Roly Poly Facts: the BUG that ROLLS UP into a BALL | Animal Fact Files
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- The roly poly (or pill bug, potato bug, woodlouse, slater, doodle bug, etc.) is the bug that rolls up into a ball! Technically the word "bug" isn't super scientific, but the roly poly has many common names with the word bug, so that's why we're using it here! Learn more roly poly facts on this episode of Animal Fact Files!
Scientific Name: Family - Armadillidiidae
Range: Cosmopolitan
Habitat: Moist environments under rocks and logs
Size: About 0.5 inches (1.27cm)
Diet: Decaying plant material
Threats: Spiders, lizards, and small mammals
Life span: Two years on average
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@@limitbreak2966 Thanks so much!
they have to look out for eleven year old boys with magnifying glasses
When people crush them like you do with a roach, I don't feel the same way. Growing up in the late 90s I had nothing but good experiences with these little guys.
I kept some as pets as a kid. They are great.
@@victormendoza3295 Melville!
You wouldn't crush your pet hermit crab so why step on these tiny crustaceans
These little land shrimp already have enough problems already living with giant bugs, some of them like to eat rolly pollies
Even the smallest ants are more like the size of rats to them and they're one of the insects that love a Rollie Pollie dinner and there are spiders that specifically prey on woodlice
@@victormendoza3295 I keep them as pets to, I look under rocks and gather them by the hundred and put them in a container moisture potting soil and little pieces of logs so they can hide under them
Roly Polies & Green anoles made my backyard the best as a kid, I also grew up in the 90s
Who likes to touch these and make them roll up when they were kids? Ahhh I miss these
I certainly did!
I like to play with them. Sometimes I cut them in half and watch them continue to live for at least 10 minutes. Other times I impale them. I also play mini soccer with them. Fun times.
@@ladilaja6451 you're insane
Ladia laja what is wrong with you
@@ladilaja6451 :(
Since becoming aquainted with these cute little creatures, I have to say they are such fun to watch, the way they interact with each other! Some are shy, some are bullies that chase the others, some are quite gentle, especially with the tiny babies amongst them. I have seen them have tug of war with the food, walk over the top of others to get at the food and just sleep side by side with each other. This is at different times of the day of course. There are so many different types of isopods, such beautiful patterns. They are so beneficial for the environment. Please don't kill them, they are so valuable, they are no threat to humans or anything else. 👍🌞
Aww this is such a lovely comment! Thanks so much for sharing
You are very welcome. I have 2 colonies of Armadillidium Isopods, they are my favourite ones. I had Porcellionides Pruinosus powder blue and orange, but they bred too quickly and were quite agressive with each other, so I let them go near a little wetland near me, I hope they are OK. Thank you for your channel. It is so informative. Look forward to seeing more. 😊
I would never kill them and I always played with them as a child and thought they were harmless until I had my own child and wanted to show him the joys of the little creatures when I picked one up , put it on my palm and it bit me. Now i am scared of them.
I'm always rescuing these little guys when they come in my home and are caught in spider webs under my counters or in dust. I clean them off and put them out on the patio. I love all critters!
Aww that's so sweet! Critters are the best
I shoot every bird I see with rollie pollie in his mouth
I murder every living being when I see them harming these critters
@@Kawons😰
Idk why i always found roly polies so heccin cute
idk why i kill them for fun
@@alwaysgaming2115 because your a psychopath?!
DAM RUGRATS! Lol Melvil the rollie pollie
@@alwaysgaming2115 there's something wrong with you that's why.
I always liked watching them and every now and again picked them up as a child and enjoyed watching them rolling up in a ball.
But I also carefully put them back where I picked them up from.
These things are underratedly adorable
I have a roly poly!
I named it potato :)
Edit: 1 year later.
The vacuum got him.
R.I.P potato
I have 20
@@cryinginmairoom I have 13
I ate one in pre school
It is real isopod hours at your home
Bish you ARE a roly poly
I love Rollie-polies. I used to play with them and keep them as pets as a kid. They’re just so different and interesting.
Me too but now I’m cringing at how I could’ve picked them up
I have a rolly polly terrarium in my room that has been exponentially exploding in population! These are easily my favorite little critters!
They're so cute!
I remember always finding theses on the floor and poking them cause I thought it was funny that they rolled up
Two years seems like a lot of time for such an animal. Then again, they have proved to be very adaptive.
The way they walk their little feet lol sooooo cute
They are really cute and much more interesting than I thought initially. I built a small Wood Terrarium with a population of Roly Polies, and found out: Like most animals I got to know better also these guys have totally different personalities. While several ones just eat leaves all day peacefully side by side, there is a special bully one who always chases and pushes any other one who comes near it. By now their favourite food seams to be cucumber and sweet potatoe. Putting one slice in the terrarium you soom can watch a whole family dinner.
Mine loves apples
Ah the roly Poly, every terrarium builders friend, but they have always seemed kinda fishy to me 🦐
👉😏👉 ayyyyyyyy!
I named my pet Rollie Pollies Jupiter, comet and Galaxy
😐
Hahahaha
I grew up knowing them as roll up bugs and doodle bugs. I know a little song that’s not very long, doodle bug doodle now it’s all gone. :)
Doodle bug is a cute name. =)
They are so cute 😌
By the way the roly poly at 2:19 is pregnant 😀
don't they lay eggs?
@@tabithacanada technically yes but the eggs hatch inside the isopod's 'brood bag' or pouch underneath her, so she still carry them when they have hatched. The babies will stay some weeks there until they get out of the pouch
@@TweetyTwT what a good mother
I never knew the name. When I was younger I just described it if I needed to tell someone. I'd say something like, "I saw one of those tiny curly balls" and the response I would get is someone scratching their head in confusion. Then I'd pull them by the hand and point, "See? Tiny curly balls" and proceed to poke the little critters until they curled into a tiny curly ball :D
Now, I know better! Thank you YT ... and of course, to you Animal Fact Files :)
Aww that's still a super cute way to talk about them! Glad you learned something new, though! 😄
Common Danish name for them are "Bænkebidere" which roughly translates to "bench biters". Given that a lot of benches in Denmark used to be made of wood, which then over time rotted, it became rather obvious why they got that name
That's a really appropriate name then!
Here in Argentina they're called "bichitos bolita" which means little ball bugs. I live in a litoral region, next to a river and with a bunch of lakes, so the climate is absolutely moist. I find them alongside worms in my patio and in between plants and old stuff kept there
My friends and I randomly started a group named “the roly poly club” and kept them as “pets” but not really, we would just keep them during recess. One of mine named “micheal” my friend accidentally stepped on him. I was sad 😔
Rolly Pollies, earthworms, pincher bugs and lady bugs are as nostalgic to me as Dragon Ball Z.
I hear their dancing is fantastic. Their cuisine? Phenomenal! Like a second family.
I don’t eat them, I save them from being stepped on.
i agree with you! there the cutie in
????? Don't eat them??? Who would in the first place?!?!
@@mrduck8863 Lots of people! GROSS
SAME I ALWAYS TRY TO SAVE THEM
Same
I always used to play with them in my backyard when I was like 4
The rollies in my backyard growing up use to go into a ball just by touching it making them really easy to pickup and handle. But this year, they run instead of ball up. It's been confusing me all summer. Has anybody else noticed this???
Interesting observation
maybe the population in your area has evolved to run from humans? The ones that roll might get picked on more often by kids than the ones who just scurry off. 🤷♂️
Sow bugs look like eollies but can't roll. They have little tail pointers at their back ends and often nest with rollies, so they're easy to mistake for each other.
Justice League meeting:
Superman: Alright what are your powers
Aquaman: I can control fish and water
The Flash: I'm extremely fast
Roly Poly: I have gills and can still drown
Superman: Alright we're all se- wait a minute
@Liliana Morales i can only give my self and Felis one like, you're not getting one from me till christmas.
I used to call it a ball bug when I was little 😂😂
In my school playground we have a ton of roly poly bugs and snails (we are allowed to touch these cuties!)
One of the teenagers in our class made a roly poly race and of course it did not work (the roly polys in our school live in the tires we play with)
I used to try racing them, too! Sounds like a fun playground. =)
Yup! =)
Teenagers have a playground at school?
This was great! I would love to see a garter snake episode!
That's a great suggestion! I'll add that to the list. =) Thanks!
If you like to collect them for your own terrariums, be careful, wild ones tend to carry mites
Thank you for posting this video now my pet Roly poly moves on has moisture I did not know that but now I do thanks
I was always told they were, "pill bugs."
I recently purchased a Venus fly trap… I was looking for something to feed it, hoping for a spider or fly. All I could find was a few rolly pollies, and put him in. It closed up and started digestion. I felt bad but let it happen. Almost a day later I used a flashlight to see inside and it was STILL MOVING. I felt so bad because of my fondness of rollies as a child that I cut the plant open and freed it. It walked out just fine because they’re tuff. I put it with its family again under the rock I found it…..
I don’t feel like ever harming one again.
Hopefully he has a good story to tell his clan in bug language.
Always called them Woodlice here in Dublin, great video, lil legends. As for dining on them, that's a hard pass on animal cruelty. Live and let live be kind to all kinds.🌱🌍💚
Woodlice seems like such a terrible name to call them. Roly poly is cute though.
I'mma let you finish, but Melville was the best roly poly of all time.
Oh my god, yes! #Rugrats
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I used to have this toy that you put them inside and it has little slides and tracks that they can roll on. Wow what memories. Just me and my roly poly friends.
I remember being a kid and just going out into the yard to pick up a rock and watch them roll around. It was so fun
great video! very informative!
Thanks for watching!
Cool facts yet again
I got here trying to figure out why they were always in the pools I’m cleaning. Just for the record a while back several years maybe decades. I was going through an experimental phase and realized that instead of stepping on an smaller insect I can just simply step around. That laughter or feeling you get for burning ants with a magnifying glass you don’t want that inside you. So I basically save every insect that I see at work. And lizards and stuff too, I give everybody five minutes the lizards are really skeptical about the net and like to jump back in
Perhaps they're looking for moisture from the pools? It's nice you're mindful of the life around you
Used to love playing with them in the 2000 they were your bsf when you didn’t have anyone to play with outside
We called them potato bugs growing up but my son absolutely loves them! He plays with them all summer
They're all around my place 😌. I love to take care of them and hold them.
Aww that's so cool! They're really fun to watch!
Great video!
Thanks!
I use to catch these all the time when I was a kid
I love these little funky guys
0:40 There he go's :D
I think when I turned over an old log, I saw a roly poly on top of another and it looked like they were mating
Thinking about poor little Melville. (Watching that episode right now, too!)
i used to collect them as a kid theyre chill
These are actually really good things. They remove heavy metals from soil.
Fun fact: These are also known as species gamma. You have to keep an eye on the mini-map at all times to see if one of them is flying towards you lest you get ragdoll locked to death.
I never ever knew they had gills! My bf and I loved this❤
I've always called them "Potatoes Bugs"; I know it doesn't make much sense seeing as they don't look like nor eat potatoes at all,but that's the name that I grew up with so it just stuck with me.
By the way; as anyone seen the movie 'A Bug's Life', and remember that "You fired!" scene?
Most people call them "pill bugs" where we live. I grew up calling them roly polies. I LOVE potato bug!!!
YOU FIRED!!!
I love Roly Polys!
Grew up around Puget Sound and we had tons of these being such a rainy climate. We called them sow bugs or pill bugs. Nice to know they can be eaten just in case I am in a survival situation in a moist climate.
I loved seeing them as kids!
I think someone would have to collect 100s just to have one meal for 1 person. There’s no way these tiny little creatures could fill a person up otherwise.
Hi
Thank you for a great video!
I live in Denmark. Our common name for roly polies directly translated is: "Bench Biters".
I guess because people often saw them under and on benches? :)
With kind regards
Thomas
I wonder when has there armor been a defense they
either get crushed or a bug prys them open.
that was cool. Can you do the American goldfinch
Absolutely! I'll get that on the list. Thanks for the suggestion!
When I was in second grade me and my friends went hunting for roly-polys and we found like 10 or more in a month then one of the classmates told on us then the teacher told us to never do it again did the same thing with ladybugs and the same thing happened me and my friends put it in a bag to.
I have a question. I found a roly poly, but something is wrong with him. He keeps flipping over and he looks dazed and confused... I don't know if he'll live long he's slow and climb up on surfaces.... Idk what to do... I don't wanna release him....
We called rolley polleys, poo poo or caca bug, we always saw hundreds on cow patties growing up. We also used doodle bugs, to politely mean doo doo bugs, lol. We'd never pick one of these up, yuck...
The idea of a pill bug metropolis atop a dung pile is quite amusing.
I remember as a kid thinking their little legs felt funny when I let them crawl up my finger. Nice little guys.
love these bugs
♥️WELLY BUGS❣️ Idk why😆. I guess my Nana called them that when I was very little. I always thot it had been my mom, but the subject came up & she (n her 70s) said "No". My childhood friends always said "Rollie-poly" or "Doodle Bug". I've also heard them called "Pill bugs", "Potato bugs", "Sow bugs", etc, by some adults. I have YET to hear any1 else say "WELLY BUG", but I love them & now think of my Nana when I see 1❣️😍
I heard rumors that people actually keep these little guys as pets and allow them to breed.
I have to wonder how easy it is to actually raise these guys?
I also heard rumors that some people use them and earthworms in compost piles to better break down the stuff in them.
Cute Little Buggies 😊
the sowbugs i always saw i thought were roly poly but i also used to call them potato bugs for some reason??
i have these as pets, they live in a big terrarium i made specially for them :)
i'm holding one in my hand right now, it tickled. they kinda freeze when i'm near probably so i think they are dead, but i know they aren't. make sure to leave them alone sometimes. or they just won't move cause they are terrified- of big things. that just randomly pick them up? yeah.
Same. I like watching them when they're scuttling around in the dirt and I try to move them off walking trails while I'm out
I used to fun these when I was like 8 or 9 I would go out and play dig in the dirt and found them
Rolly pollies are my favourite tiny creatures
Love finding them out in nature!
They are so cute!
Mine are clumsy af
That's kind of adorable tho?
I live in Scotland in the far Northeast of the country, we don't have a hot climate in summer if we get up to 19C we are happy! My mumcalled them Slaters presumably because they're found under slate tiles? I detest them. I can't abide worm's I have a phobia about them and I just detest earwigs, mum called them forkietails. Not everything turns my stomach, my career has been as a registeresd nurse in the operating theatre, firstly as a scrub nurse then latterly through a University course I became an anaesthetic nurse. I've even been to a post mortem/ autopsy. Which would make most feel a little squeamish !
What I call those bugs is pillbugs
Thank you
i searched this up because theres one climbing up my wall right now
The only terrestrial relative of shrimp . The allies rained them on germany during world war II in an attempt to destroy crops . One author ate some during research, he said that they taste like dirt , no surprise there .
really cool
Pill bugs and Coconut crabs are the only two terrestrial crustaceans
We used to call them doodoo bugs as kids.but I understand that pill bugs is what they're called in adulthood...sounds much better.😏
idk I kind of like doodoo bug 😹
In Germany they are named "Kellerassel". There are species living in water pipes "Wasserasseln".
I always remember the iCarly episode where Spencer got stuck in the vent. And freaked out because he saw a Rollie pollie in front of him.
The one that flipped over, with the caption that you were pretty sure it wasn't a roly poly, is, in fact, a roly poly.
They're called wood shrimp because they turn red when cooked like shrimp do. Also when I was a kid I always thought they died when they gave birth because the underside kinda splits open
oaky, so Roly Polies, are also Woodlice (or a woodlouce) which is what I myself know them as
and are also Pillbugs which I occasionally hear these little bois being reffered to as
Also Woodlouce are my personal favourite animals. Yes those tiny ankylosaurs are cooler than Sharks too me!
Roly Poly (pillbug) enthusiasts is a group on FB
I love roly-poly‘s they’re so cute
Completely agreed
Bear grylls probably ate rolly pollies before.
unfortunatly in spain due to the drought this winter these guys are out in the morning and then sadly die in the sun and because there is no water they come out at night because we get condensation in the morning but the sun gets them by the afternoon its sad to see but theres so many of these guys we cant help them. :(
Ohhhh. Now I know why a roly poly was hiding under me while it was hot.
They also tickle while walking on the palm of your hand.
If it touch your skin it really does
We call them woodlice/woodlouse in the uk, i always rescue these, actually i rescue just about anything ♡︎㋛♡︎
It's weird. I live in San Antonio Texas and have my entire life and I swear I used to see these things everywhere as a kid. I saw them come into my house from outside, I saw them on the floors at school Alek times, I've seen whole piles of them but I don't think I've seen a single one since I was little. It's like they stopped existing. Is this the same from any of you?
Can't believe people think they're pests
Yep that's what I call it Rollie Pollie play with them when we were kids play marbles with them then when we're done we just let them go
I tend to just call them woodlice or isopods, and always have even as a kid.
I call them rolly pollies and I keep them watered like my dog and I also keep them as pets in my back yard
Tell me why they keep craw out from. Soil to pavement and got step on and bird eat them