What do you call wood lice?

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There was an article in The Times today talking about the different regional names for wood lice. It said that they call them Cheesy bugs in Surrey. Now I always thought that was a very North Kent name for them and it totally threw me that other places call them that. So What do you call them and where are you from?

Chicky pig, I grew up in north Devon but I now live in Hampshire and no ones knows what I mean if it call them that (not that it comes up in conversation often 😆)

Woodlice. (Hampshire & Yorkshire) I had no idea there were other names. Now I come to think about it, I've not seen one for years. Where have they all gone?

dd calls them Wood Slice

Woodlice

My kids call them roll ups and wheely bugs

Chuggy pigs. Devon.

Me, Woodlice, DH (London/Essex) pillbugs

Have heard of them being called monkey peas but we've always called them woodlice (SE Kent)

Leather jackets - Midlands

slaters -Edinburgh

Wood lice! Wales. My friend from the West Country calls them Roly pollies 🤣

We called them "gramfer crawlers" where I grew up in Somerset. I'm quite fascinated by all the Somerset variations on the "gramfer" theme, I had no idea there were so many!

Cheesy bugs. Surrey

Wood lice - grew up in south east

Where I currently live in the south west they’re either billy bakers or chicky pigs.

@Queenoftheashes

Cheeselogs (Reading)

Yep and also from Reading.

@ACPC

Slaters, South Lanarkshire. I was an adult before I knew their actual name

Same here! Central Belt/Edinburgh.

Grammersoles (unsure of spelling!!) here in Cornwall. Although I think it's dying out as a word

@Lozza70

Slaters Northern Ireland

Same here

Woodlouse, I moved to Stroud as a young teen and everyone calls them Chucky pigs here.

Ear Wigs (Ireland)

If you call these earwigs

What do you call these?

With picture

Slaters - New Zealand

Wood pigs (north east)

@LubaLuca awww I'm so pleased 😄