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Mrs McMuffin has become strangely obsessed with the cheesy bugs, or slater beetles, or wood lice...She has realised that practically every region in the country, or should that be world, has a different name for the little creatures. She would like your help in cataloguing all of the different names. Please leave a comment with the name you know these creatures by, and where you are from. In return for your help, please feel free to enjoy this recipe for wood louse sauce. Apparently it tastes like shrimp and goes really well with fish!
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I always said you were a good man really. I suppose I really should start.
I call them 'cheesy bugs' and this is what they're called in the SE London/North Kent area
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 4 Mar 2004 08:31:22
I have also found out they're called 'Granny Greys' in Rhondda and 'Billy Buttons' in Wiltshire.
Other names are:
Bibble bugs, sow bugs, curd worms, tiggy hogs, shoe laces, sink lice and coffin cutters, but I don't know which regions in which country call them this.
Mr McMuffin calls them 'Slater beetles' (Glasgow), but then he was always strange.
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 4 Mar 2004 08:37:47
Well - this just proves that everywhere else is alot more interesting than wherever you are. I mean how creative - "coffin cutters", is this from Transylvania? Personally I like 'tiggy hogs' - in fact i think i might go and adopt one and keep it as a pet. It would suit me to the ground - not so much committment as a cat or dog .
Dog...see, now I'm off again. I wondered whether white dog doings were a result of what dogs were fed on in our youth.... (knowing this country probably each other), and like our own diets, doggy dinners have been upgraded. Perhaps it is the equivalent of our four legged friends being fed strawberry Angel Delight or tinned fruit cocktail that includes plasticised cherries, grapes and (Mrs Carrot-Cake's favourites) pineapple chunks and pears, all wrapped up in a spasm-inducing syrup. Don't know about anyone else but in our family this particular food item was greeted which such abject horror, it had little chance of ever making it as far as our stomachs let alone getting the chance of becoming dessicated excretia. Although come to think of it, I think that , on occasion, the pears did make it onto the pavement outside our house, curtisy of a secret moment, a long spoon, catapult action and the stealth of a young Mrs Carrot Cake.
Posted by: single cookie | 4 Mar 2004 09:45:22
Besides ewww, ick, gross and disgusting, I would refer to them as 'Pill bugs'.
Posted by: jo | 4 Mar 2004 12:48:41
Thanks Gypsy/Treacle tart (I can't remember either). I'm going to record here that 'eerie bugs' is the Belfast name, or else I'll forget. Researcg project coming along nicely, thanks.
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 5 Mar 2004 18:22:27
Pill bugs or roly-poly bugs.
Posted by: Retro Girl | 6 Mar 2004 03:34:18
Hi, in the Netherlands we call them "pissebedden". Probably because formerly people thought they were beneficial to peeing. Literally it means bed-wetters.
Nice site!
Posted by: Gerrit van Leeuwen | 10 Mar 2004 12:06:20
in sweden we call the grå-suggor, grey-sows
Posted by: heffa | 12 Mar 2004 07:45:35
I'm a northerner and we always just called them woodlice. It wasn't until I started working 'Dahn Sahf' (west Kent) that I first heard the term 'cheesy bugs'. WTF is that all about?!
Southerners!
;-)
Posted by: Kirsty | 12 Mar 2004 23:41:37
Wife just calls them "the hard backed creatures".
Posted by: Steve | 16 Mar 2004 17:01:13
Here are some pics of a giant underwater pill bug - http://hinterlands.cc/index.php?showtopic=27
Posted by: Robert Gale | 24 Mar 2004 18:15:00
Aw jeezus Robert, I don't think I'll sleep tonight now!
Posted by: Steve | 24 Mar 2004 19:06:01
Aaargh!
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 24 Mar 2004 20:58:46
dude, those are roly-poleys.
Posted by: amber | 26 Mar 2004 16:51:00
Here's another gross one for you - http://pya.cc/pyaimg/pimg.php?imgid=3717
Posted by: Robert Gale | 14 Apr 2004 07:57:41
I am from the Oregon, USA, and grew up knowing them as 'potato bugs,' but also regularly heard them called 'pill bugs.'
I asked a friend from the Chicago area, and he said they used to call them 'bloodsuckers' and 'tater bugs.'
Bloodsuckers is my personal favorite, as I find an infestation of bloodsuckers seems much more dramatic that an infestation of pill bugs, although there is a certain sense of comic delight associated with an infestation of rolly pollies.
Posted by: bp | 5 May 2004 05:34:12
Thank you very much for your help and I agree, bloodsuckers sounds the best.
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 5 May 2004 08:04:03
Pill bugs and Woodlice are different in the fact that a pill bug can roll itself completely spherical (and you can play marbles with them) whereas a woodlouse has legs'n'stuff sticking out. Try it. I'm right...
Posted by: Phil | 5 May 2004 20:58:50
The things we call woodlice over here do roll up into tiny little balls. I know, I used to poke them when I was a kid just to watch them do it.
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 5 May 2004 21:25:02
Ah, they must have been pill bugs then. If you take a wander in the garden and turn over some stones you may find a variety of these things, watch out for orange ones though, they'll 'ave yer arm off! Phil central is located in sunny Dorset and the bugs here I swear are getting bigger!
Posted by: Phil...again | 6 May 2004 15:38:47
You must have all manner of freakish creatures in Dorset, I don't recall ever seeing arm eating orange ones.
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 6 May 2004 19:18:01
Hello everyone. Stumbled across this page looking for info on gypsy tarts, specifially confirmation that they're only known in Kent (which seems to be true, by the way). I'm delighted to find that the debate over folk-names for the woodlouse has spread far and wide.
Anyway, I can tell you that in a remote corner of south-east Kent the little devils are known as monkeypeas. And before you ask, I don't know what the relevance is to monkeys, although I hope you agree that the pea bit is rather apt. This name only applies to the ones that roll up into a ball, which I'm often told are not woodlice, but no-one seems to know what they are if not.
If you want to get really precise, I've only ever met people you know what the hell a monkeypea is in Dover (where I'm from), Folkestone, and (having just Googled it) Canterbury. And for all I know, that may be all - until now... Spread the word!
Posted by: Paul Morris | 14 Jul 2004 14:29:31
Thankyou, Paul. Monkeypea-who'd a thought it.
I am also amazed to learn that Gypsy Tart is a Kentish dish and its gooey deliciousness is not known outside the fair county. So my sister pisked a 'local' name, I wonder what non kent people think of her choice.
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 14 Jul 2004 15:12:17
I have sucessfully managed to erase 'cheesy bug' from the vocabulary of the kids in my class.
Perhaps I am destroying local culture and tradition!
Will ask at work today if anyone over this end of Kent has heard of 'monkeypeas'. I haven't!
Have never heard of a gypsy tart either, but I'm not a native - what exactly is it?
Posted by: Kirsty | 15 Jul 2004 07:26:12
Louisiana, USA... we call them.. are you ready?
We call them 'Doodle Bugs'. Usually this is in reference to the slow pokey ones that roll up into a nice ball until they realise they aren't in any danger and insist on trying to escape.
We usually lumped the faster flatter version in with that name but I've also heard of them (both varieties) referred to as 'sow bugs' due to the fact that they bury themselves in loose, highly vegetative content soil. Not wet, mind you, just rich. Water tends to get them up and out, crossing the sidewalks and such. They 'sow' themselves into the earth, like seeds.
Posted by: Raen | 18 Jul 2004 10:02:16
I'm from Western New York, and I've always called them potato bugs, although a few of my relatives call them tomato bugs for whatever reason. I think they just heard it wrong as kids and the name stuck. Just a few weeks ago the kids at my day camp found a red one, which I've never seen before. Hey, maybe that's where tomato bug comes from.
Posted by: Jewels | 26 Aug 2004 06:51:24
Well, my ex-husband came from north Kent and he always called them cheeseybugs - now I know why. I come from north London and call them leatherjackets, despite living all their early lives in Devon, my children call them cheeseybugs too.
Posted by: Lynette | 10 Sep 2004 10:51:44
Im from Gravesend in Kent and have always known Woodlouse as Cheesybugs. After a conversation with a friend last, I discovered anyone outside of the Kent area has no idea what a CheesyBug is - this was confirmed when I discused this with my work collegues and was met with very blank and confused faces asking what on earth I was talking about!!
Does anyone know why they are called so? I will not rest until I have an answer!!!.....
Posted by: Kelly | 14 Sep 2004 16:26:13
I have lived in Canterbury kent since I was a kid and loved poking monkeypea's when I was little and seeing them role up in a ball. Funny that when I went to uni no one had heard what they were and it was just plain old woodlice. Funny that no one has heard of Gypsy Tart either. Now that is yummy!!!
Posted by: Railton | 16 Oct 2004 00:19:39
I used to live in Bexley Kent but now live in North Yorkshire I call "wood lice" cheesybugs so do my kids who were born in the North but when the kids refer to them outside of the family nobody has a clue what they are talking about.
Posted by: Gary Amos | 13 Nov 2004 18:39:31
how fantastic that there are other people in existance who know woodlice as cheesybugs!! my welsh boyfriend and mates have thought me v strange 4 referring to the roll up creatures as cheesybugs! i thought my grandad made it up,kent born and bred but obviously its even further back than that! some one v clever must find out y!!! then let me kno!!
Posted by: sarah | 31 Jan 2005 21:40:33
Woodlice are called parson pigs in the Isle of Man
Posted by: Lynda | 22 Mar 2005 12:08:42
I was born in Dartford and only ever knew them as cheesey bugs. However, all others I have ever met , except one person from Yorkshire, have looked at me strangely when I have said this. Why? they ask. 'I have know idea', I answer. Can anybody shed any light on as to the reason?
Posted by: Stu | 28 Mar 2005 10:48:19
I'm from Kent to and on discussing 'Cheesy Bugs'in the office was met with looks of amazement when I used the term!
Posted by: Steve R | 5 Apr 2005 13:08:19
Yeah, yeah...Mrs McMuffin has persuaded me that working for Microsoft is not a good reason for banning you from our site. You're so lucky.
Posted by: mr mcmuffin | 5 Apr 2005 13:12:00
I'm a son of Kent, now living in West Sussex. I've always called wood lice cheesy bugs, but on talking about taking rubbish to the tip, in the office today, I said "It was covered in cheesy bugs!" and this was met with dumbfounded looks and amazement by my colleagues. Very few people outside of Kent seemed to have heard the term. It has provoked an intense and very interesting debate. Please tell me why are these little crustacea called cheesy bugs? You'll be glad to know I'm now spreading the word on cheesybugs outside Kent! Love the site - Keep up the good work - Steve!
Posted by: Steve Asellus | 5 Apr 2005 14:07:52
very good
and i see the web with google
Posted by: doclee | 7 Apr 2005 14:51:15
Cryptic, yet succinct.
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 7 Apr 2005 21:43:16
Known to my girlfriend as cheese logs, she's from wiltshire, I also know a guy from bristol who calls them grandfathers.
Posted by: Weevile Kineavile | 11 Apr 2005 19:20:01
About the white poo..... I just found this site, so this post goes back topic.... White dog poo comes from eating bones which dogs don't get to do so much these days. Not only is it white, it doesn't smell like poo from kibble or other commercial dog food...
Posted by: susan r | 15 May 2005 18:55:23
Granny came from Cornwall and called them Grammarsows or Gramfers - what next!
Posted by: trish | 20 Jun 2005 10:53:58
I'm a southerner who was brought up in NW Kent but now live in the Rhondda in south Wales. In the Rhondda woodlice are, as you say, known as 'granny greys'; when I was growing up in the Bromley area however I never knew them as anything other than woodlice.
Posted by: Eileen | 13 Jul 2005 22:36:39
From here in Dover I can confirm there is only one name for the little critters and that is 'Monkeypea'. Most of my work colleagues agree barring two, and the're not local! Yorkshire call them 'woodlice' amazingly and Charing Kent 'peaballs' apparently? But please refer to them as Monkey peas
Posted by: Pete Sanders | 10 Sep 2005 21:31:37
we all ways called them Creepy Crawleys.
Posted by: Win | 14 Nov 2005 03:19:01
Hi,
I'm in Australia and we call them "Slater Bugs"
Regards
Denice
Posted by: Denice Weaver | 1 Dec 2005 14:14:00
hello my darlings.in somerset ive heard woodlice called gramfy groogers and chuggy pigs
Posted by: martin | 12 Mar 2006 10:05:39
Hi
Justed wanted to say that after many drunken nights discussing the cheesybug or the fact i didn't knoe what they were, I decided to call my new business by that name.
Checkout:
www.cheesybugtoys.co.uk
www.cheesybugtrampolines.co.uk
www.cheesybugpedalcars.co.uk
Posted by: Ivan Latter | 4 May 2006 11:02:25
PLEASE HELP! I need an explanation as to how on earth woodlice became known as cheesy bugs. I was born in Kent and now live in London. My flat mates thought I was completely mad when I told them I had cheesy bugs running round my room - why CHEESY??
Posted by: Michelle | 13 May 2006 15:31:06
I know wood louse as pea bug due to it rolling up into a ball and I am from Kent
Posted by: Sharon | 18 Sep 2006 00:58:22
Horay!!!! This website has sorted many ongoing arguments over if these are cheesybugs or monkeypeas! I know them as monkeypeas being a Dover girl , until I mentioned this word to my partner (I thought everyone knew them as this)!!! Whereas my partner is from Gravesend and only knows them as cheesybugs!! Weird!!
Shocked at how many regional names monkeypeas actually have!!!!!!!
PS I used to keep them in a jar on my windowsill as special pets when I was 8 or 9(until I saw alien and then I got a bit scared of them).
Thanks!
Posted by: Clare | 23 Sep 2006 20:51:57
Hi all,
Cheesy Bobs is what we have always called them. The little creatures (woodlouse)eat rotting wood we used to have loads out side in the wood shed. They do curl up totally we used to prod and poke them too poor things! I come from Surrey and everyone here as far as I can tell call them this.
hope this helps.
great site by the way.
Posted by: claire | 22 Oct 2006 16:54:51
I've always called them monkeypeas (I'm from Dover)and my boyfriend who's from Surry calls them cheesy bugs!
Posted by: Helen | 19 Jan 2007 10:21:33
I'm from Surrey and have always known them as cheesy bugs. Am living in Yorkshire now and have only just found out no-one up here knew what I was on about until we had to trap some of the little blighters and kill them (kind-ish laboratory methods!) for research purposes. I had many a strange look as I can't refer to them as anything other than cheesy bugs!
Posted by: SarahL | 4 Feb 2007 10:39:33
Well, 1/2 million Newfoundlanders call them Carpenters (and probably another 1/2 million Newfoundlanders on the Mainland of Canada as well). I have not been able to find the reason for the name, but everyone (I suspect) calls them "Carpenters".
There are thousands in my mother's wet basement.
I lived in Ontario and Alberta for a combined 25 yrs and did not see one of them.
Posted by: Brian McD | 13 Mar 2007 13:14:12
At last, someone else who calls them Cheesy Bobs!! And I'm Surrey born and bred!! But then so's my boyfriend and he only calls them wood lice - boring! Perhaps it depends on where in Surrey you come from.
Long live Cheesy Bobs!
But my 5 year old niece wants to know why they are called cheesy bobs/bugs?? Anyone know?
Posted by: Ali | 25 Apr 2007 20:35:42
im from somerset and we call them cheesy pigs
Posted by: cassie | 13 May 2007 12:14:52
I'm originally from Buckinghamshire and have always referred to the 'rolling up bugs' as Cheese Logs. Thought it was the norm until I mentioned it to my boyfriend (from West Sussex) who thought (and still thinks) I'm bonkers!! So I did an internet search to prove I was right and ended up here. But why Cheese?
Posted by: Kim | 14 May 2007 12:08:06
I have always known them as Cheesy Bugs, about a year ago when my boyfriend gave me a funny look when i said 'look at the cheesy bugs' he laughed thats when i realised it must be a local thing.
There is a group on Facebook called, I call woodlice cheesybugs (and i'm probably from gravesend).
Here is the link;
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2380443247&ref=nf
Posted by: Harriet | 12 Jul 2007 14:04:29
Hi, I'm from Berkshire and we always called them Cheese Logs, im in Suffolk now and my husband calls Ladybirds 'Bishey barn bees!!..but I would love to know where the term cheese log can from....
Posted by: Rosalind | 14 Jul 2007 11:25:40
Ive always called them Cheesybobs too. Im from Guildford in Surrey.
My husband from Basingstoke looked very puzzled at me when I said " Oh a cheesybob " for the first time......
Many people Ive had this conversation with seems to be only people from Guildford who call them this... id be interested where in Surrey the other people who call them cheesybobs where born.
Posted by: MrsR | 1 Sep 2007 14:08:46
Definantly call cheesy bugs in kent, my sister used to eat them, I must ask her if they tasted of cheese and I'll post her comments. Gypsy tart again as a kent lass we had this at school for pudding all the kids would go back for seconds, I hated it and found it very sickly. I did find a recipe some time ago and its made on a pastry flan the main mixture consists of evaporated milk and brown sugar whipped, cannot remember if there was anything else added.
Posted by: Mrs S | 3 Oct 2007 10:07:04
Definantly call cheesy bugs in kent, my sister used to eat them, I must ask her if they tasted of cheese and I'll post her comments. Gypsy tart again as a kent lass we had this at school for pudding all the kids would go back for seconds, I hated it and found it very sickly. I did find a recipe some time ago and its made on a pastry flan the main mixture consists of evaporated milk and brown sugar whipped, cannot remember if there was anything else added.
Posted by: Mrs S | 3 Oct 2007 10:07:44
I am from Whitstable in Kent and I have always known the little creatures as Monkeypeas. I now live in Yorkshire where nobody seems to understand what I'm going on about!!! Re: Gypsy Tart - personally I can't stand it, far too sweet but my sister (also living in Yorkshire)adores it and if I take a trip back home I always try to bring one back for her from our childhood bakery. I haven't found it sold anywhere but Kent.
Posted by: Ms C | 16 Oct 2007 09:25:05
How very bizzare! I never realised there were so many nicknames for 'woodlice'! I'm from Berkshire, and I have always known them as cheese logs - very interesting to see that the only other people to call them cheese logs are also from Berkshire! I only found this site as there is currently one wandering around on my living room wall - obviously lost ( he looks like he's having fun though - how weird would it be to be that small?!) Anyway, I started to wonder why they were called cheese logs! The log part I can understand - stretched out they look like logs, but have no resemblance to cheese! Incidently, my parents are from Buckinghamshire and Middlesex and they both call them cheese logs too...I wonder if this is normal for their areas, or whether it's been picked up from living in Berkshire?! Also - what is the cheese logs purpose? I have never worked that out! (Along with several other insects...) Keep smiling!
Posted by: Annie | 1 Nov 2007 20:48:55
So glad to find other people who call woodlice "cheesybobs" after years of getting strange looks!! I guess this is all down to my parents who are Surrey born and bred (Guildford). Is it really just a Surrey/Guildford thing?? Though I am proud to be doing my bit to get the cheesybob recognised in NE Hampshire...
Posted by: swaneekazoo | 24 Nov 2007 23:04:02
How funny, so many people talking about these bugs. And how funny so many people looking them up on the internet!?
I'm looking them up because we have a bit of a plague of them right now on our front lawn, and I want to know how to bump a few off without killing the dog.
They are called slaters where I come from – Adelaide Hills, South Australia.
And people on this planet call them Cheesy Bugs, how cute. The cheese bit worries me thought. I accidentally bit into an earwig once and it was bitter.
I saw on TV that museums use boxes of slaters in part of the process of cleaning up skeletons before they put the skeletons on show.
But right now the slaters look like they are grazing on the only small green patch of lawn we can keep alive during water restrictions, so they have to go.
Posted by: belinda | 20 Dec 2007 12:28:53
my daughter and her boyfrield have just been discussing the little things and her laughtered at her calling them cheesy bugs as he just calls them woodlice, he comes from middlesborough and we come from aldershot.
my family have always known them as cheesy bugs asked my father and he called them wood lice, so i dont know when it changed, just asked my husband and his mother who came from london always called them
cheesy bugs but his father called them wood lice or used the latin word for them.so it looks like the fairer sex like the term cheesy bug...
Posted by: linda | 30 Dec 2007 22:00:30
Gutes Neues Jahr 2008.!
Posted by: BridgetAnjellla | 12 Jan 2008 11:51:35
Fantastic! My wife and I have been having this argument for years. I am a Berkshire lad and have always called them 'cheese logs'; my wife is from Sandwich, Kent, and has always called them 'monkey peas'. needless to say when we fist encountered the critters as a couple we both thought the other mad - I have never heard of monkey peas and thought cheese log to be a perfectly acceptable (and nationally recognised) name for wood lice - oh how wrong!
On the 'gypsy tart' vein, I had a taste of this delight in a pub in Mersham, Kent and was assured by the chef that it was a dish consisting solely of condensed milk and brown sugar and was uniquely Kentish.
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Posted by: COMPRARVIAGRABARATO | 10 Feb 2008 14:46:42
Hey they are Peabugs!! I come from the Sittingbourne/Medway area of Kent, and everyone here knows they are Peabugs!!
My other half thinks I'm mad, and didn't know what the hell I was talking about, when I first mentioned them...followed by rolling laughter. I thought it was the only nickname for woodlice!! He just call them Woodlice.
Can't understand Cheesy Bugs, thats just plain strange!! I've never heard them called that and I've lived in Kent all my life.
Posted by: Mistreyus1 | 1 Mar 2008 08:30:18
Hi there, I'm originally from Folkestone in Kent and they are monkeypeas, don't know why though. Also gypsy tart- mmmmmmmmm, lovely. I now live in northwest Scotland and nobody knows about gypsy tart it most def is a Kentish delight.
Posted by: mandy | 2 Apr 2008 18:40:34
I'm from West Yorkshire and my mum always calls them 'LeatherJackets' Makes me laugh.
Posted by: Cee | 11 Apr 2008 01:09:18
Can we please lose the dodgy Spanish-speaking fake-viagra salesman? Cheese log/gypsy tart-related comments only, please...
Posted by: mike and pam | 12 Apr 2008 23:52:22
In North Devon they are referred to as chuggy pigs or chuggy pegs. However in our family they are called Chicky pigs.
Posted by: joe | 25 May 2008 18:01:27
Firstly - this thread has been going for over four years!!! how insane!!!
Secondly - I'm from Medway/Rochester in Kent and they are MonkeyPeas, sometimes PeaBugs, but my Mum grew up in Whitstable/Canterbury area of Kent.
It wasn't until I was in Australia that on decalring my love for these Monkey Peas that I got stange looks, which led me to try and find English people to back me up - sadly they didn't.
Oh to then find out that its local to kent. who knew!
they are and always shall be monkey peas.... and the oxford dictionary, apparently, lists MonkeyPease as some kind of woudlouse!!
Posted by: MonkeyPea | 30 May 2008 10:29:24
I also call them Cheesy Bugs and was hoping to find out why they were called this!
And gypsy tart is the best thing you will ever taste in your life!!!! My word I have to go and get one today!!! Yummy!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Michelle | 31 May 2008 08:53:57
I also call them Cheesy Bugs and was hoping to find out why they were called this! I'm from Kent/south east London
And gypsy tart is the best thing you will ever taste in your life!!!! My word I have to go and get one today!!! Yummy!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Michelle | 31 May 2008 08:54:57
is this web site made of cheese!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE CHEESE
Posted by: cheese lover. | 10 Jun 2008 10:35:19
is this web site made of cheese!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE CHEESE
Posted by: cheese lover. | 10 Jun 2008 10:35:33
i love cheese. do you? cheesy feet rule!!!!!!!ello!!!! :]
Posted by: cheesy feet | 10 Jun 2008 10:38:07
