SC - spelling please
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Tue Feb 6 11:26:13 PST 2001
In my childhood, potato bugs were bright green
caterpillars. The rolling-up bugs were called pill bugs,
and this is what leapt to mind when I translated the
passage. But does anyone know of a connection between
these guys and orange trees? No orange trees 'round here.
- --- Nisha Martin <nishamartin at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Down here, potato(e) bugs are little brown beetles
> that eat the potato(e) plants and lay their eggs in
> the ground around them....Roly poly bugs are the
> little buggy things that roll up into balls if you
> touch them.
> Nisha
>
>
>
> Up here in Canada...we call them potatoe bugs (and we
> even spell it
> right...grin)
>
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