#1-Sow Bugs
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.
pill bugs
I live in Illinois and my whole class calls them roly-polies. I hunt for them with my friends at recess and put them in a Fiji water bottle.
I hope you let them go…
I call them roly-poly’s and used to hunt for them with my little sister….
i call them “Wood Louse/lice” cuz thats what Illinois residents call them, I guess.
Yep…I’ve heard that.
Actually, Cheesie. I’m pretty sure that sow bugs and pill bugs are two different types of isopods!
I don’t think they are. I think they are just different names for the same isopod.
I know sherman is another name for sow bugs
“Sherman”? You know the first name of the bug?
i call them “ant n shell”
I call them armabugos
Roly polys
I call them yuck-a-roos.
I never heard of that name before.
I have 2 names for them: Ball bugs and Shell bugs.
I call them pill bugs.
another name is wood bug. thats what i call them.
Hi Cheesie! you should look at this website. It’s about dollar bills. http://www.wheresgeorge.com/report.php?key=0a549c6b77cc95679cbbd517a34bb721848fe3bee8b2d4c6
Very cool site, Allison. I told my Granpa and he marked up lots of dollar bills and logged them onto wheresgeorge.com. He likes doing it. Thanks.
another name is armadillidium vulgare
I had NO idea how many names for sowbugs there are, here are a handful I found: Boat Builder, Carpenter, Cafner, Doodlebug, Roll Up Bug, Chuggypig, Chucky Pig, and 2 names I think you will enjoy, Cheeselog and Cheesy bug. (Nice job on your report! And your teacher let you bring to class a box of Sow Bugs?!?!?!)
And if you want to see white sow bugs, look at dwarf white sow bugs.
Wow, Elena! You did a lot of good research. (And I love the Cheesie ones.)
Wow.
another name for them is a scud.
🙂
I call sow bugs ‘roly- polys’
We always called them potato bugs. My fear and/or revulsion at any particular kind of crawly thing is usually in direct proportion to the number of legs it has. Anything with 4 to 6 legs, common bug spray will do. Up to 8 legs, I need hairspray so that I don’t have to remove the corpse until it’s safely encased in shellac. Regardless of the size of the bug, if it has over 10 legs, I require an army boot, two clothes pins, and a complex system of weights and pulleys.
Haha! You are hysterical. My mom hates crawlies, too. But she won’t kill them. She just screams for Dad.
i call them bugs