What's with all these weird names for a pill bug.

Their family name is Armadillidae (arm-a-dill-a-dee) which also just sounds silly

It's a Roly Poly btw.

Probably the cutest insect, and they do us no harm. Unshocking they have a collection of amusing names.

It's because they roll up into a cute little ball and it tickles us in a way nothing else does

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

This is a weird question but everyone else could smell these, right? Like a weird bitter, musty smell. That post about people smelling ants a while back made me wonder what other bugs not all people smell.

DOODLE BUGS!

Nice-o-pod

Interesting. Where I live this is what we call a potato bug

Me in Australia: Now that's a real Butchy boy.

Forbidden boba

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.

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

I mean I have a pair of aquatic sowbugs I've been keeping in an empty yogurt cup. They look like regular sowbugs but they're underwater, hence aquatic sowbug.