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From the lens Fun With Roly Poly Bugs.

  • hlkljgk Sep 10, 2010 @ 8:43 am | delete
    my daughter will love this.
  • luvmyludwig Sep 8, 2010 @ 12:36 pm | delete
    My son loves playing with rolly pollies. (he's 3) Great job on this.
  • GonnaFly Sep 2, 2010 @ 5:42 pm | delete
    Fascinating! We call them slaters and they love my compost pile.
  • Mark Greenspun Aug 8, 2010 @ 3:04 am | delete
    My firebelly toad loves roly polys!
  • eclecticeducation Mar 12, 2010 @ 10:40 pm | delete
    I rated this lens long ago so I came back to give it an Angel blessing.
  • RealFox Aug 14, 2009 @ 6:07 am | delete
    I have always loved the little boogers. I am now 38 years old and still play with them on occasion. I always watch where I walk in the mornings when I leave my home so not to step on them. There are usually 3-4 hundred of them running, sitting, and eating around my front porch every morning. In fact, it is 7:06 am right now. I am about to go check on them as soon as I finish this blurb. :)
  • Ecolicious Jul 1, 2009 @ 3:00 pm | delete
    My kids love pill bugs. I will need to show them this lens.
  • Roly Poly Lover Jun 17, 2009 @ 4:03 pm | delete
    I'm a kid, and my friends, siblings, and I put wood, dead grass-type things, dirt, ect. They're all so cool! We can tell them apart and gave them names!
  • aj2008 Jun 8, 2009 @ 7:15 am | delete
    When I was a child we called them "cheesey bugs"! Blessed by an Angel
  • S.H. May 28, 2009 @ 11:59 am | delete
    Hi,
    There are so many this year, in my plants...wouldn't they hurt or kill the plants?
    I love them ,too.
  • ChineseKitesforKids May 22, 2009 @ 8:41 pm | delete
    My fondest memory of my little brother is him playing with his pill bugs. It's just what kids do. Great lens!
  • KimGiancaterino May 5, 2009 @ 3:07 pm | delete
    I love roly poly bugs. My garden is full of them. Cute lens... Squid Angel Blessed!
  • jbauer0318 Apr 5, 2009 @ 12:09 am | delete
    Ha! What a fun lens! I remember having so much fun as a kid playing with the pill bugs! I also used to enjoy watching those fast little silver fish bugs and trying to catch them. I haven't thought of those things in a long time. Thanks for a great lens and bringing back good memories.
  • eclecticeducation Mar 26, 2009 @ 9:35 pm | delete
    Yep! I use to play with them as a child. Funny the things you do as a child!!! 5*
  • Nov 30, 2008 @ 6:56 pm | delete
    I loved to play with the Roly Poly Bugs when I was a kid.
    Great lens
    Bj
  • naturegirl7 Oct 26, 2008 @ 1:50 pm | delete
    Neat lens. All the little critters do their job in nature. Welcome to the Naturally Native Squids group. Don't forget to add your lens links to the appropriate plexos and vote for them.
  • Webcodes Oct 9, 2008 @ 3:13 pm | delete
    Fun fun lens. 5*. Much better than ants.. these guys won't come to your house and bother you.
  • mulberry Aug 12, 2008 @ 3:51 pm | delete
    I did know much about these but I'm certainly familiar with them! Good information.
  • Irenemaria Aug 12, 2008 @ 9:41 am | delete
    Amazing!! Everything is the same here in Sweden. I guess children are the same around the globe ;-D
  • Stazjia Aug 12, 2008 @ 3:51 am | delete
    Here in Britain we call them woodlice as you say on the post it. Great 5* lens.
    We used to live in a very old house with a log burner stove and I can remember putting logs on and all the woodlice evacuating and jumping into the hearth. I swept them up with a dustpan and brush and put them in the garden. After that I tried to peel the bark off logs before putting them on the fire.
  • Stazjia Aug 12, 2008 @ 3:51 am | delete
    Here in Britain we call them woodlice as you say on the post it. Great 5* lens.
    We used to live in a very old house with a log burner stove and I can remember putting logs on and all the woodlice evacuating and jumping into the hearth. I swept them up with a dustpan and brush and put them in the garden. After that I tried to peel the bark off logs before putting them on the fire.
  • enslavedbyfaeries Jul 18, 2008 @ 12:18 pm | delete
    This lens is invited to join the Going Buggy Group...
    http://www.squidoo.com/groups/bugs-insects
  • mommyenterprises Jul 16, 2008 @ 4:46 pm | delete
    I used to LOVE to play with these when I was a kid. I remember at my preschool, I would find them when I was outside playing.
  • LucyVet Jul 16, 2008 @ 8:14 am | delete
    Really interesting lens, I've always thought those mini-armadillos were cool! 5*
  • Teddi14 Jul 7, 2008 @ 1:39 am | delete
    My son is 6 and he loves to play with them. He names them while playing with them. Great site. BTW, we call them Roly Polies too. Now I can show him this and he will know what they are really called. Thanks!
  • enslavedbyfaeries Jun 30, 2008 @ 9:13 am | delete
    My little sister and I would play with roly polies for hours when we were little! Did you know that there is a Roly Poly Playground on Amazon? (You can see it on my Sugar N' Spice lens.) Welcome to the Squid Kids Group. :)
  • Gandree Jun 17, 2008 @ 2:14 pm | delete
    We called them roly polies back in the 50's and often found them in the grass around our back step. We all knew they didn't bite and could be safely played with.
  • gregnelisa Jun 11, 2008 @ 11:32 am | delete
    I love rolly polly's. My 2 year old son just discovered them!! Now I feel sorry for them when he trys to pick them up.

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