Bug Guide Animal Crossing New Horizons
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Having navigated through the vastness of the internet to this precise folio, we're going to guess that y'all're after information about bugs in Beast Crossing: New Horizons. Beneath you will find a complete Brute Crossing: New Horizons insect list and gallery featuring every bug, insect and collectable critter in the game, plus some basic problems-catching tips.

There are a total of fourscore bugs to grab in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The creepy crawlies in this guide are listed in the society they announced in Animal Crossing: New Horizons' Critterpedia, and each entry includes a picture, the fourth dimension of day/year it is bachelor (in each hemisphere), the spawn location and the selling price you'll get if you take your catch to Nook'southward Cranny.

Elsewhere you can discover out every brute (including fish) leaving at the end of the month. If yous're catching fish, too, you may desire to check out our Brute Crossing: New Horizons fish guide with however information every bit below, except for fish and marine life instead of bugs, insects, arachnids and assorted creepy crawlies.

Don't forget to check out our exhaustive Animal Crossing: New Horizons guide for more tips and tricks!

Call up: Certain bugs and fish volition exist leaving Animal Crossing: New Horizons (temporarily) at the end of the calendar month, so you lot'll want to take hold of those before they go out.

How to grab bugs in Brute Crossing: New Horizons

Equipment you need

To catch bugs y'all'll need a net. You will need the following ingredients to arts and crafts a Flimsy Net:

  • x5 tree branch

However, serious bug catchers will want to upgrade that to a proper Net. To do so, y'all'll need:

  • x1 Flimsy Net
  • x1 iron asset

Once you've got the gear, it's time to head out and grab some bugs.

Fauna Crossing: New Horizons Problems Catching Tips

Concur downwardly 'A' to become wearisome

The vast bulk of bugs will scarper if you get as well shut or run near them, so if yous run into a bug it is best to ready your net and arroyo slowly. Holding down the 'A' button will put you into a tedious creep and your net volition swing when you release the button. Creep up, aim, release. Yes!

Catching Bugs Animal Crossing New Horizons
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Alternatively, hold 'B' to get fast

However, some bugs — wasps, tarantulas and scorpions, for case — won't run abroad. In fact, they'll give hunt and bite/sting you given the opportunity. In that location'll be no lasting damage beyond a swollen face or a restart at your house, only you lot'll have missed the opportunity to catch the critter.

Our advice when it comes to these bugs is to be bold. You can run by holding 'B' and putting some distance betwixt you and your prey before turning around and striking with your cyberspace. You'll need a proficient command of the controls, but after a few hours of do with the net yous'll accept a much amend sense of the timing and the right swing distance required to handbag a issues. You lot'll withal go bitten every so often, simply soon you'll be running towards tarantulas when you see them and swiping immediately, as opposed to starting a Benny Loma-style chase effectually your island.

Where can yous find bugs and insects in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?

Bugs can be institute all around the island: sitting on or hiding in copse, hiding nether rocks, buzzing effectually certain items or flowers, skating over the surface of h2o or but flying around in the air. Nosotros've listed the exact locations you'll be able to find the critters below, along with the specific time of day (and time of twelvemonth for your hemisphere).

Animal Crossing: New Horizons Complete Issues List - Every insect in the Critterpedia

ane. Common Butterfly

  • Fourth dimension: 4am - 7pm
  • Calendar month (Hemisphere): Sep-Jun (N) / Mar-December (Southward)
  • Location: Air
  • Sell cost: 160 Bells

two. Yellowish Butterfly

  • Fourth dimension: 4am - 7pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): Sep-Jun (Northward) / Mar-Apr, Sep-Dec (South)
  • Location: Air
  • Sell price: 160 Bells

3. Tiger Butterfly

  • Fourth dimension: 4am - 7pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): Mar-Sep (N) / Sep-Mar (Southward)
  • Location: Air
  • Sell toll: 240 Bells

4. Peacock Butterfly

  • Time: 4am - 7pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): Mar-Jun (N) / Sep-Dec (S)
  • Location: Air (around hybrid flowers)
  • Sell price: 2,500 Bells

5. Common Bluebottle

  • Time: 4am - 7pm
  • Calendar month (Hemisphere): Apr-Aug (N) / Oct-Feb (Southward)
  • Location: Air
  • Sell cost: 300 Bells

half-dozen. Paper Kite Butterfly

  • Fourth dimension: 8am - 7pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): All year
  • Location: Air
  • Sell cost: 1,000 Bells

7. Great Purple Emperor

  • Time: 4am - 7pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): May-Aug (Northward) / Dec-Mar (Southward)
  • Location: Air
  • Sell price: 3,000 Bells

eight. Monarch Butterfly

  • Time: 4am - 5pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): Sep-Nov (N) / Mar-May (S)
  • Location: Air
  • Sell price: 140 Bells

9. Emperor Butterfly

  • Time: 5pm - 8am
  • Calendar month (Hemisphere): Jun-Sep, December-Mar (both)
  • Location: Air
  • Sell price: four,000 Bells

10. Agrias Butterfly

  • Fourth dimension: 8am - 5pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): Apr-Sep (Due north) / Oct-Mar (Due south)
  • Location: Air
  • Sell price: 3,000 Bells

11. Rajah Brooke'due south Birdwing

  • Time: 8am - 5pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): April-Sep, Dec-Feb (North) / Jun-Aug, Oct-Mar (Southward)
  • Location: Air
  • Sell price: ii,500 Bells

12. Queen Alexandra's Birdwing

  • Time: 8am - 4pm
  • Calendar month (Hemisphere): May-Sep (North) / November-Mar (S)
  • Location: Air
  • Sell price: four,000 Bells

13. Moth

  • Time: 7pm - 4am
  • Month (Hemisphere): All year
  • Location: Air (around light sources)
  • Sell cost: 130 Bells

14. Atlas Moth

  • Time: 7pm - 4am
  • Month (Hemisphere): April-Sep (North) / Oct-Mar (S)
  • Location: On trees
  • Sell price: iii,000 Bells

fifteen. Madagascan Sunset Moth

  • Time: 8am - 4pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): Apr-Sep (N) / October-Mar (South)
  • Location: Air
  • Sell price: 2,500 Bells

16. Long Locust

  • Fourth dimension: 8am - 7pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): Apr-Nov (North) / Nov-May (S)
  • Location: Ground
  • Sell price: 200 Bells

17. Migratory Locust

  • Time: 8am - 7pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): Aug-Nov (N) / Feb-May (S)
  • Location: Ground
  • Sell price: 600 Bells

xviii. Rice Grasshopper

  • Time: 8am - 7pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): Aug-Nov (North) / February-May (S)
  • Location: Ground
  • Sell toll: 160 Bells

nineteen. Grasshopper

  • Time: 8am - 5pm
  • Calendar month (Hemisphere): Jul-Sep (N) / Jan-Mar (S)
  • Location: Ground
  • Sell price: 160 Bells

20. Cricket

  • Fourth dimension: 5pm - 8am
  • Month (Hemisphere): Sep-Nov (North) / Mar-May (Southward)
  • Location: Footing
  • Sell price: 130 Bells

21. Bell Cricket

  • Time: 5pm - 8am
  • Month (Hemisphere): Sep-Oct (Northward) / Mar-Apr (S)
  • Location: Ground
  • Sell cost: 430 Bells

22. Mantis

  • Time: 8am - 5pm
  • Calendar month (Hemisphere): Mar-Nov (Northward) / Sep-May (S)
  • Location: On flowers
  • Sell price: 430 Bells

23. Orchid Mantis

  • Time: 8am - 5pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): Mar-Nov (N) / Sep-May (Due south)
  • Location: On flowers (white)
  • Sell cost: 2,400 Bells

24. Honeybee

  • Fourth dimension: 8am - 5pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): Mar-Jul (North) / Sep-Jan (S)
  • Location: Air (around flowers)
  • Sell price: 200 Bells

25. Wasp

  • Time: All day and nighttime
  • Month (Hemisphere): All year
  • Location: Trees (shake them)
  • Sell toll: 2,500 Bells

26. Brown Cicada

  • Fourth dimension: 8am - 5pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): Jul-Aug (Northward) / Jan-Feb (S)
  • Location: On trees
  • Sell price: 250 Bells

27. Robust Cicada

  • Fourth dimension: 8am - 5pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): Jul-Aug (N) / Jan-Feb (S)
  • Location: On trees
  • Sell toll: 300 Bells

28. Behemothic Cicada

  • Fourth dimension: 8am - 5pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): Jul-Aug (Due north) / Jan-Feb (South)
  • Location: On copse
  • Sell cost: 500 Bells

29. Walker Cicada

  • Fourth dimension: 8am - 5pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): Aug-Sep (North) / Feb-Mar (South)
  • Location: On trees
  • Sell price: 400 Bells

xxx. Evening Cicada

  • Time: 4am - 8am, 4pm - 7pm
  • Calendar month (Hemisphere): Jul-Aug (N) / January-Feb (S)
  • Location: On trees
  • Sell toll: 550 Bells

31. Cicada Crush

  • Time: All mean solar day and night
  • Calendar month (Hemisphere): Jul-Aug (Due north) / January-Feb (S)
  • Location: On trees
  • Sell price: 10 Bells

32. Crimson Dragonfly

  • Time: 8am - 7pm
  • Calendar month (Hemisphere): Sep-Oct (Due north) / Mar-Apr (Due south)
  • Location: Air
  • Sell price: 180 Bells

33. Darner Dragonfly

  • Fourth dimension: 8am - 5pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): Apr-Oct (Due north) / Oct-April (Due south)
  • Location: Air
  • Sell price: 230 Bells

34. Banded Dragonfly

  • Fourth dimension: 8am - 5pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): May-Oct (Northward) / Nov-Apr (S)
  • Location: Air
  • Sell price: four,500 Bells

35. Damselfly

  • Time: All twenty-four hours and nighttime
  • Month (Hemisphere): Nov-Feb (N) / May-Aug (Due south)
  • Location: Air
  • Sell price: 500 Bells

36. Firefly

  • Time: 7pm - 4am
  • Month (Hemisphere): Jun (N) / Dec (Due south)
  • Location: Air
  • Sell price: 300 Bells

37. Mole Cricket

  • Time: All 24-hour interval and night
  • Month (Hemisphere): Nov-May (N) / May-Nov (Due south)
  • Location: Clandestine (move to where it is loudest and dig)
  • Sell price: 500 Bells

38. Pondskater

  • Fourth dimension: 8am - 7pm
  • Calendar month (Hemisphere): May-Sep (N) / Nov-Mar (S)
  • Location: On ponds
  • Sell price: 130 Bells

39. Diving Beetle

  • Time: 8am - 7pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): May-Sep (North) / Nov-Mar (S)
  • Location: On ponds and rivers
  • Sell price: 800 Bells

40. Giant Water Bug

  • Time: 8am - 7pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): Apr-Sep (N) / Oct-Mar (S)
  • Location: On ponds and rivers
  • Sell price: 2,000 Bells

41. Stinkbug

  • Fourth dimension: All day and nighttime
  • Month (Hemisphere): Mar-Oct (Due north) / Sep-Apr (S)
  • Location: Flowers
  • Sell price: 120 Bells

42. Man-faced Stink Problems

  • Fourth dimension: 7pm - 8am
  • Month (Hemisphere): Mar-Oct (Northward) / Sep-Apr (Due south)
  • Location : Flowers
  • Sell price: ane,000 Bells

43. Ladybug

  • Fourth dimension: 8am - 5pm
  • Calendar month (Hemisphere): Mar-Jun, Oct (N) / Sep-Dec, April (South)
  • Location: Flowers
  • Sell price: 200 Bells

44. Tiger Beetle

  • Time: All day and nighttime
  • Month (Hemisphere): February-November (N) / Aug-Apr (S)
  • Location: Basis
  • Sell price: 1,500 Bells

45. Jewel Beetle

  • Time: All day and night
  • Calendar month (Hemisphere): Apr-Aug (N) / Oct-Feb (South)
  • Location: Tree stumps
  • Sell price: 2,400 Bells

46. Violin Beetle

  • Time: All day and night
  • Month (Hemisphere): May-Jun, Sep-Nov (N) / Nov-Dec, Mar-May (Southward)
  • Location: Tree stumps
  • Sell price: 450 Bells

47. Citrus Long-horned Beetle

  • Time: All day and night
  • Month (Hemisphere): All year
  • Location: Tree stumps
  • Sell price: 350 Bells

48. Rosalia Batesi Protrude

  • Time: All day and night
  • Calendar month (Hemisphere): May-Sep (N) / November-Mar (S)
  • Location: Tree stumps
  • Sell price: 3,000 Bells

49. Blue Weevil Protrude

  • Fourth dimension: All day and night
  • Month (Hemisphere): Jul-Aug (N) / Jan-February (Southward)
  • Location: On palm copse
  • Sell cost: 800 Bells

50. Dung Protrude

  • Time: All mean solar day and dark
  • Month (Hemisphere): Dec-Feb (North) / Jun-Aug (South)
  • Location: Footing (rolling snowballs)
  • Sell price: 3,000 Bells

51. World-dull Dung Beetle

  • Time: All day and nighttime
  • Calendar month (Hemisphere): Jul-Sep (N) / Jan-Mar (S)
  • Location: Ground
  • Sell price: 300 Bells

52. Scarab Beetle

  • Time: 11pm - 8am
  • Month (Hemisphere): Jul-Aug (N) / Jan-Feb (Southward)
  • Location: On copse
  • Sell price: 10,000 Bells

53. Drone Protrude

  • Time: All twenty-four hours and nighttime
  • Month (Hemisphere): Jun-Aug (N) / Dec-Feb (S)
  • Location: On trees
  • Sell toll: 200 Bells

54. Goliath Protrude

  • Time: 5pm - 8am
  • Month (Hemisphere): Jun-Sep (N) / Dec-Mar (S)
  • Location: On palm copse
  • Sell toll: 8,000 Bells

55. Saw Stag

  • Fourth dimension: All day and night
  • Month (Hemisphere): Jul-Aug (N) / Jan-Feb (S)
  • Location: On copse
  • Sell price: two,000 Bells

56. Miyama Stag

  • Fourth dimension: All day and nighttime
  • Month (Hemisphere): Jul-Aug (Due north) / Jan-Feb (S)
  • Location: On trees
  • Sell cost: ane,000 Bells

57. Giant Stag

  • Time: 11pm - 8am
  • Month (Hemisphere): Jul-Aug (N) / Jan-Feb (Southward)
  • Location: On trees
  • Sell toll: ten,000 Bells

58. Rainbow Stag

  • Fourth dimension: 7pm - 8am
  • Month (Hemisphere): Jun-Sep (N) / December-Mar (S)
  • Location: On trees
  • Sell toll: 6,000 Bells

59. Cyclommatus Stag

  • Time: 5pm - 8am
  • Month (Hemisphere): Jul-Aug (N) / January-February (S)
  • Location: On palm trees
  • Sell price: 8,000 Bells

60. Golden Stag

  • Time: 5pm - 8am
  • Month (Hemisphere): Jul-Aug (N) / Jan-Feb (Due south)
  • Location: On palm copse
  • Sell price: 12,000 Bells

61. Giraffe Stag

  • Time: 5pm - 8am
  • Calendar month (Hemisphere): Jul-Aug (N) / Jan-February (S)
  • Location: On palm trees
  • Sell cost: 12,000 Bells

62. Horned Dynastid

  • Time: 5pm - 8am
  • Calendar month (Hemisphere): Jul-Aug (N) / January-February (S)
  • Location: On trees
  • Sell price: i,350 Bells

63. Horned Atlas

  • Fourth dimension: 5pm - 8am
  • Calendar month (Hemisphere): Jul-Aug (N) / Jan-Feb (South)
  • Location: On palm copse
  • Sell price: eight,000 Bells

64. Horned Elephant

  • Fourth dimension: 5pm - 8am
  • Month (Hemisphere): Jul-Aug (N) / January-Feb (S)
  • Location: On palm trees
  • Sell price: 8,000 Bells

65. Horned Herucles

  • Fourth dimension: 5pm - 8am
  • Month (Hemisphere): Jul-Aug (N) / Jan-Feb (Due south)
  • Location: On palm trees
  • Sell price: 12,000 Bells

66. Walking Stick

  • Time: 4am - 8am, 5pm - 7pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): Jul-November (N) / Jan-May (S)
  • Location: On copse
  • Sell price: 600 Bells

67. Walking Leaf

  • Fourth dimension: All day and night
  • Month (Hemisphere): Jul-Aug (N) / Jan-Mar (Southward)
  • Location: Effectually trees (camouflaged equally a piece of furniture leafage)
  • Sell price: 600 Bells

68. Bagworm

  • Time: All mean solar day and nighttime
  • Calendar month (Hemisphere): All yr
  • Location: Trees (shake them)
  • Sell price: 600 Bells

69. Emmet

  • Time: All day and nighttime
  • Month (Hemisphere): All year
  • Location: Ground (attracted by spoiled turnips)
  • Sell price: 80 Bells

70. Hermit Crab

  • Fourth dimension: 7pm - 8am
  • Calendar month (Hemisphere): All year
  • Location: Beach
  • Sell price: ane,000 Bells

71. Wharf Roach

  • Time: All day and night
  • Month (Hemisphere): All yr
  • Location: Rocky headland on the embankment
  • Sell price: 200 Bells

72. Fly

  • Time: All day and nighttime
  • Month (Hemisphere): All twelvemonth
  • Location: On rubbish items
  • Sell price: sixty Bells

73. Mosquito

  • Time: 5pm - 4am
  • Month (Hemisphere): Jun-Sep (N) / Dec-Mar (Southward)
  • Location: Air
  • Sell price: 130 Bells

74. Flea

  • Fourth dimension: All twenty-four hours and dark
  • Month (Hemisphere): Apr-Nov (Due north) / Oct-May (S)
  • Location: On island residents
  • Sell price: seventy Bells

75. Snail

  • Fourth dimension: All mean solar day and night
  • Month (Hemisphere): All year
  • Location: On rocks or shrubs (when information technology rains)
  • Sell cost: 250 Bells

76. Pill Bug

  • Time: 11pm - 4pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): Sep-Jun (N) / Mar-Dec (Due south)
  • Location: Rocks (hit them)
  • Sell price: 250 Bells

77. Centipede

  • Time: 4pm - 11pm
  • Month (Hemisphere): Sep-Jun (N) / Mar-Dec (S)
  • Location: Rocks (hitting them)
  • Sell price: 300 Bells

78. Spider

  • Fourth dimension: 7pm - 8am
  • Month (Hemisphere): All twelvemonth
  • Location: Trees (milk shake them)
  • Sell price: 480 Bells

79. Tarantula

  • Time: 7pm - 4am
  • Month (Hemisphere): Nov-April (N) / May-October (S)
  • Location: Basis
  • Sell price: viii,000 Bells

80. Scorpion

  • Time: 7pm - 4am
  • Month (Hemisphere): May-Oct (N) / Nov-April (S)
  • Location: Ground
  • Sell toll: 8,000 Bells

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