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If you're like me, you probably remember as a child picking up those little gray bugs with lots of legs and watching them roll into a ball. Roli-pollies, right? Yeah, yeah, that's what I called them. But the funny thing is that one of our listeners,

Lindsay Klaus, says she grew up calling them

bowling ball bugs.

Bowling ball bugs.

Isn't that great?

That's a natural. But the funny thing is that one of our listeners, Lindsay Klaus, says she grew up calling the bowling ball bugs.

Bowling ball bugs. Isn't that great? That's a natural word, right? Of course. It is. But she thought that maybe her father made that up because that was the only place that she'd ever heard it. So like anybody with a language question, Lindsay went to our Facebook page and asked what other names people use for these

bugs.

And boy, did she get an earful. Who knew there were so many names for those little creatures, Grant? I had no idea. I've never heard of sow bug, but Dirk says that they called them that in California, S-O-W. Yeah. They have something to do with pigs? I don't know. I don't know. And a fellow calling himself, Oso-Woman,

Oso says that he calls them Dillo seeds,

which I guess is short for armadillo, right?

Oh, that would make sense.

That would make sense because the scientific name for these little creatures is armadility vulgaris.

Because they look like tiny armadillos.

Yeah, but we also saw the names wood lice and basketball bug and chiggy pig.

They're just so many names for that.

Pillbug, let's not forget that.

Let's not forget pill bug.

Oh, there was such a long list of them.

And Grant, I tell you, I did not know until after we were talking about this on the Facebook page that there is a scientific word for what those little bugs do when they roll up.

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