Shit, I clicked “other” because I didn’t see slater.
Minus 1 from “other”, add one to “slater”.
Yep, that’s a Isopod.
I had to vote for “scientific name” but that’s not quite rigth either.
When I was a kid, we called them pill-bugs. SoCal.
Roly poly or pillbug, about equally. Around here a “doodle bug” is entirely different. A doodle bug lives in sandy areas and creates an inverted cone in the sand so that its prey slides to an early demise.
Long Island= Potato Bug
I call them woodlice. I mean, I’m aware that they’re called isopods, but they’re woodlice to me.
Northeastern Illinois. I call them roly-polies when talking with my 7-year-old nephew who likes to hunt them in the garden (to play with). Otherwise, wood lice.
Spent most of my growing up life in the Pacific Northwest and I called them potato bugs or roly polys.
Before the PNW I lived briefly in Oklahoma, Oregon, and Germany, before moving to Washington.
That’s interesting - the garden variety are woodlice here in the south of England, but their not-so-pretty, more-leggy, more-athletic cousins at the beach are Sea Slaters.