Definitions tagged insectos-venezolanos in the street dictionary.
In Venezuela, this is the name for a silverfish, a small wingless insect about 15 to 20mm long with a silvery-gray color that feeds on paper and books. The name comes from its resemblance to armored river fish that stick to rocks, called corronchos or cascarrones (Corronchos are flat, scaly catfish common in South American rivers).
The trazas are going to eat those books, we need to clean them somehow because they are eating them.
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A wild bee that is long, black, and hairy. It nests inside tree trunks in the Venezuelan Plains (Los Llanos), such as the saman, coloradito, or guacimo trees. Its yellow honey is contained in small black wax pouches called botanas, which are harvested during the dry season.
He has guanota moles; this is said when moles are black and hairy.
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A wood-boring beetle or woodworm. While the literal name for the pest, it is used in the State of Guárico, Venezuela, to metaphorically describe the act of something slowly eating away at, eroding, or consuming a person or object.
You will regret it until your conscience starts to carcoma you, which is a common way to say that guilt will slowly eat away at your mind.
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In Venezuela, this is a name for a blood-sucking insect that primarily targets coffee harvest workers. It tends to bite the chest, navel, groin, and behind the ears. In other parts of the country, it is known as a Coloradito (a term used for chiggers or red bugs).
Those mosquitoes that bit you look more like cochivacoas, because they left you all red.
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A term used in Venezuela for a highly venomous brown wasp that has a white ring on its abdomen. It is also known as the horse-killer wasp (avispa mata caballos).
Be careful when you go into that brush, kid, or you might get a Chinata sting.
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Yellowish-white ants found on human corpses in the Lara region of Venezuela. They are also attracted to sugar. (Local belief links their presence in a home to an impending death).
When hormigas de muerto appear in houses, people usually say that someone in the home is about to die.
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In the state of Sucre, Venezuela, this is the name used for termites or wood ants. In other regions of the country, they are called comejen. (Sucre is a coastal state in northeastern Venezuela).
That bed got Jenejene; this means it is making your body itch, even though Jenejene only live in and eat wood.
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A regional term from Pampan, in the Venezuelan Andes, for a type of large ant that nests in decaying logs. It is used as an adjective to describe wooden items that are rotten or worm-eaten.
That table is all Lagrapiona: it indicates that it is rotten.
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Term used in rural Venezuela (specifically in the state of Guárico) for termites or wood-eating insects. Locals distinguish between two varieties: those that live in the ground and those that live in trees or wood.
The bed leg broke, a comején must have eaten it.
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A term used in the Falcón region of Venezuela for a large type of grasshopper. It is bigger than a locust and has orange hind wings.
That garden is full of nothing but chebebe, jumping all over the place.
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A regional name in the Venezuelan Andes, primarily in Trujillo State, for insects that resemble the chipo. In other parts of the country, they are simply called chipos (kissing bugs, which are common vectors for Chagas disease).
Juan got sick because a Coco-julio bit him last night while he was sleeping.
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A pubic louse or crab. In slang, it refers to an extremely annoying person or a tedious, bothersome situation that causes persistent irritation.
Carlos is such a Lladilla. This uses the itching and discomfort caused by the bug as a metaphor for a person's annoying behavior.
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A regional name for a specific type of grasshopper found on Margarita Island (a Caribbean island belonging to Venezuela). The term is often used to describe someone leaping or jumping suddenly when startled.
when I saw that man show up without me noticing I jumped like a machicha.
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In the Venezuelan state of Miranda, this is the common name for a specific insect found on plant leaves and trunks. It is known for moving around with its body covered in tiny particles or debris it finds in its path.
This little bug is where the term manguarear comes from, which is also used in Venezuela to refer to a person who just hangs around doing nothing.
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A term for a flat, parasitic louse fly that clings to pigeons, specifically under their wings. Figuratively, it describes a person who is constantly hovering, clinging to, or pestering someone else, usually out of interest or anticipation. (In Venezuelan folklore, these insects are often called the bird's soul because they abandon the body the moment the pigeon dies.)
When I am cooking sweets, that man is like a Mosca en paloma; this describes someone who is constantly hanging around or hovering over someone else, just like the insect stays on its host.
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A regional name used in Carúpano, Venezuela, for a specific type of stinging wasp.
get that wasp nest away from the door, look, they are yare and those ones sting hard
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A body louse, a whitish and repulsive wingless insect that sucks blood and can transmit typhus. It typically lays eggs in the seams of clothes and wool blankets. (Common in the Venezuelan Andes region).
"take a bath and wash your cochocho well"; a phrase used to tell someone to clean their body crevices or hidden parts, drawing a comparison between body folds and the seams of clothing where these lice hide.
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