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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

Is both roly and poly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That’s definitely a bug, just not an insect

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Technically not a ‘bug’ but ok.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I could see it both ways. Crustaceans are arthropods and this resembles a true bug about as much as a spider does, but I’ll give you that crustaceans are probably not top on people’s list of “looks like a bug.”

I lean towards using it for most kinds of “small invertebrate pest,” because those are the factors about bugs that I care about. Even a tiny, annoying hummingbird would only seem like a bug to me until I looked at it, but something with chitin almost always feels like it counts

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Am I missing the point by saying that's not a potato bug? Not even sure it's a pillbug, but maybe is. Looks like a sowbug.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That there's your standard issue roly-poly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Also called a pillbug. Okay, I'll defer to you - maybe sowbug lol a little flatter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

We call them slaters, or slater beetles in Aus

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It is a pill though.

Pops one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

makes you taste colors

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's definitely a bug. Bug isn't a taxonomic term.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I believe it is. A bug is a range of insects with piercing mouthparts. Like sap-sucking guys, or assassin bugs. I don’t think mosquitoes count though. I could be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Bug is a taxonomic term? Fucking taxonomists. Taxonomy is a garbage pseudoscience that takes our living natural language and turns it into a dead, useless thing like their pinned up butterflies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

"You know what, fuck you, taxonomy."

Un-deads your butterflies

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think I saw another post where it's good at heavy metal spoil extraction.

Is it the same type of creature?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Yep!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Land Crustacean

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

It's an isopod!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

We should call them prawntatoes instead