?

 

[Devil]

To be fair it’s a slater to me, but I’d know it as a woodlouse as well