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This ability gives woodlice in this family their common names of pill bugs [1] or roly polies. [2] Other common names include slaters , potato bugs , butchy boys , [ 3 ] and doodle bugs . [ 4 ] Most species are native to the Mediterranean Basin, while a few species have wider European distributions.
Iridovirus armadillidium1, known formerly as Invertebrate iridescent virus 31 (IIV-31) and informally as isopod iridovirus, is a species of invertebrate iridescent virus in the genus Iridovirus. [2] Oniscidea (commonly known by a variety of names including woodlouse , pillbug , slater , roly-poly , potato bug , et al.) serve as hosts.
Armadillidium vulgare, the common pill-bug, potato bug, common pill woodlouse, roly-poly, slater, doodle bug, or carpenter, is a widespread European species of woodlouse. It is the most extensively investigated terrestrial isopod species. [ 2 ]
Weebles are a range of children's roly-poly toys that was introduced in 1971 [1] by the US toy company Hasbro and currently marketed under their Playskool brand. They are egg-shaped, so tipping one causes a weight located at the bottom-center to be raised. Once released, the Weeble is restored by gravity to an upright position. Weebles have ...
A wooden roly-poly toy. A roly-poly toy, roly-poly doll, round-bottomed doll, tilting doll, tumbler, wobbly man, wobble doll, or kelly is a round-bottomed toy, usually egg-shaped, that tends to right itself when pushed at an angle, and does this in seeming contradiction to how it should fall.
Rolie Polie Olie is an animated television series created by William Joyce, and is produced by Nelvana in co-production with French broadcaster La Cinquième/France 5.It was produced in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Disney Channel/Playhouse Disney in the United States.
Jam roly-poly, a traditional British pudding; Roly Poly (sandwich store chain), a chain of sandwich shops in the United States "Roly Poly" (Bob Wills song) "Roly-Poly" (T-ara song) Roly-Poly (game), an ancestor of Roulette; Roly Poly (horse), thoroughbred racehorse; The Roly Poly Man, a close associate of the Hurdy Gurdy Man in the 1968 song by ...
The rats trying to turn Tom Kitten into a roly-poly pudding. Tom Kitten is a young cat who lives with his mother, Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit, and sisters, Moppet and Mittens, in a house overrun with rats. Her children being an unruly bunch, Mrs. Tabitha puts Moppet and Mittens in a cupboard in order to keep them under control, but Tom Kitten escapes ...