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What do you call wood lice?

276 replies

toots111 · 02/07/2021 20:38

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?

OP posts:
Floralnomad · 02/07/2021 20:45

Cheesy bugs ( Kent) .

Bleddyansum · 02/07/2021 20:46

Chiggy pigs

MrsHamlet · 02/07/2021 20:46

@Graymare

Chucky pigs. Originally from Gloucestershire.
I was going to say that :)
MistyFrequencies · 02/07/2021 20:46

Slaters. New Zealand...

NerdyBird · 02/07/2021 20:46

Chiggy pigs

HunkyPunk · 02/07/2021 20:47

Wood lice (South/SW)

LunaDeet · 02/07/2021 20:48

Chookie Pigs

Watwing · 02/07/2021 20:49

Chuggypigs

bennyjet · 02/07/2021 20:50

Chooky pigs south west

TheCanyon · 02/07/2021 20:52

Slaters here too, scottish borders.

HumbugWhale · 02/07/2021 20:52

Wood lice, Birmingham.

Funatlast · 02/07/2021 20:52

Grampy (South Wales)

LazyDoll · 02/07/2021 20:52

Woody mice Grin

dementedpixie · 02/07/2021 20:53

@GiveMummyTheWhizzer

Eeery wigs.

I've no idea why. Oxfordshire roots.

Eery wigs are a different creature with a forked tail
Original poster
toots111 · 02/07/2021 20:56

I just don’t believe people in Surrey call them cheesy bugs. That map must be wrong! Anyone in Surrey reading?

OP posts:
FuckUcuntychops · 02/07/2021 20:57

Wood louse, London.

WhiskersPete · 02/07/2021 20:57

Earth's only terrestrial crustacean!

TheMostHappy · 02/07/2021 20:58

Cheeselog - Thames valley

Inthesameboatatmo · 02/07/2021 20:58

Wood louse, south east.

ScrummyDiva2 · 02/07/2021 20:58

Slaters- N.Ireland

IsadoraQuagmire · 02/07/2021 20:58

Wood lice! (London)

Inthesameboatatmo · 02/07/2021 20:59

@toots111.
I'm in Surrey and have never ever heard this ,lived here since birth.

whataboutthesalmonella · 02/07/2021 20:59

@Watwing

Chuggypigs
Also Chuggy Pigs. London/Cotswolds
GreenPlantPot · 02/07/2021 21:00

Baby Armidillos here too - but I think that might be due to a programme we watched on tv as kids?

Boatsnack3 · 02/07/2021 21:01

Another "slaters" post from someone living on the east coast but comes from the west coast.

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