• WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    20·
    2 months ago

    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.

      • NielsBohron@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        2 months ago

        In Nor Cal where I grew up, potato bugs are a totally different bug that looks like a cockroach fucked a grasshopper.

        edit: Apparently their real name is a “Jerusalem cricket” and they will bite the shit out of you if you let them.

          • MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            2 months ago

            We have a similar bug here called a cave cricket! They look similar but cave crickets are harmless lol

            • Scubus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              2 months ago

              Not venomous or anything, but if it’s the same cave cricket or “spider cricket” we have here then they will also bite the shit out of you.

              • MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                2 months ago

                The ones we have here can’t bite anything. If they get scared their only defense mechanism is to jump straight at the threat and hope to scare it away lol

          • NielsBohron@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            Yeah, I have a deep-seated irrational fear of bugs large enough to “pop” when you step on them, and I think it stems from growing up around these monstrosities. They’re not as bad as bugs in a lot of places, but goddamn does it hurt to get bit by them, especially as a child.