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[โ€“] swizzlestick@lemmy.zip 34 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Woodlice are my favourite for this. From the wiki:

Common names include:

  • armadillo bug
  • boat-builder (Newfoundland, Canada)
  • butcher boy or butchy boy (Australia, mostly around Melbourne)
  • carpenter or cafner (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
  • cheeselog (Reading, England)
  • cheesy bobs (Guildford, England)
  • cheesy bug (North West Kent, Gravesend, England)
  • chiggy pig (Devon, England)
  • chisel pig
  • chucky pig (Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, England)
  • doodlebug (also used for the larva of an antlion and for the cockchafer)
  • fat pig (Ireland)
  • gramersow (Cornwall, England)
  • hog-louse
  • millipedus
  • QuaQua regional to Beddau and Keppoch Street Roath
  • mochyn coed ('tree pig'), pryf lludw ('ash bug'), granny grey in Wales
  • pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium)
  • potato bug
  • roll up bug
  • roly-poly
  • slater (Scotland, Ulster, New Zealand and Australia)
  • sow bug
  • woodbunter
  • wood bug (British Columbia, Canada)