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Q: For those bug enthusiasts what types of bugs am I likely to find in China?

I haven't seen butterflies, caterpillars, ladybugs, fireflies. Can't remember the last one I saw. I did see some mosquito's and maybe some spiders are there any more you can name? 

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  I came across a praying mantis on the stairs of my flat once. Cool looking f****r too. He was there later on my way back as well, just much much shorter. Also seen some major big-arse spiders. One was the diameter of a tennis ball. Scared the life out of me, i'm really not a fan of spiders. Stood my ground once when someone set an alsation on me, but one look at a daddy long-legs and I s**t my pants. The bugs that i'm looking for though are the ones that sit in the trees in the summer and rub their legs like crickets. The sound is unbelievable, these things must be huge and there must be millions of them, but I can never spot a single one. Been pissed on by a spider in my sleep, bitten on the ear by a cockroach and drunk centipede wine. Most important thing to remember is don't stomp on cockroaches; if you get a pregnant mother you could end up causing an infestation. Right.....gotta get my boy to sleep, he's bugging me.

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in Texas we called those bugs who rub their legs together 'cicada's',,,,   not sure if that is correct or not,, but is what we called them,, and yeah, they did seem to show up by the millions and such a sound they made....   honestly it brings back memories of some sweet Texas summer's...

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In Canada I hear maybe one at a time singing, in China I hear choirs of them. They look like really big flies. You can eat them, the females are meatier.

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  Actually yeh, my wife used to fry and eat them when she was a kid. Not so much 'cause she thought they were yummy, but because she was skint.

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A lot of cockroaches were killed by me because my roommates did little clean work.  There lives many earthworms in our flower pots at my hometown. It was also really fun to feed the ants with the millets in summer. Sweet childhood memory.

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  I came across a praying mantis on the stairs of my flat once. Cool looking f****r too. He was there later on my way back as well, just much much shorter. Also seen some major big-arse spiders. One was the diameter of a tennis ball. Scared the life out of me, i'm really not a fan of spiders. Stood my ground once when someone set an alsation on me, but one look at a daddy long-legs and I s**t my pants. The bugs that i'm looking for though are the ones that sit in the trees in the summer and rub their legs like crickets. The sound is unbelievable, these things must be huge and there must be millions of them, but I can never spot a single one. Been pissed on by a spider in my sleep, bitten on the ear by a cockroach and drunk centipede wine. Most important thing to remember is don't stomp on cockroaches; if you get a pregnant mother you could end up causing an infestation. Right.....gotta get my boy to sleep, he's bugging me.

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in Texas we called those bugs who rub their legs together 'cicada's',,,,   not sure if that is correct or not,, but is what we called them,, and yeah, they did seem to show up by the millions and such a sound they made....   honestly it brings back memories of some sweet Texas summer's...

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In Canada I hear maybe one at a time singing, in China I hear choirs of them. They look like really big flies. You can eat them, the females are meatier.

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  Actually yeh, my wife used to fry and eat them when she was a kid. Not so much 'cause she thought they were yummy, but because she was skint.

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In Hunan, I've seen Giraffe Stag Beetles (Prosopocoilus giraffa) everywhere. They used to infest the wife's parent's house. She would just rage-smash them against the wall, and discard them.

 

Here's a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopocoilus_giraffa

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whoa thanks for the visual on that bug!

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litter bugs are found everywhere

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from the amount of crap on here since you know who came back I would say Dunn Beetles surprise

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  Who am you know who? You're gonna make me paranoid. It's not Lord Voldemort, is it?

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Do not worry mArtiAn

we all have it's Number

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  Do you have a guilty conchance?

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  I never feel guilty 'cause I never get caught.

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In the south of Guangdong, mosquitoes. Lot's of them. 

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The government have bugs everywhere, and they know everything...

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The biggest bug I saw was Volkswagen Bugs.

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Very happy bugs. There is garbage everywhere and most of the birds that would eat them are dead because of the smog.

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