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Short Stuff: Roly Poly...Bugs?

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.676.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Roly Poly bugs go by many names. They look like tiny armadillos. They're great for your garden. And they're crustaceans. Yeah, you read that right.

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0:34.0

Hey and welcome to the Short Stuff.

0:39.0

I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too, and it's short stuff.

0:42.8

C cute little bug addition.

0:45.8

That's right, we're talking about pill bugs or potato bugs or woodlice.

0:50.4

What?

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Or for our English friends, Chicky pigs, Penny Sows, or cheesy bugs?

0:56.2

I have no idea what we're talking about, Chuck.

0:58.4

We're talking about here in the American South at least, Rowley Polies.

1:01.9

Oh, Rowley Polies. Oh, Rowley Polies.

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Is that what you called them?

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Yeah, that's what I've always called them.

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It's funny, I was trying to look up a map of their range

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in the United States, and all I could find was dialect maps of what people called

1:14.8

them around the United States so I have no idea what their actual range is but I

1:18.4

can tell you in the South everybody calls them Rolipolies.

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