In our rural part of Surrey its called a Cheese Bug.
Down Devon way it’s a Chiggy Pig.
What about your neck of the woods?

Oniscus asellus

Or Woodlouse if I’ve been formally introduced

a woodlouse.

http://www.hants.gov.uk/rh/garden-explorer/03n.html

slater.

Woodlouse. I believe our American cousins call them pillbugs, though I could be wrong.

Slater is the common nickname up here but as kids my Brother and I called them Tanks.

Slater 🙂

Moch y coed

Brian.

looks like a Nigel to me.

Fascinating fact – they’re crustaceans, like crabs and lobsters and that. Probably not good eating though but then again I haven’t tried.

Yummy, after boiling and adding a little alioli

EDIT: beaten to it

Surely depends on what they want to be called? Have you tried introducing yourself and asking what their name is?

I believe our American cousins call them pillbugs, though I could be wrong.

Pillbug specifically refers to the ones that can roll up. Flatter ones (like pictured) can’t do that. We just call em woodlice around here.

It’s a JPG.

Woodlice are known as Grammer (grandma) snails down in Cornwall.

Probably not good eating

I haven’t tried but as above boiled they are supposed to taste like shrimp/prawns

Dad used to call them Cheese Bobs.
(he was from Suffolk originally, but also lived in Surrey and Yorkshire before I came along)

They have gills doncha know? This is why they like moist conditions as they need to moisture to be able to breathe.

Fascinating little things.

To my 20 month old son that would be a “SPYDDRRR” along with anything else that crawls, flys, hops, or looks like a speck of dirt on his hand – unless it is man-made in which case it is a “HELICOP-TOP-TOP”.

Miss njee20 calls them cheesy bugs, I’ve only ever known them as woodlice.

Baby robin?

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I used to call them sticklebacks, I don’t think anyone else did.
‘orrible things.

my 15 month old son calls them bees of FFFs, as with any insect that bears some (or no) similarity to a bee or a fly.

Pocket Armadillo

Like Drac says, ‘Tanks’ in the North East.

“Woodlouse” – me

“Gramiasil” – Cornish folks

“God’s little Pigs” – My Gran

Mini-armadillo or woodlouse

Slaters

Chucky-Pig in Glaarrssterrshiyer

Didn’t fearnley-whittingstall cook up some woodlouse fritters in his early days on TV?

Woodlouse Fritter recipe. God bless the Internets!

Slaters

thepurist I think you owe it to us all to try that recipe.

Yep Slaters up here in Glasgow

My wife calls them Monkey Peas for some reason.

Slateroe in Orkney

We used to call them Removal Men, as our old cottage was so full of the blighters we thought that one day they might pick the house up and move it.

More usually called woodlouse/lice

sure it’s not a Trilobite?

It looks a lot like what we call pillbugs here in the US, but the ones here are rounder over the back and a dark grey in color (at least here locally)—they do roll up when threatened.