Sow bugs are my favorite “insects,” mainly because they are not insects. They are actually crustaceans, like lobster and shrimp. Here’s what they look like, just in case you don’t know what a sow bug is.
Sow bug is the name I learned, but in science we learned there lots of other names for the same non-insect: roly-poly, pill bug, woodlouse, etc. If you have other names or know something really interesting about them, please comment below.
I did a report on sow bugs. Here it is.
Sow bugs and pillbugs (roly-polys) are actually different species. Sow bugs can’t curl up and the edge of their “armor” is shaped differently. (Along with some other differences.)
That is really fascinating. I tried to find something on the web to support what you said, but I can’t Please write back and tell me how you learned this!!
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To Steve Cotler
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I call them potato bugs.
I call them
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I think you must have sow bugs inside your keyboard.
I call them Potato bugs. My brother and his friend splits them in half and you can see the guts. It is VERY disgusting!! But I love them i hold them and they crawl on you. They are 99.9% harmless.
I call them cute! Also when my dad was a kid he called them Potato Bugs and my sister stuck one up her nose when she was three.
Ugh! Nose bugs. Ugh!
We call them Potato Bugs but a good name for them would be: Crumb Armadillos or Brown Peas. I ate one once when I was 2 years old.
You ate one?! EW!
Armadillo bugs is what my family calls them
They do look like little armadillos!
I got a name you’ll like.(suspense) CHEESELOG (no joke)
I like it! But what’s it for? Is it your nickname? Or is it this:
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I call them Doodle bugs.
i call them PATATO bugs. PATATOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS
Yep.Lots of people call them that.
I call them edible bugs:)
No way! Please don’t.
Pillbug or rolly pollies
I call them crawling bug’s
I call them potato bugs. :3
I call them rolly pillies
Rolly polly plus pill bug
Cheesie I have a question for ya for homework I have to adopt a macro invertebrate but I don’t know the life cycle of a pillbug or Sowbug
Signed,
Nathan
I don’t remember what their life cycle is, but I did look it up when I wrote about them, so I know there is a lot of info online. Good luck.
I call it roly poly and pill bugs too!
Idk. I call sow bugs roly poly and doodle bugs. (my mom calls them that too. She’s from Texas.)
Yep. Lots of people call them that.
You could call them tiny little rolly thingys
You could…couldn’t you!
I call them “mini armadillos”.
I call them scaled bugs
Good name!
There also called rollypollys.
We learned in science that they are also called isopods!
Yep, that’s right.
isopods are also one!!!
Potato bugs.
i actually call them pill bugs
I like to collect rolly pollies. I have a vacuum catcher that allows me to catch them. We just finished your first book. My mom got it from her school…you signed it for us! I really liked your book. It was totally awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks, Jake!
Once when the first time I saw a sow bug, I thought it was a rock because it was in a rough ball shape so I picked it up and it came out its shell and I got so scared, I almost threw it! Total not lie[of course I lied a little bit]!
Good story.
I call them rollie-pollies.
Yep, lots of kids do.
That’s what I call them
I call them scaredy bugs, because they curl up and get scared….
Haha! That’s really clever.
I made this up,but its called ball bugs
Good imagination.
In my state we call them rolly bugs
Yep. I’ve heard that.
Also tomato bugs
Really? I asked my Granpa, and he said tomato bugs are big and green.
People call them roli-polies but some people call them bettles.
I learned they are not actually beetles. They are isopods.
I call them a tiny bug