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20 Feb 21, 03:35 PM

#101

caj

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Originally Posted by SMAX

Yes I think it stops at the M20. What do you call them down there?

I've always just called them woodlice, although have heard pellet bugs before.
My prof called them hardybacks but I largely ignored him as he invariably had his own nicknames for everything!

I spent hours in the woods hunting them down. My diss records the 7000 I found, combined total of 3 species. I think I actually found about 70! Oops!

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20 Feb 21, 03:40 PM

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20 Feb 21, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by caj

I've always just called them woodlice, although have heard pellet bugs before.
My prof called them hardybacks but I largely ignored him as he invariably had his own nicknames for everything!

Legend has it that large masses of them in rotting timbers (Possibly rotting river ships and barges) give off a cheesy odor. So the nickname Cheesy Bug, or Cheese Log further up the river, would work with that theory.

20 Feb 21, 03:45 PM

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Alleyway
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Roll or crusty roll
Woodlice

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20 Feb 21, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by SMAX

If I ever get drawn back into studying them (I wont! ) I'll remember that. Could test it by taking a cheesy sarnie/ buttie/sub/hoagie!

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20 Feb 21, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by WIGGYSMUM

Chuddy ?

Chewy.

He just hasnt met me yet!

20 Feb 21, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by mick

Snickleways in York Here's a book that I recommended recently to someone who was about to visit.

Mick

Love that Snickleways book!

Alleyway, baps, plimsolls, dressing gown, heard of cheeselogs but its woodlice for me. 😀

Edited at 04:08 PM.

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20 Feb 21, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Colette-S

Chewy.

Chewing gum or gum.

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20 Feb 21, 04:32 PM	#109
	20 Feb 21, 04:32 PM WhereIBelong Imagineer
WhereIBelong Imagineer Join Date: Aug 15	Woodlice are Slaters where I was raised. I did not even realise they were the same thing for decades.

20 Feb 21, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by WIGGYSMUM

Chuddy ?

Choddy.

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