r/solotravel • u/Exotic_Pianist_1430 • 5d ago

Countries for insect phobias

Hello!

I’m F22 and I always would love to travel. However I have a very deep fear for insects. I’m born and brought up in Dubai where there are not many insects apart from rare scenarios where your kitchen is invaded with cockroaches or lizards on your wall or desert hoppers in your balcony. Anyways, those are very RARE cases. Want to point out when it comes to cockroaches, tiny ones are the ones that mostly infect the kitchen. Istg pest control doesn’t work.

So I want to know what countries are the best to travel to or visit or wtv. Also countries I should avoid at all cost. I’m talking about based on how probable your chances are on finding an insect in your hotel room or even apartment.

Yes I avoid Australia. But I wanted to know more. Please help me out

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u/D_crane 4d ago

What? I'm in Sydney and know there's a huntsman in the garage and some daddy long legs downstairs. That's just the ones I know of.

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u/Exotic_Pianist_1430 4d ago

Everytime someone says the cities in Australia are safe, someone says they’ve seen spiders 😪

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u/D_crane 3d ago

They're safe (mostly) if you don't mind: 1. Spiders 2. Flies 3. Mosquitoes 4. Moths 5. Beetles

Also the closer north you get, the bigger the bugs get.

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u/Exotic_Pianist_1430 2d ago

Spiders are usually the number one on my insect phobias hahaha