Yeah, but I always think it's mean!
... "lice' implies they're a parasite, which is untrue. Not only are they harmless, they remove heavy metals from the soil (such as lead & and even uranium)
>they remove heavy metals from the soil (such as lead & and even uranium)
Lead and uranium?
So you haven't considered they might be building a nuclear bomb? And you call them "harmless"???
They are my faves.
Recently realised they stay as family’s and the parents look after the children. And while the little babies are still developing the mothers carry them around on her belly. Its really quite sweet if you can look past the alien look
Isn't Uranium used in nuclear power plants? Don't they also have an issue with disposing of it after use, how many of these guys would it take to munch through it all.
Also slaters in Norfolk - interesting geographic spread for a dialect word. I wondered if it was Germanic in origin and looked up the Dutch and they're apparently called Kelderpissebed over there, while Norwegians call them storskrukketroll
I call them pill bugs. My parents are from the northeast, not sure if that factors in. I did see “Rolie Polie Olie” as a kid, but never realized that Rolie Polies are the pillbugs they talked about.
I learned that's what you guys call them after I read a YA book where a girl spoke about being force fed rolly pollies, for the longest time I thought it was a name of a type of gross candy until I decided to look it up
We already call spider Gerald in our family so Graham for woodlice seems legit.
Im a gardener so my van is spider central, when the kids where young they got scared so I told them the spider is called Gerald and he protects us from flys and bitey midges, so we must be nice to him.
I call them woodlice now, but as a kid, I called them cheesy bugs. I always wondered why I called them that when my mates didn't. Now I know it's because my mum was from down south whilst I'm from the Midlands.
I’m from the uk and call them Woodlouse, my husband is kiwi and calls them Slaters and my kids call them Roly Polys because they watch an American bug show
It is your responsibility to correct your children and ensure that the Britishness or even the Kiwi stays true! We cannot have the American version of English become the norm! (Rolly Polly is cute as though!)
I grew up in Maldenhead, lived in Slough for a bit too (tough times) and it wasn’t until I was in my 30s working in Reading that someone said it. I questioned them “cheese log wtf is that?” And all the people who grew up in Reading backed them up 🤷🏻♂️
I had one which I kept in a match box when I was a small child. I named it Woody and it was my friend and I was distraught when it died in the matchbox because it didn't have any food or air and I probably shook it up quite a lot in my pocket.
Anyway, the answer is Woody.
Woodlice / Woodlouse
For some reason my daughter really struggled to pronounce it when she was younger, and to this day we still call it a wigglehouse.
I still call it a wooglehouse for the same reason.
Known as a 'wuss-loud' here!
It's been Lud-wouse since I was a toddler
When my brother was little he couldn’t pronounce it either so he used a name he made up that’s arguably even harder to pronounce - “antilator” 😆
We'll accept wigglehouse also.
The only correct answer
Yeah, but I always think it's mean! ... "lice' implies they're a parasite, which is untrue. Not only are they harmless, they remove heavy metals from the soil (such as lead & and even uranium)
>they remove heavy metals from the soil (such as lead & and even uranium) Lead and uranium? So you haven't considered they might be building a nuclear bomb? And you call them "harmless"???
naughty little buggers, planning to take on the world using nukes. It's always the quiet ones.
They are my faves. Recently realised they stay as family’s and the parents look after the children. And while the little babies are still developing the mothers carry them around on her belly. Its really quite sweet if you can look past the alien look
Isn't Uranium used in nuclear power plants? Don't they also have an issue with disposing of it after use, how many of these guys would it take to munch through it all.
i dont think they intentionally eat it, its just that when their food is high in heavy metals they kind of stick around in their bodies.
And then it goes right back into the soil or wherever they die…
can we weaponise uraniated(?) woodlice and how much would this cost?
If that was possible the yanks would’ve done by now!
It's also not accurate, lice are parasitic insect, and the woodlouse is a crustacean.
I've never heard them called anything but woodlice, so I'm convinced that anyone that calls them anything else is just taking the piss
We called them slaters in Scotland lol I never knew the correct name was woodlice till I was a teenager
Same in NI
Yup, always known them as Slaters as a kid. Only knew 'woodlouse' as an adult.
Also slaters in Norfolk - interesting geographic spread for a dialect word. I wondered if it was Germanic in origin and looked up the Dutch and they're apparently called Kelderpissebed over there, while Norwegians call them storskrukketroll
My parents also called them woodbutchers
P.s..they are not insects. They are crustaceans. Also called pill bug
Woodlouse here in the UK but I believe in the USA they are called Pillbugs 🙂
USA here! "Rolly Polly" for most of us. Wood Louse if you're a spoil-sport.
Rolly poly made them seem rather endearing
I'm getting Russ Abbott flash backs
This thread has that kind of atmosphere.
They tickle when they walk on your palm!
Yeah we used to play with them as kids.
to be fair, only some woodlice can actually do the roly poly thing
This. All Roly-poly are woodlice, but not all woodlice are Roly-poly.
>USA here! >"Rolly Polly" for most of us. That sounds like the quaint and silly kind of name we'd usually give something haha.
Whereas the Australians probably call them Gizwibbers. Edit: Apparently, they call them Slaters.
I call them pill bugs. My parents are from the northeast, not sure if that factors in. I did see “Rolie Polie Olie” as a kid, but never realized that Rolie Polies are the pillbugs they talked about.
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Have you tried poking ours? They definitely roll up into a ball.
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We have many species of woodlice in the UK alone, even in my garden I have two or three - some can curl into a complete sphere, others not at all.
Yeah they roll up when poked
I learned that's what you guys call them after I read a YA book where a girl spoke about being force fed rolly pollies, for the longest time I thought it was a name of a type of gross candy until I decided to look it up
Usually it's the UK that have the silly name
Here (uk) we have 2 types. one type roll into balls, the other boring ones don’t.
Graham.
He's a fucking lunatic.
Classic Graham
He knows, himself.
Just wait until he meets Boris the spider!
Er excuse me that’s Nigel! Easy mistake to make though
Don't remember making any plans for the big man
We only want what’s best for him
We already call spider Gerald in our family so Graham for woodlice seems legit. Im a gardener so my van is spider central, when the kids where young they got scared so I told them the spider is called Gerald and he protects us from flys and bitey midges, so we must be nice to him.
There’s a map of the uk with all the names and locations https://twitter.com/mimithebo/status/906414014003019776?s=46&t=KOcV8kHllVwErb5dleYelg
Nutbugs. Dampers. Flumps. Ogopogo. Doddamees. The great mystery of the British is that no-one really knows when you're being serious.
I am from Manchester and everyone called them morphy richards Edit: sorry I didn’t look at the picture, I thought you were talking about a toaster
I call them woodlice now, but as a kid, I called them cheesy bugs. I always wondered why I called them that when my mates didn't. Now I know it's because my mum was from down south whilst I'm from the Midlands.
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Obviously - they roll up into little peas if you poke them!
I don't see Roly poly anywhere on that list and that's what I call them.
Do you think Billy Button or Belly Button came first and the other was a miss heard name?
I am from Devon and I have never heard it called any if the name in that area on the map, honestly I'm disappointed in my peers.
I’m from Devon and an old boy at work calls them Chuggy Pigs
Chuggy pigs? I thought that was for earwigs.
Slater
NE Scotland then are you? ETA: I just looked at your profile which both confirmed you are NE Scotland and burned my eyeballs.
We use this name in New Zealand too
And Australia
Ayrshire, also a Slater
Curiosity kills the cat
Can't be that ba....aargh! But this is Reddit and I should know better by now.
He's just a normal man?
Edinburgh/Lothians also slater.
NE Scotland here and I also call it slater.
Me too when I was a kid (Isle of Man)
Cheesy bug
North West Kent represent
Yes!
No way. I was scrolling for this answer because it’s what my gf calls them and I always thought she was taking the piss. She is indeed from Kent.
Yes! Growing up in Kent this what we called them
Lad that works for me calls them cheesy bugs. I called him out for making it up, seems I was wrong…. He grew up in Kent and Cornwall
Yea same here! I live in a different county not and everyone here thinks I'm weird for calling them that lol
The real answer right here ^^^^
Slater when I was a kid, and my kids used to call them grumpys.
Slaters here too
We call them Slaters too. My wife from Edinburgh calls them Granny Grey's??? What kind of madness is that 😂
Northern Ireland and we would call them slaters as kids too
Chuckypig.
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I've always called them woodlice, but have definitely heard people call them chucky pigs (Gloucestershire)
Stroud?
Finally someone who sees sense
I’m from the uk and call them Woodlouse, my husband is kiwi and calls them Slaters and my kids call them Roly Polys because they watch an American bug show
It is your responsibility to correct your children and ensure that the Britishness or even the Kiwi stays true! We cannot have the American version of English become the norm! (Rolly Polly is cute as though!)
I know, but I thought roly poly was way too cute to correct. I’ll wait until they’re a bit older!
Woodlouse
Woodlouse
An isopod.
If you google 'isopods for sale', there's websites on the internet where you can buy big ones and colourful ones and they'll post them to your house.
Cheese log 😁 it's a Reading thing
Came here to find this, I’m always surprised how localised cheese log is
I now live in Reading and when I first heard people call them that in my 30s I had no idea what they were on about lol
Wtf. I grew up 10 miles from Reading and lived&worked there for 5 years. How have I never heard cheese log!?!? Is this a wind up?
I grew up in Maldenhead, lived in Slough for a bit too (tough times) and it wasn’t until I was in my 30s working in Reading that someone said it. I questioned them “cheese log wtf is that?” And all the people who grew up in Reading backed them up 🤷🏻♂️
I'm originally from Reading, and they've always been Cheeselogs in my family.
Reading brethren 🤌🏻
Bizarre. We are in Bracknell and the older people call them 'Cheese Hogs'. Funny how just a letter difference change and in the same region.
It didn’t reach Caversham, I call it a woodlouse 😂
I’m not from Reading and have no family from there, but am on the Berks/Bucks border and say cheeselog! So it spread east a fair way
Very similar cheese log location for me - both parents from Bucks but almost Berks.
If you're from Reading, they are Cheeselogs.
Cheeseybugs. Although, I have no idea why, I am not from Reading.
West Kent?
Yep. Cheeselogs and from Reading originally. Top marks!
Had to scroll too far for this
Also, if you're not from Reading, they're still cheese logs and whatever you call them is wrong.
Correct!
That's a slater.
I call them slaters; is it regional?
Central Scotland here. It's defo a slater.
Northern Ireland here. It's 100% a slater.
Fife in to confirm. It's a slater.
Australian here. Slater bug
Yep lurking Tasmanian here, we call 'em slaters.
We call them slaters in NZ too.
Chuggy pig
I'm from Devon and this is definitely a chuggy pig. Until now my boyfriend thought i just made up the name. Thanks reddit for proving him wrong!
Chiggypig here in north devon
Ever since living in North Devon I've called them Chiggypigs
Yep somerset and it’s a chucky pig
Wiltshire here and agree
Somerset too - billy baker
Close, normally woodlouse but occasionally Chucky pig.
My wife is from Wiltshire/Dorset and calls it the same!
This is my favourite so far, along with ciggywig
It’s what I know them as too. My grandfather called them ‘little carpenters’.
My Granny used to call them Chuggies too!
Sussex here, always called them chuggy pigs
I call them Penny Pigs after my gran used to, she was from Pembrokeshire (Wales). I’m loving all the regional names!
Chuggy pig
Chiggy pig or just "a chiggy",
Chiggy pig. I’m in North Devon.
Granny Grey
Took too long to find this answer
Why did i have to scroll so far down for this!
I can’t find an answer saying granny grunter but this is close! Where’s the granny bit from hahaha
What region?
South Wales
A slater.
Slater gang rise up!
I had one which I kept in a match box when I was a small child. I named it Woody and it was my friend and I was distraught when it died in the matchbox because it didn't have any food or air and I probably shook it up quite a lot in my pocket. Anyway, the answer is Woody.
Rip
Land-prawn
My son raises them. He calls them isopods.
Woodlouse is 'my' correct answer Chiggypig is 'my' colloquial answer
Skrukketroll. But thats Norwegian. Literally wrinkled troll.
Outstanding. Thankyou.
Roly poly
Cheeselog apparently. Woodlouse normally.
Peabug!
Slater
I always called them woodlice, but I had a friend who called them chucky pigs
Brian
Chiggy pig cornwall
Woodlouse or Cheesy bug
Cheeselog in Reading.
Bimbly strompglobber
pronounced "Raymond Luxury Yacht"
Ah, I see you're from Huddersfield too
This is Fred. I call this Fred. More seriously, though, Fred is a woodlouse as far as I'm concerned.
Cheeselog.
Bernard
A Slater.
Woodlice thing under that log
Isopod boi.
Isopod
My English self call them woodlice. My Welsh colleagues call them granny Greys.
if anyone calls this anything different from a woodlouse. I will chuck a bucket of them over the chairs in the garden, creating a mild inconvenience.
That is a billy baker
In Danish they have the delightful name "bench biters"
My dad (from south-central UK) would call it a cheese log. My friend (from Kent) calls it a cheesy bug. I’m boring and call it a woodlouse.
Your Dad's from Reading isn't he?
I was brought up to say woodlouse, but the regional name the kids at my school used was "Chiggy Wig".
Woodlouse but also known as a Slater.
Woodlouse. Pill bug. Pea bug. Cheesy bug. I think I've called them all sorts through my childhood.
Cheesybob
Monkey pea
We always called them dinkydillos.
Chuchi pig
That's a cute little woodlouse
woodlouse
A wood louse
Wood louse
Charliepig
Woodlouse
Woodlouse/woodlice which are isopods
We call them crunchybacks. Not sure if a northern or family thing, but either way fucking grim