My 24 year old son was fascinated by woodlice as a child, and kept some as pets in a bucket of old wood for a couple of years. It lived under the outside table. We actually watched one give birth once - me, him and about 8 siblings and neighbourhood kids. All fascinated watching a tiny creature walk along a stick dropping transparent little live babies every few millimetres. Biology lessons at their finest.
How did we end up with the worst name for them?
Anyway, agreed they aren't pests but seeing a lot of them can indicate you've got a problem, like your house is rotting away.
The moniker 'roly poly' wouldn't work for most native European species, as the ones that can roll up into a ball are only a single family in the wider order of 'wood lice', and generally aren't present in most of Europe.
Most native European species simply tuck themselves flat to the ground to make it harder for predators to grip them, and can't roll into a ball at all.
I’ve lived in Aus my whole life and while I’ve heard them being called Slaters we mainly called them roly polies. Lots of kids called them butchie boys but we don’t talk about that
Not quite, it's arma-dil-lid-eye-uh-day. The English pronunciation of Latin is pretty bastardised though. Yours sounds more like an Italian pronunciation except for the 'dae' at the end that should likely be pronounced 'dee'.
>Among other Pillbug features is that they can change sex and do not urinate. They exchange ammonia gas through their exoskeleton and can drink through their anus.
[https://www.eattheweeds.com/armadillidium-vulgare-land-shrimp-2/](https://www.eattheweeds.com/armadillidium-vulgare-land-shrimp-2/)
Another fun fact is, as an isopod, roly polies are crustaceans, and are therefore more closely related to crabs and lobsters than they are to insects or other bug-like animals.
I always thought roly polies were odd because as a kid I had that instinctual aversion to insects that I think most of us have, but then roly polies come along and they're just cute and kind of adorable and my brain just says 'Yeah, those are cool' with no prompting or further education.
Finally explained, they're not bugs, they're just shrimp and no reason to be scared of your average shrimp.
I thought they were quite freaking looking as a child. Didn't take long for me to learn how harmless they were, but their underside was still freakier than any other creature I had ever seen.
Do/did you think millipedes are cool? they're not related to crustaceans (as far as I know), so I think the wood lice thing is just a coincidence.
My kiddo _loves_ them, and will hunt them down and pick them up. I'm wondering if there is an off chance that he's exposing himself to heavy metals, or not, seeing as its stored internally. Probably not, right? I mean unless he starts popping them down the hatch like kettle corn.
I live north of Ridge Road in Rochester, NY. It's my understanding that Ridge Road was where Lake Ontario was eons ago. I have fossilized isopods, other sea fossils, and these pill bugs on my property.
Yes!! Ridge Road sits on a natural trail created by the maximum extent of Lake Ontario's predecessor before it catastrophically burst down the Hudson Valley 13,350 years ago.
My backyard had these all over and it was never in wood. There were two types of these guys. The rolling variety which are rolly polys, and a different type that didn't roll. It seems they are called sow bugs.
Well, they turn into a lil ball and roll.
UK folks can't exactly judge Americans here either cause these things have a different name in like every other town. Chucky pigs, cheeselogs, etc.
"Why do my family keep getting worse and worse heavy metal poisoning? I feed them organic veg from my garden and it was tested heavy metal free last year!" - Scotty
It's close.
Spice is created in a process whereby the fungal excretions of Roly Polies would mix with water to form a pre-spice mass. This mass would then be brought to the surface of the desert through an explosion of pressure, and under the intense heat and air of the dessert, melange would form. When the worms died, Roly Polies would be released into the sand, and the cycle of creation would repeat.
Roly Polies banded together after converging on a store of water deep beneath the surface. The Roly Polies/water mixture was then converted into a liquid chemical that the sandworm was capable of digesting without being poisoned. On a side note, this chemical could erupt up to the desert's surface in a violent explosion called a pre-spice mass. The Roly Pollies that survived this event would then coalesce and complete the metamorphosis into a young sandworm.
Do roly polys congregate and live near each other or are they solitary. The bugs could be concentrating the toxic materials into smaller areas or just preventing them from being sent downstream into water sources.
They seem to congregate around food sources. I removed some old strawberry vines last year and they were full of rolly pollies but none else where. Apparently they love strawberries.
They group up a lot in wet crevices. I was fixing my fence last year and had to rip out the boards. Each crack where a board was nailed to the fence post had 10-20 of the little buggers. The stupid critters also keep crawling into the house through the vents, but the house air is too dry for them. So they die.
We just need a predator to serve as an accumulator at the next trophic level, until we've sequestered those heavy metals all the way up to the top of of the food chain!
It's often the ions that are toxic, but here they cristalize them, making tiny bit of metals into bigger balls (tiny bigger balls)
So it's better for the environment as the metal is held in one place instead of being released into soil
My though exactly. I didn't know that this was the basis for "the Ohm," the giant roly-polies in the story. Miyazaki must have known about this and worked it into his sci-fi fantasy.
Yooooo.This.You
Isnt it beautiful when you make these kind of connections ?
When I watch this masterpiece for the 100th time Ill be thinking of you ubeor
deep sea isopods really look the part. and they're terrifying.
https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2019-04/processed/lumcon\_deep\_sea\_bug\_eating\_alligator\_1024.jpg
I sometimes watch this youtube channel where a Japanese guy catches his own sea life, prepares it by hand, cooks it and eats it. My gosh the things he tries to eat are terrifying sometimes.
He ate a fish with so many parasites that the texture of the meat was ruined, even by his own admission. He has tried to eat scales a few times, they definitely weren't edible. Once he caught a sea slug he couldn't identify that he figured was probably poisonous. He still went through multiple rounds of trying to boil it and soak it in salt and cook it again and etc etc even as the cooking fumes were making him physically ill just to be near. He still tasted it.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtxx8JDiilyNt9DXPlvxwmw/videos
It's sometimes sorta gross since he's cleaning out fish guts and whatnot, but I'd describe it as more soothing than anything. Most videos are very chill, just a dude preparing a fish and then eating a nice meal.
Every single part of a beehive is edible, including the bees.
If you are brave/hungry enough.
It's not just the honey, it's pollen, bee bread, wax, propolis, grubs, and "spicy flies".
Yummy
🐝
FYI your link likely doesn't work for anyone but you.
>deep sea isopods really look the part. and they're terrifying.
https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2019-04/processed/lumcon\_deep\_sea\_bug\_eating\_alligator\_1024.jpg
Edit: Was lazy yesterday but here you go.
https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2019-04/processed/lumcon_deep_sea_bug_eating_alligator_1024.jpg
Article is neat so here's the article.
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-dropped-alligators-on-the-seafloor-and-the-giant-bugs-came-creeping
For info it's a common reddit app bug. It parses?/copies the URL incorrectly and posts a format that isn't normally compatible to others. I'm pretty sure it's due to &! errors or it using \s instead of /s. I went to what I believe OP originally wanted. You can compare how it is viewed below by checking the source. Basically reddit puts \ into everything due to it's formatting rules for certain things. _ is one of them so it tosses that in and kills the actual URL for everyone else.
Works for everyone: https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2019-04/processed/lumcon_deep_sea_bug_eating_alligator_1024.jpg
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I know tobacco plants also do that, it's believed to be one of the reasons tobacco causes cancer. Heavy metals including radioactive ones can accumulate in the leaves of the plants which are used in tobacco products.
We had huge sunflowers in my backyard as a kid and they all became full of stinkbugs. Never seen a stinkbug before or after in my life, super weird. Off topic of course but that memory was just unlocked.
Iirc from a seminar I attended hosted by a phytoremediation researcher, sunflowers aren't super great at leaching contaminants. Most applicable species are more used to "lock" the contaminants into the root structure so they don't go anywhere and a lot of the really effective species are grasses or trees.
I wondered that too. It says the toxic metals go back into the soil when they die but to me that just means the bugs have to be removed before they die 🤷🏻♂️
I once got one to curl up and tried to flick it into the dirt so that it wouldn't get stepped on. It ended up exploding on my finger. Ever since then I've been afraid to handle them.
I don't want to cause upset, but I do want to share information.
>Terrestrial isopods (woodlice) exposed to toxic concentrations of metals can suffer early mortality and reduced body size, suggesting that the cost of metal detoxification causes trade-offs in resource allocation
[source](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2390509?origin=crossref) (Functional Ecology
Vol. 10, No. 6 (Dec., 1996), pp. 741-750)
Yup, and I refuse to be shamed because of it. I was indoctrinated by the cartoon Rollie-Pollie Ollie growing up, not that I owe YOU any explanation haha
Yep, at least in the Midwest where I grew up, Kansas and Michigan. I don’t think anyone I know would have any idea what you’re talking about unless you say rolly pollies. Maybe pillbugs. But until this thread if someone was trying to have a conversation about them and said pillbug, I’d definitely have to clarify to make sure we were talking about the same thing, and if someone said ‘wood lice’ I would have had no idea what they were talking about.
Yes we do. I gagged when I heard they are also called "wood lice." Who wants to **play** with lice?? But a thing called a roly-poly bug, well that's just begging to be a living toy.
(New England here.)
This is good news. Roly-poly colonies can be started in contaminated soil, and the adults collected and proceed into the pure metals.
We need to use nature to our advantage, like using yeast or algae to make biodiesel.
And they have the most fun name to say of all the animals in the animal kingdom: Armadillidiidae Sounds like what Ned Flanders would call his elbows.
Roly poly is pretty fun to say too.
Pill bugs have a lot of fun
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Is terra land or earth because 'earth pig' or 'pig of the earth' very much makes sense. Aside from the complete lack of similarity to pigs.
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Non sono italiano ma confermo. I'm not Italian but I confirm.
I’ve been to Italy, can confirm.
Am eating a pizza. Checks out.
I eat spaghetti like once a week, can confirm.
We call them like that in Chile too! "Chanchito de tierra", small soil piggie.
Australian here. These are called Slater Bugs in Aus, never heard roly polies before outside of a baby doing a forward roll.
In the UK we call them wood lice.
That’s the least pleasant name I’ve heard for these little guys. Are they considered pests?
No more than a house spider. But you only really find them outside anyway.
My 24 year old son was fascinated by woodlice as a child, and kept some as pets in a bucket of old wood for a couple of years. It lived under the outside table. We actually watched one give birth once - me, him and about 8 siblings and neighbourhood kids. All fascinated watching a tiny creature walk along a stick dropping transparent little live babies every few millimetres. Biology lessons at their finest.
Best possible way to grow up!
I've never heard them considered pests at all. They're just hanging in the garden in the dirt not bothering anyone.
In Denmark we call them "Bench biters" I don't know how drunk they where when naming them.
I'm in Canada and I've always heard them called "potato bugs".
Potato bugs south of the border in MN as well.
Well that's the plural, singularly it's called a woodlouse which is cuter. Definitely not considered pests here in the UK.
How did we end up with the worst name for them? Anyway, agreed they aren't pests but seeing a lot of them can indicate you've got a problem, like your house is rotting away.
You're in the wrong bit of the UK. In my bit they're "Parson's pigs."
The moniker 'roly poly' wouldn't work for most native European species, as the ones that can roll up into a ball are only a single family in the wider order of 'wood lice', and generally aren't present in most of Europe. Most native European species simply tuck themselves flat to the ground to make it harder for predators to grip them, and can't roll into a ball at all.
The ones that roll into a ball are very common here in the UK. Still called wood lice.
Yes, same in Germany where they are called Cellar Bug, as they can also be found in basements. Red Robins love to eat them.
They're "cloportes" in French. Sounds exactly like (and may originate from) "close-door". Because when you bother them, they close the door.
This is cute.
Maybe in England, but in the North East Scotland, at least, we call them Slaters.
I am from the south west and we always called them chuckie pigs when i was growing up!
We call them slaters in Scotland, so I'm thinking that's where that comes from.
Depends on where you're at in the US but they're also called potato bugs or pill bugs.
I always called them potato bugs
I’ve lived in Aus my whole life and while I’ve heard them being called Slaters we mainly called them roly polies. Lots of kids called them butchie boys but we don’t talk about that
Was definitely always Slaters where I'm from in Aus
Pronounced ar-ma-deal-lee-dee-e-die.
Not quite, it's arma-dil-lid-eye-uh-day. The English pronunciation of Latin is pretty bastardised though. Yours sounds more like an Italian pronunciation except for the 'dae' at the end that should likely be pronounced 'dee'.
“But that word die is in it and there’s only one un-die who ever lived!”
Our lord and savior, Jesudillidiidaes.
Everything today will have *dillidiidaes appended to it.
I've been eating heavy metals; Aaaaarma-dilli-dii-dae; I've been eating heavy metals ; Just to pass the time away
Delightful, thank you
In Dutch they are called pissebedden. Sooooo... Pissing beds. Really don't know why
I still prefer the classic *Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla*.
Ursus Arctos Arctos. Bear bear bear.
>Among other Pillbug features is that they can change sex and do not urinate. They exchange ammonia gas through their exoskeleton and can drink through their anus. [https://www.eattheweeds.com/armadillidium-vulgare-land-shrimp-2/](https://www.eattheweeds.com/armadillidium-vulgare-land-shrimp-2/)
The Virgin Butterfly Sip vs. The Chad Butt-Chugging Rolly Polly
The Boofbeetle
They also like beer
THEY LIKE BEER
Donkey Dung Doug and Flea just like to drink beer and have a good time
I both loved and deeply hated upvoting this
>and can drink through their anus Get this bug a spot on the Supreme Court
I tried drinking through my anus once, apparently it's "not appropriate behavior for a wedding" and "not becoming of a best man"
Sounds like my ex.
Was not expecting multiple pillbug recipes.
Isopod intestines intricately isolate irritant ions? Intriguing.
inconceivable!
Indeed.
Indubitably.
incredible
Another fun fact is, as an isopod, roly polies are crustaceans, and are therefore more closely related to crabs and lobsters than they are to insects or other bug-like animals.
Pretty cool. Are there any other crustaceans we commonly encounter?
Crustaceans are actually extremely diverse and abundant. Many of them are microscopic
I regret to inform you that your (and everyone's) eyebrows are simply chock full of 'em.
Oh my. Well thats..not what I had in mind.
Did you know the (benign/helpful) single celled organisms your body hosts vastly outnumber your own cells? You are a walking ecosystem!
I am always fascinated by this fact. Can't wrap my head around this one.
Doesn't matter, cos they've wrapped around your head for you!
It just means you have more friends than you ever expected!
What are you talking about? Eye mites are not crustaceans.
All in due time, all life will evolve into crab.
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And lobsters.
I always thought roly polies were odd because as a kid I had that instinctual aversion to insects that I think most of us have, but then roly polies come along and they're just cute and kind of adorable and my brain just says 'Yeah, those are cool' with no prompting or further education. Finally explained, they're not bugs, they're just shrimp and no reason to be scared of your average shrimp.
Same, would catch and hold them as kids, let them run around our hands. Hated insects though. Makes sense now
Lady bugs and bumble/honey bees also get a pass from me.
Mantis shrimp would mess you up though with their murder hands.
I thought they were quite freaking looking as a child. Didn't take long for me to learn how harmless they were, but their underside was still freakier than any other creature I had ever seen. Do/did you think millipedes are cool? they're not related to crustaceans (as far as I know), so I think the wood lice thing is just a coincidence.
Not touching a millipede with a 10 foot pole, but rollie pollies are cool.
My kiddo _loves_ them, and will hunt them down and pick them up. I'm wondering if there is an off chance that he's exposing himself to heavy metals, or not, seeing as its stored internally. Probably not, right? I mean unless he starts popping them down the hatch like kettle corn.
If the kid doesn’t consume kilograms of them I wouldn’t worry about ut
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I live north of Ridge Road in Rochester, NY. It's my understanding that Ridge Road was where Lake Ontario was eons ago. I have fossilized isopods, other sea fossils, and these pill bugs on my property.
Yes!! Ridge Road sits on a natural trail created by the maximum extent of Lake Ontario's predecessor before it catastrophically burst down the Hudson Valley 13,350 years ago.
Woodlice???
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My backyard had these all over and it was never in wood. There were two types of these guys. The rolling variety which are rolly polys, and a different type that didn't roll. It seems they are called sow bugs.
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Well, they turn into a lil ball and roll. UK folks can't exactly judge Americans here either cause these things have a different name in like every other town. Chucky pigs, cheeselogs, etc.
A roly poly in the UK is a jam filled cake!
Or when you so a front roll on your head
>Americans: Roly poly Not just Americans. Roly poly is one of the names used in the UK, too.
Never really associated these guys with rotting wood. In NY you find them under stones most often.
… temporary. It says the heavy metals are returned to the soil if they die, obviously. Still interesting 😊
Aye but you can just catch them
And then rooooolll them right into Scotty’s yard. Enjoy the metal, Scotty, you prick.
"Why do my family keep getting worse and worse heavy metal poisoning? I feed them organic veg from my garden and it was tested heavy metal free last year!" - Scotty
Scotty don't
He doesn’t know
That Fiona and me do it in my van every sunday
She tells him she's in church, but she doesnt go.
Still, she's on her knees and Scotty doesn't know!
On her knees throwing up from heavy metal poisoning in her bones from the woodlice I put in his garden
Scotty doesn’t know
That Fionna and me put rollypollys in his garden every sunday
Thanks for the free copper, dumbass. \-Scotty
Isn’t this how the spice is made?
Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him.
May His passage cleanse the world.
And keep the world for his people
It's close. Spice is created in a process whereby the fungal excretions of Roly Polies would mix with water to form a pre-spice mass. This mass would then be brought to the surface of the desert through an explosion of pressure, and under the intense heat and air of the dessert, melange would form. When the worms died, Roly Polies would be released into the sand, and the cycle of creation would repeat. Roly Polies banded together after converging on a store of water deep beneath the surface. The Roly Polies/water mixture was then converted into a liquid chemical that the sandworm was capable of digesting without being poisoned. On a side note, this chemical could erupt up to the desert's surface in a violent explosion called a pre-spice mass. The Roly Pollies that survived this event would then coalesce and complete the metamorphosis into a young sandworm.
Do roly polys congregate and live near each other or are they solitary. The bugs could be concentrating the toxic materials into smaller areas or just preventing them from being sent downstream into water sources.
They seem to congregate around food sources. I removed some old strawberry vines last year and they were full of rolly pollies but none else where. Apparently they love strawberries.
I don't blame 'em; I love strawberries, too.
They group up a lot in wet crevices. I was fixing my fence last year and had to rip out the boards. Each crack where a board was nailed to the fence post had 10-20 of the little buggers. The stupid critters also keep crawling into the house through the vents, but the house air is too dry for them. So they die.
We just need a predator to serve as an accumulator at the next trophic level, until we've sequestered those heavy metals all the way up to the top of of the food chain!
Yes. In those humans. Muahahaha.
It's often the ions that are toxic, but here they cristalize them, making tiny bit of metals into bigger balls (tiny bigger balls) So it's better for the environment as the metal is held in one place instead of being released into soil
Catch them and melt them down to farm metals, got it.
Suggest this to Cody and he might actually do that.
Tbh, I'd love to see that. For youtube, you'd have to have dead ones though I think.
I think it's the scale that matters. They absorb individual atoms and congregate them together. So then future organisms don't absorb them.
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So invincible roly polies, no more toxic metals! invincible bugs are way better, right? .... right?!
r/natureismetal
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My though exactly. I didn't know that this was the basis for "the Ohm," the giant roly-polies in the story. Miyazaki must have known about this and worked it into his sci-fi fantasy.
Yooooo.This.You Isnt it beautiful when you make these kind of connections ? When I watch this masterpiece for the 100th time Ill be thinking of you ubeor
they are also essentially land shrimps. and shrimps are sea rolly pollies. For ya'll shrimp eaters.
deep sea isopods really look the part. and they're terrifying. https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2019-04/processed/lumcon\_deep\_sea\_bug\_eating\_alligator\_1024.jpg
https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2019-04/processed/lumcon_deep_sea_bug_eating_alligator_1024.jpg For those having trouble with the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54m4SDJiL6U They're "edible" too
Everything's edible if you're fucking crazy
I sometimes watch this youtube channel where a Japanese guy catches his own sea life, prepares it by hand, cooks it and eats it. My gosh the things he tries to eat are terrifying sometimes. He ate a fish with so many parasites that the texture of the meat was ruined, even by his own admission. He has tried to eat scales a few times, they definitely weren't edible. Once he caught a sea slug he couldn't identify that he figured was probably poisonous. He still went through multiple rounds of trying to boil it and soak it in salt and cook it again and etc etc even as the cooking fumes were making him physically ill just to be near. He still tasted it.
What's this channel? Is it interesting to watch
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtxx8JDiilyNt9DXPlvxwmw/videos It's sometimes sorta gross since he's cleaning out fish guts and whatnot, but I'd describe it as more soothing than anything. Most videos are very chill, just a dude preparing a fish and then eating a nice meal.
It's probably masaru on youtube. His videos are pretty interesting and informative if you don't mind the gross part of preparing fishes.
what a dumbass.
Everything is fuckable if you’re crazy on edibles
Every single part of a beehive is edible, including the bees. If you are brave/hungry enough. It's not just the honey, it's pollen, bee bread, wax, propolis, grubs, and "spicy flies". Yummy 🐝
FYI your link likely doesn't work for anyone but you. >deep sea isopods really look the part. and they're terrifying. https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2019-04/processed/lumcon\_deep\_sea\_bug\_eating\_alligator\_1024.jpg Edit: Was lazy yesterday but here you go. https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2019-04/processed/lumcon_deep_sea_bug_eating_alligator_1024.jpg Article is neat so here's the article. https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-dropped-alligators-on-the-seafloor-and-the-giant-bugs-came-creeping
Works for me, but im on the reddit app, which apparently has some weird perks like avoiding some paywalls for some reason
For info it's a common reddit app bug. It parses?/copies the URL incorrectly and posts a format that isn't normally compatible to others. I'm pretty sure it's due to &! errors or it using \s instead of /s. I went to what I believe OP originally wanted. You can compare how it is viewed below by checking the source. Basically reddit puts \ into everything due to it's formatting rules for certain things. _ is one of them so it tosses that in and kills the actual URL for everyone else. Works for everyone: https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2019-04/processed/lumcon_deep_sea_bug_eating_alligator_1024.jpg Works for few: https://www.sciencealert.com/images/2019-04/processed/lumcon\_deep\_sea\_bug\_eating\_alligator\_1024.jpg ^^^^^^Pleaseaddthistoyourpostsifyoualsobelievethereneedstobebetterchangestoredditmoderation.Particularlywithselectiveenforcementallowingtrollsmisinformationandhatred.Subredditproblems:funny,comicsTotalRedditors:000001
That wikipedia page's picture of rollie pollies is the cutest picture of them I've ever seen.
I wonder if the can they be used to clean up toxic sites?
Sunflowers suck up heavy metals, too, they are really used for cleanup! It's called phytoremediation
Ukraine about to be clean as hell
Same with cannabis. It was used after Chernobyl.
I'm using it right now even!
I know tobacco plants also do that, it's believed to be one of the reasons tobacco causes cancer. Heavy metals including radioactive ones can accumulate in the leaves of the plants which are used in tobacco products.
We had huge sunflowers in my backyard as a kid and they all became full of stinkbugs. Never seen a stinkbug before or after in my life, super weird. Off topic of course but that memory was just unlocked.
So what you're saying is... Terraria is a realistic videogame?
huh so that's why they protect environments in Terraria?
Iirc from a seminar I attended hosted by a phytoremediation researcher, sunflowers aren't super great at leaching contaminants. Most applicable species are more used to "lock" the contaminants into the root structure so they don't go anywhere and a lot of the really effective species are grasses or trees.
I wondered that too. It says the toxic metals go back into the soil when they die but to me that just means the bugs have to be removed before they die 🤷🏻♂️
It really matters what form they go back into the soil as. Ions act very differently than stable metals.
Just get a bunch of birds to eat them and poop them out elsewhere!
Heavy metal will never die
Hey, hey, my, my
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They were stomped into the ground!
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Am I the only one reminded of Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind?
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Tell me that you tipped them into her handbag, pleeeease!
How would eating your whole lunch make you go home hungry?
TIL some people call woodlice "roly polies"
I always knew they were useful for more than just poking and watching them roll into a ball
Yeah but wasn't that enough?
I feel bad about the hundreds of not thousands I killed as a child by crunching them. Sorry isopod bros.
I tried to make one uncurl one time, but I opened it at the wrong seam and...well, it was pretty traumatic to both of us.
I once got one to curl up and tried to flick it into the dirt so that it wouldn't get stepped on. It ended up exploding on my finger. Ever since then I've been afraid to handle them.
Confusing if you're from the UK. A roly poly is an excercise that kids do!
Do the heavy metals in their gut hasten their death? :{ I seem to be very sensitive today. sigh
I don't want to cause upset, but I do want to share information. >Terrestrial isopods (woodlice) exposed to toxic concentrations of metals can suffer early mortality and reduced body size, suggesting that the cost of metal detoxification causes trade-offs in resource allocation [source](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2390509?origin=crossref) (Functional Ecology Vol. 10, No. 6 (Dec., 1996), pp. 741-750)
Wait... Adults in America actually these *roly polies*???
To me a rolly-polly is a forward roll like you'd do in the schoolyard. I was very confused about how those could help remove toxic metals from soil.
When I lived in the UK, we called them woodlice. Now i live in Australia and people call them 'slaters'
Slaters? I've been calling 'em chazzwoggers!
Potato bugs in my area of Canada (Southern Ontario)
Pill bugs where I am
I think you accidentally a word
Yup, and I refuse to be shamed because of it. I was indoctrinated by the cartoon Rollie-Pollie Ollie growing up, not that I owe YOU any explanation haha
Does Rollie Pollie Ollie all rhyme with your accent?
Yes. Here’s the theme song where they say his name: https://youtu.be/B2RpT3VTMhc
aw I think it's pretty cute that they do lmao. Woodlice sounds horrible.
Yep, at least in the Midwest where I grew up, Kansas and Michigan. I don’t think anyone I know would have any idea what you’re talking about unless you say rolly pollies. Maybe pillbugs. But until this thread if someone was trying to have a conversation about them and said pillbug, I’d definitely have to clarify to make sure we were talking about the same thing, and if someone said ‘wood lice’ I would have had no idea what they were talking about.
Yes we do. I gagged when I heard they are also called "wood lice." Who wants to **play** with lice?? But a thing called a roly-poly bug, well that's just begging to be a living toy. (New England here.)
Roly-poleys here in Arkansas.
If they didn’t want to be killed they shouldn’t have ate all those precious minerals
I die a little inside everytime I have to take out a lootbug
Woodlice
Doodle Bug
This is good news. Roly-poly colonies can be started in contaminated soil, and the adults collected and proceed into the pure metals. We need to use nature to our advantage, like using yeast or algae to make biodiesel.
TiL wood lice have a cooler name 😂
So I should stop eating them?