Ahh, gotcha. It's a good movie. Kinda sad looking back. They played it in schools in the '90s and drilled the message in that we were already doing clear cutting of forests without "The Leveler." This was back when they "cared about global warming, and we will have to do something about it soon." Rather than just claiming it doesn't exist.
Robin Williams played Batty Coda, so I remember the character fondly.
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.
They excrete ammonia through their exoskeleton because they don't actually pee! I've only noticed a smell from them when they're in large groups. They may be a bit smelly, and a lot of people mislabel them as insects, but they're actually terrestrial isopods and are related to crabs and shrimps!
Certain ants are pretty distinct. Thatch ants spray formic acid as a defense, and will have a sour smell (and taste, or so I've been told). Odoriferous house ants are named so for obvious reason, and smell (to me) like pen ink. Assuming they taste terrible, but I dunno anyone who's tasted one.
Also, for what it's worth, my entomologist father refers to the thread's subject as "sow bugs", so that's how I know them, but pill bugs and rolly polly are common here.
That's very interesting. I can't smell ants at all and [threads subject] smell like dirt to me (I assume because they live in dirt)
Thanks for explaining!
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
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.
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Corno@lemm.ee · 39 pts · 1y
voracitude@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
Honytawk@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 1y
They piss in our beds! grrr
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 1y
"I swear, it was these bugs!"
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y
https://thimsternisse.com/healing-magic/
Apparently they fed them to kids as a cure for wetting the bed.
voracitude@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 1y
i think they might have pissed in some beds
brb@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Pissebed
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz · 38 pts · 1y
What's with all these weird names for a pill bug.
ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one · 76 pts · 1y
It's called a roly-poly and I will tolerate no disagreement, good day to you
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 1y
They roly and they poly. No better names exist.
SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 1y
I would've been with you until I saw Grumper Pig.
lemmyng@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 1y
I'll accept carpet shrimp.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
aww
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Re: your username: Is a Replicant Batty Coda just a normal Batty Coda? He's already a cyborg with crappy/ intermittent reception.
ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one · 2 pts · 1y
I had to look that up lol, I've never seen Fern Gully. The username is a reference to Roy Batty, the character from Blade Runner.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Ahh, gotcha. It's a good movie. Kinda sad looking back. They played it in schools in the '90s and drilled the message in that we were already doing clear cutting of forests without "The Leveler." This was back when they "cared about global warming, and we will have to do something about it soon." Rather than just claiming it doesn't exist.
Robin Williams played Batty Coda, so I remember the character fondly.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
nuh-uh
JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Ye-ah
smeg@feddit.uk · 15 pts · 1y
This is the first time I've heard anyone call them anything other than a woodlouse
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz · 14 pts · 1y
You must be referring to the Woodlouse Hunter which hunts... *checks notes ...Granny Grunters.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 7 pts · 1y
I only ever called them woodlouses when I learned that name as a teenager because everyone here always called them "roly-polies" or "potato bugs."
smeg@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 1y
Roly polies does sound adorable, I'll give you that
someacnt_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Do you mean the bean bug?
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
No, I mean a sow bug.
protist@mander.xyz · 30 pts · 1y
Their family name is Armadillidae (arm-a-dill-a-dee) which also just sounds silly
Metostopholes@midwest.social · 21 pts · 1y
Aww, tiny armadillos!
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 1y
🙃
TheEEEdiot@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 1y
It's a Roly Poly btw.
Heavybell@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y
Probably the cutest insect, and they do us no harm. Unshocking they have a collection of amusing names.
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 1y
Apparently, they're not actually insects, but rather crustaceans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlouse
ThoGot@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y
Crustaceans are basically ocean insects, fite me
Default_Defect@midwest.social · 2 pts · 1y
not basically at all, they just are
Heavybell@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
That's actually not shocking either! Nice, thanks for the info :)
OlPatchy2Eyes@slrpnk.net · 19 pts · 1y
It's because they roll up into a cute little ball and it tickles us in a way nothing else does
Fjern@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
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
tetris11@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 1y
note to self: don't buy coffee in Norway
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 1y
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.
Corno@lemm.ee · 22 pts · 1y
They excrete ammonia through their exoskeleton because they don't actually pee! I've only noticed a smell from them when they're in large groups. They may be a bit smelly, and a lot of people mislabel them as insects, but they're actually terrestrial isopods and are related to crabs and shrimps!
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
Welp, that explains why the Netherlands calls these bugs "bedpissers"
Glimpythegoblin@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
Yeah they smell like stinky wood/almonds to me.
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 1y
Isn't almonds also the scent reported by those genetically-equipped to smell cyanide?
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
Not me! Do you smell ants? I think it’s a genetic trait.
WhipperSnapper@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 1y
Certain ants are pretty distinct. Thatch ants spray formic acid as a defense, and will have a sour smell (and taste, or so I've been told). Odoriferous house ants are named so for obvious reason, and smell (to me) like pen ink. Assuming they taste terrible, but I dunno anyone who's tasted one.
Also, for what it's worth, my entomologist father refers to the thread's subject as "sow bugs", so that's how I know them, but pill bugs and rolly polly are common here.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
That's very interesting. I can't smell ants at all and [threads subject] smell like dirt to me (I assume because they live in dirt)
Thanks for explaining!
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y
I’ve never noticed an ant smell, if I had to guess I’d assume it’s some different chemical I’m picking up on from the pill bugs.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
I think so! I love them but I haven’t smelled them. What’s your stance on cilantro? I love genetic smell/taste traits.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y
I’m a soap-taster, unfortunately, but it smells really good to me! I just wish it tasted like it smelled
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
I don’t think it is, but I wonder if it’s related?! Neat!
I wish it tasted to you like it does to me :c I LOVE cilantro!
cholesterol@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Doesn't ring a bell. Earwigs have a distinct smell, though.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Nice-o-pod
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
They’re good lil guys
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
DOODLE BUGS!
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
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.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
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.
Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y
Me in Australia: Now that's a real Butchy boy.
psud@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 1y
Me in Australia: that's a slater
TastyWheat@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Forbidden boba
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
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
ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y
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.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
hey Smooth Randy
DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
It does have a hard back
EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I call them isopods but that's only because I started keeping them as pets Rn I have some dairy cow isopods
DampCanary@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
They're proper pokemons, they have shiny version
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Nounka@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
It is called a pissebed in Dutch...
Yet where i live we call them verkskes ( little piggies )
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 1y