Tuesday, July 27, 2010

We Called Them Pill Bugs

Growing up these little bugs were called "Pill Bugs", flash forward 30 something years and they are now known as "Roly Polys". Joshua and Elizabeth have been checking out Roly Polys for sometime but a few months ago Joshua got Sydney involved in the hunt.

Sydney loves finding Roly Polys but but she refuses to pick any of them up. Her cousin Elizabeth is not so timid, through Elizabeth's experimentation we have found out that dead Roly Poly's turn white.





9 comments:

Jane said...

Im with Sydney. look dont touch!

Andrea said...

We called them roly polys, too. And made "farms" for them in our wagon. Good times!

Diane said...

I have always called them Roly Polys. Sydney found some outside Starbucks with Dora in May.

Queen B said...

We called them Roly Polys :)

Lisa said...

Back in Ohio we call them potato bugs!! They were always such fun to play with.

Amy said...

We called them potato bugs

Steve Geppi said...

I've always known them as Potato Bugs...

Rach said...

Jason caught Elizabeth with one of these in her hands at our house a few weeks go. She brought it inside and Jason opened her hand- then proceeded to walk her back outside- funny

Anonymous said...

I guess it depends on where you grew up. I have alwasy known them as roly poly's.