I read somewhere a while back that the nicknames for these creatures is highly regional, and it seemed to pan out when their data showed that the regions which used the two names I know them by are the same ones that my family comes from.

Doodle-bug or roly-poly, btw.

We called them slaters.

Autocorrect turned that into skaters and I got a hilarious image in my head.

I grew up calling them sow bugs, and I've learned this was weird because I've never met anyone else who called them that!

Are you from Canada by any chance? Ive only heard other Canadians use Roly-Poly for these little guys.

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Roly-poly/pillbug vs isopod?

I thought they were the same thing, but pill bugs always look bland while isopods have fancy breeds

I wasn't able to find an original, but I would assume it was either talking about the fact that they're crustations and not bugs, or talking about the different regional names for them (roly poly, pill bug, potato bug, etc)

A couple months ago I had an absolute infestation of these after a rainy week, literally probably cleaned up over a hundred of their carcasses from inside my home.

...even powerhug?..