What do you call these insects?

Rosie_Scope
Rosie_Scope Posts: 9,797 Online Community Team
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What's this called?

Two woodlice on a log

Apparently there are all sorts of regional names for them and not everyone grew up calling them cheesy-bobs. Who knew?!

Did you have a name for them beyond their normal scientific name?

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  • Dynamisante
    Dynamisante Community Member Posts: 235 Contributor

    Wood lice, I have them in my house as the older bits of my house was built in the 1800, but to my grandchildren I call them ‘mini beasts’ , never ever heard them being called cheesy bobs .

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Community Member Posts: 6,489 Championing

    When I find them in a kitchen cupboard it's usually 'eurgh'!

    But I've never heard anyone call them anything other than a wood louse!

  • Carl_Scope
    Carl_Scope Posts: 329 Online Community Team

    I can't believe anyone calls them chucky pig or slater!

    They've always been 'wood louse' to me.

  • kreacher
    kreacher Community Member Posts: 698 Empowering

    wood lice

  • ChrisR777
    ChrisR777 Community Member Posts: 2,131 Championing

    Horny Gollach.

  • Carl_Scope
    Carl_Scope Posts: 329 Online Community Team

    🤣 There's no way that some of these are real, surely?

  • bennos79
    bennos79 Community Member Posts: 33 Contributor

    wood louse

  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Community Member Posts: 746 Empowering

    Hmmm, in Dutch these are called 'pissbeds.' Honestly, look them up here (in case their name is improper).

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 9,797 Online Community Team

    Astounded by the lack of cheesy bobs everywhere. To be clear, I also call them woodlice most of the time, but for some reason our family has the cheesy bob word too. Although my mum would say that the ones that are curled up are cheesybobs more than the ones that are out flat and crawling around… I don't really understand the logic. I suspect there isn't any.

    Gosh I had no idea what it was in Dutch @SmellyBin, that's so funny 😂 it's not an elegant language, is it?!

  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Community Member Posts: 746 Empowering

    Are you seriously gonna take that one thing to think we've not got an elegant language @Rosie_Scope or do you know other non-elegant Dutch expressions?!?! You're gonna make me lose sleep over this, because of course now I need to come up with fairly eloquent Dutch expressions to prove you wrong: look at the Dutch with their wooden shoes being lovely, elegant creatures 🤭

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 9,797 Online Community Team

    Just reminding myself of the word Hagelslag from the toast discussion @SmellyBin 😅 there is a certain… distinctiveness to the Dutch words I do know. The Dutch themselves I'm sure are very elegant with their lovely tulips and windmills and wooden shoes. And very tall, very elegant people, if I remember my trips to Amsterdam well 😁

  • SmellyBin
    SmellyBin Community Member Posts: 746 Empowering

    Cool! What've you been doing in Amsterdam @Rosie_Scope

  • Dynamisante
    Dynamisante Community Member Posts: 235 Contributor

    All I want to know is how to get rid of the blighters !!!!! Apparently squirt vinegar around all your skirting boards, 😂 😂 😂, my house smells like a jar of picked onions 🧅 😂

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 6,181 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    That made me laugh @Dynamisante🤣 Pickled onions🤣At least you found a way to get them out of your home🤣

    I've only ever known them as wood-louse

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 5,417 Online Community Team

    Woodlouse. They like to climb under our front door and they drive me mad! Does the vinegar actually work @Dynamisante? I need to know before I also have a house that smells of pickled onions 😂

  • Autumnleaf
    Autumnleaf Community Member Posts: 1,133 Empowering

    Woodlice are actually crustaceans not insects. related to crabs etc. I think they're quite interesting but understand not wanting them all over the home!

  • Dynamisante
    Dynamisante Community Member Posts: 235 Contributor

    @Rachel_Scope i squirted it around the skirting boards in the front room last night 😂 I don’t see any dead ones in there ! Maybe it’s the smell that keeps them away, I might put it around my doors, actually to be honest it doesn’t smell at all

  • Dynamisante
    Dynamisante Community Member Posts: 235 Contributor

    I have wooden floors so doesn’t stain or do any damage, don’t think I would be doing it if I had light carpet !

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Community Member Posts: 6,489 Championing

    I'm not convinced any of these scented repellents actually work.

    I use vinegar spray to clean windows but that doesn't seem to stop anything around them.

    Also tried a few different mint & lemon sprays around all the window and door frames to stop spiders…and within an hour watched them just walk over it again! 😅

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 6,181 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    This is a great fun fact @Autumnleaf! I can see the similarities between crabs and woodlouses now you've said this…

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