蝼蛄 (lóugū) · mole cricket

Measure Word

一只蝼蛄 zhī

HSK 7-9

蝼蛄的前腿像两把小铲子。

Lóugū de qiántuǐ xiàng liǎng bǎ xiǎo chǎnzi.

A mole cricket's front legs look like two little shovels.

HSK 7-9

菜地里有蝼蛄，好多菜苗都被咬断了。

Càidì lǐ yǒu lóugū, hǎoduō càimiáo dōu bèi yǎoduàn le.

There are mole crickets in the vegetable plot, and lots of seedlings have been bitten through.

usage

蝼蛄 is the standard name for this burrowing pest. In the countryside it is often called 土狗 'earth dog', a name that also means a mongrel dog.

蝼 lóu

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