Dialect Survey Results

What do you call the little gray creature (that looks like an insect but is actually a crustacean) that rolls up into a ball when you touch it?

http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/staticmaps/q_74.html

Who the hell calls this a "basketball bug"?

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bill said:

on a related note, i recently somehow ran across this: http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/02mexico/logs/oct13/oct13.html

when i see crustaceans that roll themselves up into protective balls, i think of you.

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