Posted byu/natantantan 2 days ago

What is the bug situation like in China (specifically Chengdu)? Are apartments infested with roaches? What about other insects like spiders caterpillars flys etc. I have an irrational fear of bugs and I was wondering how I'd fare. I'm more specifically talking about bugs like caterpillars or beetles or cicadas. They creep me out 1000x more than a cockroach. Any big insect that flies is the death of me.

中国（特别是成都）的虫害情况如何？公寓里到处都是蟑螂吗？那其他虫子像是蜘蛛、毛虫、苍蝇等的呢？我对虫子有非理性的恐惧，所以我在想该怎么办。更确切地说，我怕的是像毛虫、甲虫或蝉等之类的虫子。它们比蟑螂更吓人1000倍。而任何会飞的大昆虫简直就是我的死穴。

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kanada_kid 28 points·2 days ago

RIP OP

安息吧，楼主。

SleepEatRaveRepeat Ireland 12 points·2 days ago

They were fucking everywhere when I visited in May.

Also fun fact the world's largest flying aquatic insect is from Chengdu

我五月份去的时候丫的到处都是虫子。

顺便说个有趣的事实：世界上最大的水生飞虫就来自成都。（链接配图如下）

oolongvanilla 10 points·1 day ago·edited 1 day ago

Do any of you guys get huge thousand-leggers in your apartments? It's not an everyday thing but I still hate it. I'm sitting on the toilet when all of the sudden I catch a glimpse of this lizard-sized beast slixing as fast as a taxi out of the corner of my eye. It disappears behind my sink and next thing I know this demonic creature is charging full-speed toward my feet looking like it just stepped out of a time portal from the Jurassic period.

你们的公寓里有那种大个的千足虫么？这种虫子不是很常见，但我还是很讨厌它。我当时正坐在马桶上，突然间一个蜥蜴大小的奇怪虫子溜了过来，快得像一辆从街角冲出的出租车。它先是消失在水箱后面，然后这个恶魔生物就开足马力冲着我的脚爬过来，就像从侏罗纪时代穿越过来一样。

Iornukrum European unx 4 points·1 day ago

You mean centipedes? I got bitten once by a 7 cm long one that had crawled into my paper bag with a French baguette (Is Carrefour still a thing in China?). Reached in to grab the bread suddenly a stinging sensation. Pull my hand out a huge centipede is hanging from my hand by its pincers. Cue mindless uncoordinated flailing and reaching for obxts to smash it with but obviously the centipede just laughed and taxied out of sight - to somewhere inside my bedroom! Never saw it again though.

The further south you go the bigger they get too. I was in Wuhan at the time so fairly central. Down in Guangdong they can get twice as long or more I heard.

你是说蜈蚣么？我被一只7厘米长的蜈蚣咬过，它爬进了我装法式面包的纸袋里。（话说家乐福在中国还存在不？）我伸手拿面包一下就被咬了。我拿出手时，一只大蜈蚣正用它的螯夹着我的手指挂在我手上。我手忙脚乱的想拿东西打它，但是显然，那只蜈蚣只是笑了笑，然后就从我的视线里消失，跑到我卧室里去了！虽然我之后再也没见到它。越往南，虫子个越大。我当时住的地方武汉是在中部。听说，广东的蜈蚣能有武汉的两倍长。

oolongvanilla 3 points·1 day ago

Yes house centipedes. We call them thousand leggers where I'm from. I'm very cautious moving around and sitting down and picking things up in my apartment just due to the potential threat of their existence. You never know where they might strike - I even killed one on a train once.

对，家里的蜈蚣。我所在的地方管它们叫千足虫。我在家的时候，走动啊、坐下和拿东西啊都是小心翼翼的，就是怕有这些虫子。你永远不知道它们什么时候会出现在你的视线里。我甚至有次在火车上杀死过一只。

I hear they're actually rather clean and good for pest control including roaches but their speed and appearance and their ability to climb almost anything gives them a huge "nope" from me.

我听说，这些虫子对包括蟑螂在内的害虫有很好的防治作用，实际上它们很干净，但是它们的速度、它们出其不意的登场和它们几乎能爬到任何东西上面的本事，让我要对它们说一个大大的“不”字。

I just moved into a new apartment and I've yet to see them inside yet but the other night I shined my phone flashlight toward the grass outside the building out of curiousity when I saw something big skitter across the ground. It was a not-so-fun-sized house centipede. All I can say is... Winter is coming.

我刚搬进一个新的公寓，还没在公寓里看到过它们，但是有天晚上，我拿手机灯光照向窗户外面的草地，我看到一只巨大的蜈蚣穿过草地。那只蜈蚣的体型大的让你绝对笑不出来。我只能说.....冬天要来了。

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TheMediumPanda 2 points·1 day ago

Before you scare OP half to death I feel like adding that I've lived in Yunnan for 10 years and never seen one.

在你把楼主吓个半死之前，我要追加说明一下，我本人在云南生活了10年，从未看见一只这种虫子。

oolongvanilla 1 point·1 day ago

Yeah I should mention that I've been living in the Northwest.

是的，我应该提前说明下，我住的地方在西北部。

ShittyWeeBrownPoodle 1 point·1 day ago

I hear they're actually rather clean and good for pest control including roaches

Yeah they are - but if you see one then that kind of means you also have roaches or other bugs! And they are also horrifying looking things I agree.

[我听说这种虫子其实很干净而且有助于消灭其他害虫，包括蟑螂。]

确实如此——但是，要是你看到一只，就说明附近肯定有蟑螂或其他害虫！那些虫子看起来也十分吓人呐。

NewluoCN 4 points·2 days ago

It depends on the condition of your apartment.

这要看你公寓的卫生条件了。

natantantan 3 points·2 days ago

Lets say you keep it clean. You won't get giant ass beetles slamming into your windows?

即便保持公寓内干净。难道大屁股的甲壳虫就不会从窗户飞进来了吗？

marmakoide 5 points·1 day ago

Your neighbours would have to keep their place clean and the common areas too. Good luck with that.

你的邻居们也必须要保持他们自己家的卫生，小区里的公共区域也要保持卫生。祝你好运吧。

JustSitDownPlease 1 point·1 day ago

Nope. The giant ass beetles will also be accompanied by giant ass caterpillars and huge ass cicadas.

不会。不止有大屁股的甲壳虫，还有大屁股的毛毛虫以及巨大屁股的蝉。

lambdaq 1 point·1 day ago

just rent newer apartments in high-rises. Don't live in 2-3 floors with trees in your sight.

租一间新一点的高层公寓就好了。千万别住在2-3楼，窗前会有树的那种公寓。

Hairofthe 4 points·1 day ago

Not in Chengdu but I've hardly ever seen any spiders. Cockroaches and mosquitos are the big issue down south. No matter how many holes you block off cockroaches always find a way in somehow. Seem to have it mostly under control in my place now with a combination of traps spray and sealing up every little hole I can find. Still get the occaisional one but they're small. When I first moved in they were everywhere and some of them massive. You say they don't bother you but some cockroaches are huge really fast and sometimes can fly. You'll also see them in restaurants which is off putting. Other insects aren't a big deal in the city I've seen grasshoppers giant wasp like things grasshoppers but they're not very common. There'll be flies around fruit and meat. Out in the wild though anything goes.

我不在成都，但是我也很少看到蜘蛛。蟑螂和蚊子在中国南方很常见。不管你把家里的缝隙堵得多严实，蟑螂总是有办法钻进来。在小强陷阱、杀虫喷雾以及封堵住任何缝隙等多种措施齐下的情况下，我住的地方的蟑螂疫情基本受控了。偶尔还是能看到，不过都是很小的那种。我刚搬进来的时候，到处都是蟑螂，有些还体型巨大。你可以说蟑螂不会主动来咬你，但是有些蟑螂个头好大，跑起来又快，有时候甚至还能飞。有时你在饭店也能看到蟑螂，让人看着就恶心。其他的虫子在城市里倒不多见了，我看到过蚂蚱、大黄蜂一类的虫子，但是并不常见。卖水果和肉食的地方会有苍蝇飞来绕去。在城市以外的田野里，那就什么虫子都有了。

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yomkippur 3 points·1 day ago

In Yunnan we get spiders the size of your hand.

在云南这边，有的蜘蛛和你的手一样大。

TheMediumPanda 1 point·1 day ago

Not inside though. Gotta be real fucking careful walking around in the countryside though. They're not dangerous but it's the stuff of nightmares walking unsuspecting into one of those giant webs with 3-4 huge spiders in them.

在室内倒是没有。但是在乡下的话，走路的时候可要特别的小心哦。它们对人倒是没什么危害， 但是一不小心撞进了有3-4只这么大蜘蛛的网，那可绝对就是噩梦了。

yomkippur 1 point·20 hours ago

Yeaaah I was walking under some trees when a rainstorm hit. One of those things fell onto my wife's head. Real freaky. I'm in Fujian now with huge flying roaches galore.

耶，我正在小树林里散步，突然暴雨来袭。结果一只这样的虫子就掉在我老婆头顶上。吓死人了。我现在人在福建，这边有很多会飞的大蟑螂。

NewluoCN 2 points·2 days ago

Of course.Unless you live in a squalid neighborhood or in the wild.

当然。除非你住在肮脏的街区或者住在野外。

groovebliss United States 2 points·2 days ago

I'm terrified of insects too. On top of that I'm a mosquito magnet. I've lived in Dalian for five months and have surprisingly only encountered a couple of insects in my apartment. One was a beetle and one was a moth. No spiders roaches or caterpillars so far. A cicada did fly directly into my neck the other day as I was walking outside which freaked me out.

我也很怕虫子。而且，我还很吸引蚊子。我在大连住过五个月，出人意料的是在我的公寓里只碰见过两次虫子。一次是甲虫，另外一次是飞蛾。目前为止还没碰到过蜘蛛、蟑螂或毛毛虫。 有一天在外面走着时倒是有只蝉直接飞到我脖颈上了，把我吓得要死。

I prefer hot places to cold but choose cold places to teach English in because the insect situation is usually better.

比起寒冷的地方我还是更喜欢生活在炎热的地方，但是选择要在寒冷的地区教英语，就是因为虫子少很多。

natantantan 1 point·1 day ago

I wonder why insects are so terrifying to some of us. I can understand something like a snake evolutionary but not really an insect. You would think it would be a culture thing since some cultures eat insects but I feel that my fear is both innate and deeply rooted. The absolute worst I think are beetles.

我想知道为什么有些人那么怕虫子。 我倒是能理解人们为什么怕蛇，蛇也是昆虫进化来的，不过已经不算昆虫了。 你可能以为这有文化方面上的原因，因为有些文化中的人们食虫，但是我对昆虫的恐惧既是先天的也是后天造成的。 我认为最吓人的就是甲虫了。

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Gregonar 1 point·2 days ago

Actually the worst bug situation I've seen was in Taiwan. Just be all the pesticides they're not using.

实际上我见过虫害情况最严重的地区就是在台湾了。那实在是把各种杀虫剂使上都没用啊。

smasbut 1 point·2 days ago

I’m in Chongqing which is pretty close by though maybe a bit wetter which might have an impact. Cicadas are everywhere in the trees and my apartments kitchen has a cockroach problem due to all the corners and spaces under the counters that we can’t reach to clean. Luckily most of them are the small kind. The Raid brand cockroach traps we bought at the supermarket were pretty good at killing them. Mosquitos are bad near stagnant water basically the same as back home. No black flies like in rural Canada which is a small mercy.

我在重庆，这边离你要去的地方比较近，就是比那边要潮湿一些，这可能对昆虫的状况有所影响。树上到处都是蝉，我的厨房里也有蟑螂问题，主要是操作台下面的区域和角落清扫不到。 幸运的是大部分都是比较小的那种。我在超市买的雷达蟑螂陷阱杀虫效果不错。在有死水的地方蚊子特别多，情况和我老家那边一样。加拿大那边的乡下倒是没有这边才有的黑苍蝇，实在是万幸。

spartanwanderer 1 point·1 day ago

In my experience you will see a roach every now and then no matter where you live. I keep my apartment very clean and occasionally encounter them. There's nothing you can do when the residents just put their garbage out in the hallway.

以我的经验判断。不论你住在哪都会碰到蟑螂的。 我把公寓打扫得干干净净然而还是偶尔能看到蟑螂。楼里的住户都把垃圾放在楼道里了，所以你采取什么措施也没用。

hapigood 1 point·1 day ago

You're going to somewhere hot and humid and asking if there will be bugs?

Cicadas are OK for BBQ.

你要去的地方炎热又潮湿，哪里还用问有没有虫子？话说，蝉是可以烧烤着吃的哦。

YoYo_Yong 1 point·1 day ago

It's like Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom everywhere.

Enjoy!

这边就像《夺宝奇兵2之魔域奇兵》里的那样。好好“享受”吧！

Somedudeelsewhere European unx 1 point·1 day ago

I can stand the cockroaches but I once found one of those Asian hornet building a nest in my bathroom one morning. I did beat the fucker with a newspaper so it bounced into the wall and closed the bathroom door real quick but it did survive hitting it a few more times as hard as I can and it was still there building the nest not giving a flying fuck. Bought some bug spray and sprayed right at it and still nothing sprayed more times + hitting it and finally found it dead on the floor after a whole day of intense battle.

蟑螂我倒是能忍，但是有天早上我发现有亚洲大黄蜂在我的洗手间里筑了个巢。 我用报纸拍它丫的，结果它就钻进门和墙之间的缝里，我马上就把门关上，还是没碾死它。接着我又用报纸狠狠拍了好几下，结果这货就是赖着不飞走，继续筑巢。我又去买了杀虫剂回来，直接朝它喷，它竟然没事。我继续连喷带拍，终于发现它掉在地上死透了，我整整跟它战斗了一天啊。