OK Utah you need a lesson on BUGS!!! Every since we have moved here the above bug has been refered to as the potato bug. I have seen a real potato bug in my own back yard in California and the above bug is NOT a potato bug. This is a pill bug or as the kids in CA. like to call them rollie pollies because of there cute little way they curl into a ball when you pick them up. They provide hours of intertainment for the young. They live in your grass not your potato garden. Now here is a picture of a real potato bug "warning not a very cute bug!!"
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HA HA! Thank you. I would make Jory read this, but I fear for not getting any sleep if I do ;-)
Hilarious! I am from CA (as you know) and we ALWAYS called them potato bugs. As I got older I started using rolly polly and potato bug interchangably. I never heard pill bug until a few years ago. :-) I guess it just depends on where you grow up. Sidenote: I saw one of those REAL potato bugs once in Ramona and Troy and I thought maybe it was a killer bug of some sort. It took us forever to research it online. Even then I don't remember it being called a potato bug but maybe we'd found its scientific name or something.
I remember those yuck. I still call the others rollie pollies.
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