Bug name survey

[urbpan]

There's no right or wrong answer to this, I'm just interested to see what different responses there might be.



What do you call this animal?

Comments

Re: Schrodinger's cat

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Weird. I don't remember hearing "roly poly" until recently.

I seem to recall there being a great fascination with the way they curl up into a defensive ball.

Are you serious?! Part of my obsession with these things has to do with the fact that I've never seen the "pillbug" kind (with the armadillo defense) in New England. I'm stunned. I'm gonna turn over a lot of logs and rocks in the next few days.

Re: Schrodinger's cat

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

Yep that's the song. Asleep at the Wheel got together with the Dixie Chicks and did a decent cover of it as well.

I'm pretty sure they rolled up into balls when I was a kid, but that was a long time ago, I may be remembering it wrong.

Re: Schrodinger's cat

[momomom.livejournal.com]

http://www.dimensionsmagazine.com/dimtext/kjn/lyrics/rolyp01.htm