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What do you call wood lice?

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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:
Nobranothanks · 02/07/2021 21:21

Cheesy bug or a Granfer

The first is what everyone round here (mid Kent) calls them; the second is what my mum taught me (Wiltshire)

PattyPan · 02/07/2021 21:21

@LepersofRuggedIsland

Cheeselogs though??! 🤣🤣🤣
I’ve always figured they enjoy eating logs the way people enjoy eating cheese?
jaminthemiddle · 02/07/2021 21:22

Cheeselogs here too! South east.

HoobleDooble · 02/07/2021 21:23

Wood Pigs ... my DH, East Midlands

Woodlice ... just about everyone else I know 😁

RaraRachael · 02/07/2021 21:23

Slaters - NE Scotland

I had no idea what my English MiL meant by an earwig. To me that was a forkie gollach or just gollach Grin

FannagBeg · 02/07/2021 21:23

No-one else from the Isle of Man yet?!

I give you .... ....

Parson's Pigs

HoobleDooble · 02/07/2021 21:24

@Maggiesfarm

Wood lice. I suppose if I had them I could call them by name individually, eg Gerald and Carol.
😂😂😂
TenPenceMix · 02/07/2021 21:25

Granny Slaters

SageRosemary · 02/07/2021 21:25

Fat Pigs (Ireland)

LemonRoses · 02/07/2021 21:25

Monkey peas.

Juice9000 · 02/07/2021 21:27

Love these dialect words, never heard of most of them

goingcovidcrazy · 02/07/2021 21:27

Slater beetle - northumberland.

MaddeningtheUnhelpful · 02/07/2021 21:27

Personally, I don't like to stereotype them so I take time to choose their names based on their personalities. My son bought in Woody and Brian to play today.
On a serious note, we call them Woodlice in the South East

FreezerBird · 02/07/2021 21:29

For some reason, names for woodlice seem to have survived in dialect when we've lost so many other words. Some dialect is incredibly place-specific.

Called them daddy gramfers growing up but in the next village they were grampy grovers. Just a couple of miles up the road (Somerset).

feliciabirthgiver · 02/07/2021 21:30

Yes @LemonRoses they are monkey peas!

LepersofRuggedIsland · 02/07/2021 21:31

“I’ve always figured they enjoy eating logs the way people enjoy eating cheese.”

Genius. I love it 😂😂😂

YouLookSoCool · 02/07/2021 21:32

Woodlice or slaters (from North west but my dad was from Scotland so I wonder if that's where I got slaters from)

LactoseTheIntolerant · 02/07/2021 21:32

I'm in Surrey and call them woodlice, never heard of the other names before this thread but I think they're bloody brilliant, baby armadillo is genius!

BillywigSting · 02/07/2021 21:33

Woodlouse or roly poly bug (Liverpool)

minniebin · 02/07/2021 21:34

Woodlouse/lice in London

BillywigSting · 02/07/2021 21:34

Also chiggy pigs (Co wicklow Ireland)

Judystilldreamsofhorses · 02/07/2021 21:34

Slaters - Scotland.

topcat2014 · 02/07/2021 21:34

Chucky pigs (glos)

minniebin · 02/07/2021 21:35

I had no idea they had other names!

KimmyAndMe · 02/07/2021 21:35

S Wales. Granny Greys

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