Random Insect Generator
To generate a set of random insects select how many you would like to see and hit the generate button.
What is this tool?
Insects are one of the most diverse subsets of animals on Earth with roughly 91,000 species currently known to us. Right now it has been estimated that there around 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects alive.
To celebrate these amazing creatures I made this random insect generator, which uses a list of 325 of the most notable insect species from around the world.
If you would like to explore all of the insects to be found within this generator please look at the insect database below:
List of Insects from A-Z
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Apterygote (subclass Apterygota)
acorn and nut weevils (subfamily Curculioninae)
admirals (subfamilies Limentidinae and Nymphalinae)
alderflies (family Sialidae)
alfalfa weevils (Hypera postica)
ambush bugs (subfamily Phymatinae)
anthomyiid flies (family Anthomyiidae)
antlike flower beetles (family Anthicidae)
aphids (family Aphididae)
asparagus beetles (genera Crioceris and Lema)
assassin bugs (family Reduviidae)
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Caddisflies (order Trichoptera)
Cockroaches (order Blattodea)
Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata)
cabbage whites (Pieris rapae and P. brassicae)
carpenter bees (subfamily Xylocopinae)
carpenter moths (family Cossidae)
carpet moth (genus Trichophaga)
carrion beetles (family Silphidae)
casebearing leaf beetles (subfamilies Cryptocephalinae and Lamprosomatinae)
chafers (subfamily Melolonthinae)
chalcids (superfamily Chalcidoidea)
checkered beetles (family Cleridae)
chewing lice (suborder Amblycera and Ischnocera)
chinch bug (Blissus leucopterus)
cicada-killer wasp (Sphecius speciosus)
cicadas (family Cicadidae)
clearwing moths (family Sesiidae)
click beetles (family Elateridae)
cobalt milkweed beetle (C. cobaltinus)
cockchafers (Melolontha melolontha)
comb-clawed beetles (subfamily Alleculinae)
cone-headed grasshopper (subfamily Copiphorinae)
copper butterflies (subfamily Lycaeninae)
coreid bugs (family Coreidae)
cottony-cushion scale (Icerya purchasi)
crane flies (family Tipulidae)
creeping water bugs (family Naucoridae)
crickets (family Gryllidae)
cuckoo wasps (family Chrysididae)
cucumber beetles (genus Diabrotica)
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Diplurans (order Diplura)
Dragonflies and damselflies (order Odonata)
damsel bugs (family Nabidae)
damselflies (suborder Zygoptera)
darkling beetles (family Tenebridae)
deathwatch beetles (family Anobiidae)
dermestid beetles (family Dermestidae)
diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella)
diplurans (order Diplura)
dobsonflies (family Corydalidae)
dogbane beetle (C. auratus)
dragonflies (suborder Anisoptera)
driver ants (subfamily Dorylinae)
dung beetles (subfamily Scarabinae)
dung flies (family Scatophagidae)
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Earwigs (order Dermaptera)
eastern Hercules beetle (Dynastes tityus)
ensign wasps (family Evaniidae)
ermine moths (family Yponomeutidae)
euglossine bees (tribe Euglossini)
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Fleas (order Siphonaptera)
feather-winged beetles (family Ptiliidae)
fig wasps (family Agaonidae)
fire ants (genus Solenopsis)
fireflies (family Lampyridae)
flat bark beetles (family Cucujidae)
flat bugs (family Aradidae)
flat grain beetles (family Silvanidae)
flea beetles (subfamily Alticinae)
flesh flies (family Sarcophagidae)
flour moth (Ephestia kuehniella)
flower bugs (family Anthocoridae)
flower chafers (subfamily Cetoniinae)
footman moths (subfamily Lithosiinae)
forester moths (family Zyganidae)
frit flies (family Chloropidae)
fritillaries (multiple genera)
froghopper (family Cercopidae)
fruit flies (families Trypetidae and Drosophilidae)
fruitworm beetles (family Byfuridae)
fungus gnats (family Sciaridae and Mycetophilidae)
fungus weevils (family Anthribidae)
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Gladiator bugs (order Mantophasmatodea)
gall midges (family Cecidomyiidae or Itonididae)
gall wasps (family Cynipidae)
gelechiid moths (family Gelechiidae)
geometrid moths (family Geometridae)
giant water bugs (family Belostomatidae)
gossamer-winged butterflies (family Lycaenidae)
grain weevil (Sitophilus granarius)
grape phylloxera (P. vitifoliae)
grasshoppers (families Acridae and Tettigoniidae)
ground beetles (family Carabidae)
ground pearl (genus Margarodes)
gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar)
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Hemipterans (order Hemiptera)
Hessian fly (Mayetiola destructor)
Homopterans (order Homoptera)
hairstreaks (subfamily Theclinae)
hairy fungus beetles (family Mycetophagidae)
harlequin beetles (Acrocinus longimanus)
harlequin cabbage bug (Murgantia histrionica)
harvester ant (multiple genera)
harvesters (subfamily Miletinae)
hawk moths (family Sphingidae)
hister beetles (family Histeridae)
honey ants (multiple genera)
horn flies (Haematobia irritans)
horntails (family Siricidae)
horse flies (family Tabanidae)
houseflies (Musca domestica)
hover flies (family Syrphidae)
human louse (Pediculus humanus)
humpbacked flies (family Phoridae)
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Ice bugs (order Grylloblatodea)
ichneumons (family Ichneumonidae)
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Japanese beetle (Popillia japonica)
Jerusalem crickets (subfamily Stenopelmatinae)
June beetles (genus Phyllophaga)
jumping plant louse (family Psyllidae)
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Lacewings or neuropterans (order Neuroptera)
Lice (order Phthiraptera)
lace bugs (family Tingidae)
ladybugs (family Coccinellidae)
lanternfly (Lanternaria phosphorea)
leaf beetles (family Chrysomelidae)
leaf insects (family Phyllidae)
leaf roller moths (family Tortricidae)
leaf-cutter bees (family Megachilidae)
leaf-rolling grasshoppers (subfamily Gryllacridinae)
leaf-rolling weevils (family Attelabidae)
leafcutter ants (tribe Attini)
leafhoppers (family Cicadellidae)
leopard moth (Zeuzera pyrina)
lizard beetles (family Languriidae)
long-horned beetles (family Cerambycidae)
long-horned grasshoppers or katydids (family Tettigoniidae)
long-legged flies (family Dolichopodidae)
louse flies (family Hippoboscidae)
lygaeid bugs (family Lygaeidae)
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March flies (family Bibionidae)
Mayflies (order Ephemoptera)
Megalopterans (order Megaloptera)
mantispid (family Mantispidae)
marsh flies (family Sciomyzidae)
marsh treaders (family Hydrometridae)
meadow grasshoppers (subfamily Conocephalinae)
mealybugs (family Pseudococcidae)
metallic wood-boring beetles (family Buprestidae)
metalmarks (subfamily Riodininae)
midges (family Chironomidae)
midget moths (family Nepticulidae)
milkweed butterflies (subfamily Danainae)
mining bees (family Andrenidae)
mole crickets (family Gryllotalpidae)
monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
morpho (family Morphidae)
mosquitoes (family Culicidae)
moth flies (family Psychodidae)
moths (superfamily Noctuoidea)
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Psocids (order Psocoptera)
painted lady (Vanessa cardui)
paper wasps (genus Polistes)
peppered moth (Biston betularia)
phantom midges (family Chaoboridae)
picture-winged flies (family Otitidae)
plant bugs (families Lygidae and Miridae)
plant hoppers (superfamily Fulgoroidea)
pleasing fungus beetles (family Erotylidae)
plum curculio (Conotrachelus nenuphar)
plume moths (family Pterophoridae)
potato beetle (Lema trilineata)
powderpost beetles (subfamily Lyctinae)
predaceous diving beetles (family Dytiscidae)
prominent moths (family Notodontidae)
proturans (class Protura)
pubic louse (Phthirus pubis)
pygmy grasshoppers (family Tetrigidae)
pygmy sand crickets (family Tridactylidae)
pyralid moths (family Pyralidae)
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Sahara desert ant (genus Cataglyphis)
San Jose scale (Quadraspidiotus perniciosus)
Scorpionflies (order Mecoptera)
Stoneflies (order Plecoptera)
Strepsipterans (order Strepsiptera)
sand flies (family Phlebotomidae)
sand wasps (tribe Bembicini)
sap beetles (family Nitidulidae)
saturniid moths (family Saturnidae)
satyr butterflies (subfamily Satyrinae)
sawflies (superfamily Tenthredinoidea)
scale insects (multiple families)
scarab beetles (family Scarabaeidae)
scurfy scale (Chionaspis furfura)
shield-backed katydid (subfamily Tettigoniinae)
shining leaf chafers (subfamily Rutelinae)
shore bugs (family Saldidae)
shore flies (family Ephydridae)
short-horned grasshoppers or locusts (family Acridae)
silken fungus beetles (family Cryptophagidae)
silkworm moth (Bombyx mori)
silverfish (Lepisma saccharina)
skin beetles (family Trogidae)
skippers (family Hesperiidae)
skippers (family Piophilidae)
skippers (superfamily Hesperoidea)
slug caterpillar moths (family Limacodidae)
smaller water striders (family Veliidae)
snipe flies (family Rhagionidae)
soldier beetles (family Cantharidae)
soldier flies (family Stratiomyidae)
spider beetles (family Anobiidae)
spider wasps (family Pompilidae)
spongillaflies (family Sisyridae)
springtails (order Collembola)
spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana)
stable flies (Stomoxys calcitrans)
stag beetles (family Lucanidae)
stalk-eyed flies (family Diopsidae)
stiletto flies (family Therevidae)
stilt bugs (family Berytidae)
stinkbugs (family Pentatomidae)
sucking lice (suborder Anoplura)
sulfur butterflies (subfamily Coliadinae)
swallowtail and parnassian butterflies (family Papilidae)
swifts (family Hepialidae)
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Termites (order Isoptera)
Thrips (order Thysanoptera)
True bugs (order Heteroptera)
tachinid flies (family Tachinidae)
tent caterpillar moths and lappet moths (family Lasiocampidae)
thick-headed flies (family Conopidae)
thread-waisted wasp (family Sphecidae)
tiger beetles (subfamily Cicindelinae)
tiger moths (family Arctiidae)
tiger swallowtails (Papilio glaucus and Battus philenor)
tineid moths (family Tineidae)
toad bugs (family Gelastocoridae)
tortoise beetles (subfamily Cassidinae)
treehoppers (family Membracidae)
trichogrammatids (family Trichogrammatidae)
true weevils (family Curculionidae)
tsetse flies (genus Glossina)
tumbling flower beetles (family Mordellidae)
tussock moths (family Lymantriidae)
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Walkingsticks (order Phasmida)
Webspinners (order Embioptera)
warble flies (family Oestridae)
wasps (several superfamilies)
water boatmen (family Corixidae)
water scavenger beetles (superfamily Hydrophiloidea)
water scorpions (family Nepidae)
water striders (family Gerridae)
water treaders (family Mesoveliidae)
whirligig beetles (family Gyrinidae)
white butterflies (subfamily Pierinae)
whiteflies (family Aleyrodidae)
window flies (family Scenopinidae)
window-winged moth (family Thyrididae)
wood wasps (families Xiphydriidae, Orussidae, and Anaxyelidae)
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backswimmers (family Notonectidae)
bagworm moths (family Psychidae)
balloon flies (family Acroceridae)
bark beetles (subfamily Scolytinae)
bark-gnawing beetles (family Trogossitidae)
bat bugs (family Polyctenidae)
bat flies (families Nycteribiidae and Streblidae)
bedbugs (family Cimicidae)
bees (superfamily Apoidea)
bess beetles (family Passalidae)
billbugs (subfamily Rhynchophorinae)
bird lice (multiple families)
biting midges (family Chironomidae)
black flies (family Simuliidae)
blister beetles (family Meloidae)
blow flies (family Calliphoridae)
blue butterflies (subfamily Polyommatinae)
boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis)
borer beetles (family Anobiidae)
bot flies (family Oestridae)
braconids (family Braconidae)
branch and twig borers (family Bostrichidae)
bristletails (order Thysanura)
brush-footed butterflies (family Nymphalidae)
bumblebees (tribe Bombini)
butterflies (superfamily Papilionoidea)
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oedemerid beetles (family Oedemeridae)
olethreutid moth (subfamily Olethreutinae)
orange-tip butterflies (genus Anthocharis)
owlet moths (family Noctuidae)
owlflies (family Ascalaphidae)
oystershell scale (Lepidosaphes ulmi)
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raspy crickets (subfamily Gryllacridinae)
red bugs (family Pyrrhocoridae)
regal moths (subfamily Citheroniinae)
rhinoceros beetles (subfamily Dynastinae)
rhynchophthirinans (suborder Rhynchophthirina)
robber flies (family Asilidae)
rove beetles (family Staphylinidae)
rust flies (family Psilidae)
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unique-headed bugs (family Enicocephalidae)
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velvet water bugs (family Hebridae)
velvety shore bugs (family Ochteridae)
vinegar flies (genus Drosophila)
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yellow jackets (genera Dolichovespula or Vespula)
yucca moth (genus Tegeticula)
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zebra swallowtail butterfly (Eurytides marcellus)