@joyousjoyness@mastodon.social
2026-07-31 02:00 UTC
Replies (6)
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@aisling@critters.gay 2026-07-31 02:03
@joyousjoyness@mastodon.social pill bugs, but also, confusingly, potato bugs, which i later learned is a name that applies to a completely different creature with six legs
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@michaelgemar@cosocial.ca 2026-07-31 02:03
@joyousjoyness@mastodon.social Pill bugs (at least in Texas). And "Armadillidiidae" has way too many i's and l's.
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@log@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-07-31 02:30
@joyousjoyness@mastodon.social Pill bugs 'round these parts.
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@trinsec@trinsec.org 2026-07-31 05:02
@joyousjoyness@mastodon.social Here we call them 'pissebedden', which translates literally to 'piss beds'. I have no idea how we got to this name!
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@goaty@meow.social 2026-07-31 07:31
@joyousjoyness@mastodon.social i used to call em pill bugs but these days i just say isopods
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@MadamTegner@pixelfed.social 2026-07-31 17:39
In Danish: Bænkebider. Which means "Biter of benches" if you want to be literally. I guess the like to eat old wooden benches?