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?

Wood louse /lice
South

Billy buttons

Roly poly

Cheesy bugs. Surrey (originally).

Cudgy pigs but I think my mum might have made that up

Slaters - also New Zealand but with Scottish ancestry

Slaters and I'm in Surrey,

Never ever heard Cheesybugs in all my 50 plus years.

I always wondered if Slaters was a made up name I'm our family as I didn't know anyone else who called them that, but my Granny was from Aberdeen, so MN has just explained that one for me!!

Wood bugs. Western Canada.

@Chemenger

With picture

Without doubt, that is an earwig. I see almost none now, but as a child they used to fall out of ears of corn when you shucked them, or horror of horrors out of you underpants (pants) when they came off the line. The things of shrieks and no ghtmares

Nightmares. Sigh.

Gramfer gravies here....Somerset.

Slaters:. Live in NZ and I have Scottish/English ancestry.

Wood lice.

What do they have to do with cheese?

When I was a kid we called them earwigs, but now call them woodlice.

Cheesy bobs in Guildford or cheesy bugs

Earwigs are not woodlice!

Woodlice or pigs. East Midlands.

My Granny also used to call earwigs Horny Gollochs! Anyone else remember this?

Boringly, woodlice. Buckinghamshire (parents from Worcestershire and Glasgow if that makes a difference.)

Earwigs are a different thing though!

Wood lice. London.

Slaters
South West Scotland

Piggies!

Woodlice, cheesy bugs here are those bright green bugs that stink if you touch them.

chucky pigs ( south wales )

Plain boring old 'wood lice' for me

Slater’s - Australia