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HSK
injurious insect / pest
HSK 7-9
blunderer / bungler
stinkbug
water flea (small crustacean of genus Daphnia)
caterpillar
roundworm; ascarid; (esp.) Ascaris lumbricoides, a human parasite / (fig.) person who knows what another person is thinking; a mind reader
pest / evildoer
boring insect / snout moth's larva (Aphomia gullaris or Plodia interpuncuella or Heliothus armigera etc), major agricultural pest
horse roundworm / parascaris equorum
insect / CL: 隻|只, ,
HSK 7-9
caterpillar
parasite (biology) / (fig.) freeloader
plant diseases and insect pests
Toxoplasma gondii
seven-spotted ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata)
pink bollworm / Pectinophora gassypiella
schistosoma
moth / harmful person / vermin
greenfly (Aphis spp.) / aphid
imago (adult, sexually mature insect, the final stage of its development)
sandworm
the Beatles (1960s UK pop group)
beetle
beetle larva
tiger
to swat an insect / to get rid of intestinal parasite with drugs
pill bug; roly-poly
a slug / sb with a runny nose
worm
seasonal insect (e.g. cicada)
insect that eats into wood, books, clothes etc / fig. vermin
tick (the parasitic arachnid)
locust
nematode
beetle
firefly / glowworm / lightning bug
pitiful creature / wretch
insecticide
ladybug / ladybird
Toxoplasma gondii
yes-man / opinionless person
poisonous insect (or spider etc); venomous snake / (slang) junkie
beneficial insect
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  *蟲* | 蟲* | *蟲
lower form of animal life, including insects, insect larvae, worms and similar creatures / CL: 條|条, 隻|只 / (fig.) person with a particular undesirable characteristic
mealworm (Tenebrio molitor)
mosquito
brown marmorated stinkbug (BMSB)
bedbug (Cimex lectularius) / tick
trilobite
stinkbug
trichlorfon (C4H8Cl3O4P), organophosphate insecticide; also called dipterex
naiad / larva / developmental stage of insect
amoeba / ameba
larva
benthic foraminifera
flatworm
bookworm
reptile / (Internet) web crawler
plasmodium (malaria parasite)
Trichoplax adhaerens (biology)
28-spotted ladybird / hadda beetle / Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata
digenetic trematode worm (i.e. from Order Digenea 複殖目|复殖目)
armyworm (Mythimna separata)
giant stag beetle (Dorcus titanus)
sex maniac
woodlouse (suborder Oniscidea within the order Isopoda) / a.k.a. roly-poly, pill bug, sow bug etc
swindler / conman
stag beetle (generic term for the beetles in the family of lucanidae)
to repel insects; to deworm
tapeworm (Taenia solium)
blunderer / bungler / also written 糊塗蟲|糊涂虫
Protura (soil dwelling primitive hexapod)
radiolarian (single-celled animal)
cotton bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera)
mealworm (Tenebrio molitor)
rice weevil / (fig.) sponger / parasite
Onchocerca volvulus, the filarial parasite worm causing "river blindness" or onchocerciasis, the second most common cause of blindness in humans
Toxoplasma gondii
(entomology) nymph
amoeba / (fig.) sb or sth that is highly adaptable or changeable
beef tapeworm
centipede
army worm (e.g. Mythimna separata or Leucania separata etc, major cereal pests)
maggot
trematoda / fluke / trematode worm, approx 6000 species, mostly parasite, incl. on humans
Chinese white wax bug (Ericerus pela)
"eel worm", a parasitic worm carrying meningitis
Giardia lamblia protozoan parasite that inhabits the gut
whipworm
flying insect / winged insect
Internet addict
weevil; snout beetle
lit. bum beetle / sb who tags along / shadow / sycophant
foraminifera
spider beetle
ground beetle
Euglena (genus of single-celled plant)
trypanosome
weevil / snout beetle
slug

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