German is not quite correct. We say “Kellerassel”.
Keller -> Cellar
Assel -> IsopodIn English isopods qualify as bugs
Bed pisser is just mean.
Tf is “global” supposed to mean?
“Cheesy bug” in parts of the UK? Where I grew up that’s close. They were “Cheesybobs” to everyone I knew.
The official common name for the insect, Armadillidium vulgare, in the scientific community. All the rest are colloquial names.
Roly polys or get the fk out! /s
Did the Dutch confuse them for dandelions?
There is some etymological debate on the subject. Some sources say they were ground to a paste and administered for diuretic effect, the same as the flower.
However it’s not a common bit of knowledge or myth, so some etymologists say that the weird has formed in Dutch separately to French.
I know some fancy restaurants have served them as miniature backyard shrimp.
I love these Lil dudes. I have some in the basement and I feel bad to see them scurry around to find darkness whenever a light is turned on. They are my spirit animal.
Does the pissebed eat pissenlits?
They were Potato Bugs or Ball Bugs for me as a kid, until I heard Roly-poly from a kid at summer camp.
As a Canadian : woodbug
I’m in one of the “certain regions” for carpenter.
That right there’s a Chucky Pig
The theory that children get to name these things makes sense.
I’ve lived in a few places around the UK and I have never, ever heard of a “cheesy bug”.
I always knew them as cheesybobs as a kid, and only realised they were the same thing as “wood louse” or whatever when I grew up.
