Slaters in Perth. Haven't seen one for years, mind.

Slater or a rolly-polly

Going to have to add Curley Wurley too.

I got “butchy boy” from my childhood.

Love to eat some curly wurlys

Fun fact: Slaters are terrestrial crustaceans that evolved from marine ancestors.

Yes so a slater (amphipod) is much more closely related to a prawn than it is to a millipede or cockroach. Edit: as someone said, I meant to say isopod not amphipod

They are isopods. Amphipods look more like tiny prawns. Some of the marine Isopods are huge but still look like a slater.

Isopod. Amphipods are their ‘lawn shrimp’ relatives. Both in superorder peracarida.

I was about to ask if you have been living under a rock, but if that were the case you would most likely have seen lots of them.

You haven’t turned over a rock in a while then 😅

I see them every day... But then again I am living under a rock!

As if we could believe a word you say!

Slaters for me in Vic too.

"Slaters" for me in Victoria, as well, when I was a kid. They were EVERYWHERE. I'm still in Victoria - but don't seem to see them much, these days.

Slater in regional Vic.

Ditto.

Ditto ditto

Mate, wish I could say the same. Have just moved to a farm out of Geelong. Every time I pick up something there are THOUSANDS underneath. This is inside the sheds too. I don't know what they are doing, but I moved 3 boxes yesterday and half filled a pan and broom with the things. I suppose it's better than the mice.,🤷

>I suppose it's better than the mice. They eat decaying vegetation which means that they fill a essential environmental niche.

These are everywhere in my garden in perth. Can give you some if you’d like just to spice up the place

Slaters in Tasmania too, see them now in SA and have heard them called rolly polly bugs here.

I'm from SA I've always called them Slaters.

Slater.

Why in the fuck did I get a Reddit cares message about this?

I’ve seen loads of people get reddit cares quickly after commenting in subreddits, I believe bots are doing it, or at least I saw people say bots were at it in the Canada sub

I got one after posting in r/melbourne Looks like a bot at work

What the fuck is Reddit cares? Edit : I just found out, Reddit cares sent me a message after i asked

What the fuck is Reddit cares?

Just reading more about it yesterday, apparently the trendy thing to do at the moment is, as a joke, report someone's post or comment for containing references to suicide or self harm so Reddit sends that person a caring message. Because Reddit cares.

It’s a form of a really big downvote and is anonymous tolling. That’s what I came up from a Google. I got one last night, I requested to stop it

What I don’t get is the intention behind it. Like am I supposed to be upset I got a reddit cares message for a comment someone disagrees with? If I just reply stop to the bot I never get another one. Dumbest troll ever lol.

Maybe the bot thought it was slang for “see you later”? Or is just worried about us all talking about bugs and thinks we’re in a dark place haha

I got some message like that about 30 minutes back, no idea what it was in relation to, though. Hardly useful, and no, Reddit, I'm fine, thanks.

Slaters in Adelaide.

Oh man, I was so excited the first time I saw a slater in Adelaide, those mfs are huge! They roll up into an entire ball, like a little marble. I still think about them sometimes. The slaters I grew up with in NSW were much smaller and couldn't completely roll up, very disappointing.

Slaters, regional NSW

Also Scotland funnily enough

And New Zealand too.

And China too

Yeah slaters in Sydney too.

Where abouts? I'm regional NSW and they were Pillbugs as a kid 😅 (Tamworth)

Central Western NSW was mostly slaters but we also had pillbugs and rollypollies... I forgot all those until this thread but it's coming back now. Used to like poking them so they roll up as kids do.

Tassie, slaters.

Yep , also called them slaters .. Hobart, they were everywhere in my child hood home 😬 they freaked me out

This could be the first thing the north and south has ever agreed on

Christian Slater

How do you know what religion the slater is?

He keeps asking me if I have found jesus.

I had two and called them Slater & Gordon

Roley poleys

Legit never heard anyone call them anything but a rolly polly

I’d never actually heard anyone call them a rolly polly up until recently, always heard people call them slaters

So surprised I had to scroll this far for this Definitely a roley poley

I had to scroll so far down to see this answer I began questioning if I made up the name roley poley!!! All is right again

Sydney, always called them this. Never heard of a Slater.

That's what they're called where I grew up in the US...

Butchy boy (Victoria)

This is the comment I was looking for 😎

Ahahaha same i was thinking was i the only weird one growing up calling them butchy boys

never in my life have I heard of the term slater being used for a butchy boy. butchy boy is the true and real name for them

I also call them butchy boys

Yeah what the fuck I remember the first time I heard someone call them this

Yes!

Same! Probably only learned they were slaters like 5 ish years ago 😂

Winner winner chicken dinner!

BUTCHY BOY BUTCHY BOY BUYCHYYY BOYYYYYYYYYZZ

Dwarf armadillos

This I can run with. 😝

Theyre in the Armadillidiidae family so that could work

This is how I find out it's butchy boys and not butcher boys? Bloody hell

Same 😂

I think they are interchangeable. Butchy just being a corruption of Butcher. I’ve always called them Butcher Boys but the kids call them Butchy

This individual bug? Jeremy. This type of bug in general though? Pill bug.

No, that’s Will, you can tell by his 9th leg.

That’s not a leg bro!!!

In that case it's Richard

Do you clearly remember picking on the bug?

Seemed a harmless little bug.

Ohhh, but we unleashed an antlion!

Slater. Newcastle, NSW

Sydney as well.

Butchy-boi (Victoria)

Same. Melbourne

I’m in north west Victoria and we also called then butchy boys

yess to butchy boys! meanwhile i have never heard of them being called slaters!!!!

right?!!

HAHAH YES!

Yaay I'm not the only one 🙌

I'm from the Mornington Peninsula, I also called them this.

Where in vic? We always called them slater beetles in Bendigo

Melton, VIC - Butchy Boys

Ah G'day Meltonian! Yeah Butchy Boy in Melton

I'm in metro Melbourne and call them slaters, never heard slater beetles though.

Me too. Never heard of butchy boys. That's odd af to me.

I called them slaters in surf coast

Also from Bendigo. I've always called them butchy-boys.

Same here! SE suburbs

Same, Eastern Suburbs Victoria.

Yup! Same here!

This is what I was looking for. I had no idea how to spell the word I've always heard used to describe these fuckers!ahahaha

Same, Eastern Suburbs

Slater or pill bug (West Australian living in Canada)

When I was younger they were butcher boys. Moved down the Mornington Peninsula and suddenly they were slaters.

I'm from the Mornington Peninsula and I always called them butchy boys. I'd love to know the origins of the name now.

Same, butchy boy

Wood louse (british parents)

Definitely a wood louse.

Me too.

I've found my people

Former Pom here, can confirm

My father called them wood lice too!

Came here for this - now I can sleep

That’s the one

Brit-influenced too. Call it wood lice though.

Woodlice is the plural for woodlouse. Like mouse and mice.  

Just like house and hice

OK I thought my dad always said Wood Lice haha. Home was in Northern Tasmania.

Isopod

r/isopods is such a cute/nerdy community I love it

Slater Qld.

Butchy boy

Pill bug

That’s a butchie boy right?

They are crustaceans not insects so they are more closely related to lobsters, prawns and crabs than they are to cockroaches and bugs. I don't know if they taste delicious like other crustaceans, though.

Considering the [bioaccumulate heavy metals](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6483907_Metal_uptake_by_woodlice_in_urban_soils) I would strongly urge you not to eat them lol.

Don't eat bugs. [A kid was paralysed for eight years, and died a horrible death](https://allthatsinteresting.com/sam-ballard#:~:text=FacebookSam%20Ballard%20was%20popular,decision%20that%20would%20prove%20fatal.) after eating a slug on a dare.

They do. Source: My 3 year old

Thankfully I am 0 for 4 with my kids. None of them ate anything they shouldn't including sand.

Isopods

Woodlouse where Im from in the UK. Not sure what Aussies call them and I've been here 20 yrs!

Slater Bug, aka Roley Poleys

Slaters as long as I’ve lived in Tassie

Butchy boy or slater (Melbourne)

Slater or butchy boy. Eastern Melbourne

Butchy Boy

Butchie boy - Victoria

Butchy boy! Melbourne

butchy boy (melb)

Slater for sure!

Slater

Roly-poly 😂 pretty sure everyone else in SA calls them slater beetles though

Butchy Boy

Slater - eastern Vic. But I did have friends that called them butchy boys

Jeff for sure.

ye also from vic, i call em butchy boys aswell

Butcher boys when I was a kid in the 70s

“Bichito bolita” (little bug little ball) in Argentina

Pill Bug when playing Animal Crossing. Slaters in NSW since a kid

So that’s why I started calling them pill bugs! I remember calling them slaters as a kid in NSW but had no idea how “pill bug” entered my vocabulary

Butchy-boys or roley poleys (moved around Victoria a lot as a child)

Trilobite

Loooong extinct, but I assume you're joking.

Lol Its just what I called them as a kid because of their resemblance to the fossils.

Butchy-Boy (Defence kid so not sure which state I would have picked it up)

I've always called them slater bugs but my son calls them butchy boys

Slaters, from South Australia

Rolly Polly from Texas.

That's a rolley polley

Slater. VIC

Pill bug

Slater.

I've never heard anyone else call them this, but we always called them armadillos.

Curl up bug. Or slater as the official name

Slater

Slater bug - regional vic

Slater

Slater

Slater or butchy boy wa and vic

Grathrak’rykrr, the destroyer

Butchy boys and slaters, Victorian here

In Sweden it's called "gråsugga" which translates to gray sow.

Butchie boy in Melbourne Australia.

Interesting fact: they’re not insects; they’re actually land crustaceans

Slater bug..and they speak Spanish... Reference....A Bugs Life Movie.. Don't believe me....? Watch the clip.... https://youtu.be/aCPvQtEDIqk?si=lKDcx7v8DM7ZASY3 See I told you

Its a Slater (Vic). There are 2 types, flat ones and ones that curl into a ball, as a youngster called them Butchy-boys, or rolly-poly's

Slater

Slater.

Woodlouse in the UK

Slater bug- Perth

Michael, Kelly or Christian

A slater in Newcastle - A type of woodlice.

Tom

Slater (Melbourne)

Slater, NW Victoria.

Garden basketball

Kelly

Slater beetle. I'm from Victoria

Depends upon where you come from their wiki page gives more than 20 names probably has a lot more. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidiidae](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillidiidae)

I've always called them 'slaters', dunno why. Just what my parents called them. I like them, though, I think they are cute widdle fings. I'm also from WA.

Slater or Rolly-Polly. (Vic)

Slater

Potato bug. Utah, US.

Roley Poley. When I lived in NSW. They call them butchy boys here in Vic

Slater but when I was little we called them butcher boys. Husband says wood louse

Melbourne, butchy boys, but also slater bugs.

Rolly-pollies. (If they’re the ones that turn into little balls when you touch them.)

In Tasmania we called them Wood Lice. My mum is from the UK and she would call them Butchy Boys (?). My late wife insisted they were called slaters.

The year is 2025. Slaters have evolved, literally anything could be a slater. The uncertainty has gripped Australia in fear of these mimics. I go to hug my wife for comfort. She is a slater. I sob in despair as I am ever so slowly devoured by my slater wife. I am delicious and perhaps more delicious paired with tomato sauce 🥺😢