Man, what the fuck did the roly polys do the the Netherlands?!
i think they might have pissed in some beds
They piss in our beds! grrr
“I swear, it was these bugs!”
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Apparently they fed them to kids as a cure for wetting the bed.
Yeah fair, I’d have a bit of anger too if I’d been force-fed woodlice as a child.
Pissebed
It’s a Roly Poly btw.
It’s because they roll up into a cute little ball and it tickles us in a way nothing else does
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!
Welp, that explains why the Netherlands calls these bugs “bedpissers”
Yeah they smell like stinky wood/almonds to me.
stinky wood/almonds
Isn’t almonds also the scent reported by those genetically-equipped to smell cyanide?
Not me! Do you smell ants? I think it’s a genetic trait.
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!
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.
I think so! I love them but I haven’t smelled them. What’s your stance on cilantro? I love genetic smell/taste traits.
I’m a soap-taster, unfortunately, but it smells really good to me! I just wish it tasted like it smelled
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!
Doesn’t ring a bell. Earwigs have a distinct smell, though.
Me in Australia: Now that’s a real Butchy boy.
Me in Australia: that’s a slater
DOODLE BUGS!
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.
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.
It is called a pissebed in Dutch…
Yet where i live we call them verkskes ( little piggies )
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.
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 30+ before I knew not everyone called them slaters
I call them isopods but that’s only because I started keeping them as pets Rn I have some dairy cow isopods
hey Smooth Randy
