what name do people give to a woodlouse?

[Rave]

i have heard of many different names given to the common woodlouse. what's yours?

[mycats]

Slaters (yuck)

[B00]

Afraid I never get beyond calling them "eurghhh"

[kipchik]

Ball beetle!

[Thunderbird+]

I know them as woodlice but as kids we often called them armadillo's (just for fun) but the ones that roll into a ball when you touch them are pillbugs.

[debbz1969]

My mum always called them hardbacks..

[patsyann]

Curly Bobs

[spanner7853]

pillybugs

[naz_nomad]

Cheeseybugs

[electricblue]

Yep,ball beetles!!!
Hi kip!!

[wilsarnie]

Ha how funny, I didn't realise until a couple of years ago that they actually had a 'proper' name and I'm 26!

They were always (and always will be) 'piggy-wiggys' to me.

Thanks mum.

[snapdarlich]

I remember an episode of River Cottage with Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall where he called his 'Lunch'

Ack!

[Makinamess]

I call mine "bakers" (don't know why, I guess it's what my parents always called them). They make interesting toys for pets - my youngest cat used love to tap them gently so they rolled up in little balls, then she would whack them across the kitchen floor and chase after them !

[heathfield]

Phylum Arthropoda

[emkay]

My girlfriend calls them Brickbugs...Tickled me first time i heard her say it!

[sweetdor]

we call them chisel pigs

[noxlumos]

Grandfathers, no idea why.

[clair3934]

I call them Grandfathers

[SuRichardson]

Wee call them sourbugs

[Ochayethenoo]

I call mine Hamish

[Rave]

they're called 'cranfee croogers' by the way.