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?

Granny bugs - North West

mochyn coed in Wales
(It means wood pig).

Chuggy bugs. Or woodlice. (Midlands)

Slaters (East of Scotland)

Slaters (Perthshire)

I call them Wilbers. That's what my Nan told me they were when I was little and she didn't know the name of them

@Chesneyhawkes1

I call them Wilbers. That's what my Nan told me they were when I was little and she didn't know the name of them

I've just had a flashback to my grandad showing me the Wilbers in his garden 🥰

I'd totally forgotten about that, thank you.

Pigs - Lincolnshire, not heard it used since I was a child though!

@CCSS15

I call them woodlice but growing up were cheesybobs - I thought it was a norfolk thing but apparently its from Guildford, Surrey

I'm from Guildford. Always known them as cheesy bobs. I thought that's what everyone called then until I got strange looks when talking about them.

Annie Wiggles - my friend's name for them, she's from north Suffolk.

Billy Buttons

(I wasn't from the Billy Button area on the map but my dm was so I guess that's where I learnt it from )

Me, posh Hampshire, wood louse. My mum, north Devon, sowpig.

I know which I love!!

Woodlice (Herts).

Earwigs, now…my mum (North East) calls them “twitchybells” which I think is a splendid name for them.

Wood lice, I've never heard any other name for them until now! North East

Grampy yoodah. Or it might have been grampy doodah, can't remember. This is what people called them when I was growing up in Somerset.

Chiggy wig

Slaters. Horrible things

The one in my hallway is called Hamish

Chucky pigs, but nowhere near Gloucestershire.

I call them woodlice even though my mum calls them chucky pigs

@Classica

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I guess that article must not think we have them in Cumbria then

We do, and they're called wood bugs or wood louse

My mum always called them Leather Jackets (Leicestershire), my DH and I call them Woody Woodpigs (Nottinghamshire)

Charlie bugs, south London.

Woodlice...but a couple of weeks my kids found some and without thinking I immediately said "they taste of cheese" and then couldn't tell them how I knew!!! I grew up in Kent so this answers my confusion!!!

Wood Lice (Yorkshire)

Fucking hate the motherfuckers