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Insects

Six legs, three body parts: bees, ants, beetles, butterflies and moths, flies, grasshoppers and the rest.

Spiders, scorpions, woodlice, centipedes and millipedes are not insects and are listed separately. That's a common trap in the game.

28 animals, A to Z.

• 🐜AntSocial insects living in colonies of a queen, workers and males, with more than 13,800 species described of an estimated 22,000.
• 🐝BeeFlying insects that feed on nectar and pollen, with over 20,000 species.
• 🪲BeetleInsects whose front wings are hardened into wing-cases.
• 🐝BumblebeeOver 250 species of large, fuzzy, social bees, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere.
• 🦋ButterflyWinged insects with large, often brightly coloured wings, around 18,500 species in all.
• 🐛CaterpillarThe larval stage of butterflies and moths, built for eating and growing.
• 🐾CicadaMore than 3,000 species of sap-sucking bugs with wide-set eyes and clear wings, living in trees in temperate and tropical places worldwide.
• 🪳CockroachAbout 4,600 species of flat-bodied insects, only about 30 of which live around people.
• 🦗CricketMostly nocturnal insects related to bush crickets and grasshoppers, with round heads, long antennae and powerful jumping legs.
• 🪰DragonflyAbout 3,000 species of fast, agile predatory insects with huge compound eyes and two pairs of strong wings.
• 🐾EarwigAbout 2,000 species of insects with forceps-like pincers on the tail, found on every continent except Antarctica.
• 🐾FireflyMore than 2,400 species of soft-bodied beetles, many of which glow, mostly at twilight, to attract mates.
• 🐾FleaAbout 2,500 species of small, wingless insects that live as external parasites of mammals and birds and feed on their blood.
• 🪰FlyInsects with a single pair of wings; the hind pair became small balancing organs.
• 🦗GrasshopperPlant-eating insects with powerful hind legs for leaping, one of the oldest groups of chewing plant-eaters.
• 🐝HornetThe largest social wasps: 22 species, most in tropical Asia.
• 🐾HorseflyLarge, agile flies, including horse flies and deer flies.
• 🐾KatydidMore than 8,000 species of long-horned relatives of grasshoppers, also called bush crickets.
• 🐞LadybirdOver 6,000 species of small, domed beetles, often red with black spots that warn predators they taste bad.
• 🦗LocustShort-horned grasshoppers that can switch into a swarming phase.
• 🐾MayflyOver 3,000 species of ancient insects with upright wings and long tails.
• 🦟MosquitoAbout 3,600 species of small flies.
• 🦋MothThe vast majority of the insect order that also includes butterflies, with about 160,000 species.
• 🦗Praying mantisOver 2,400 species of predatory insects with big, grasping front legs held folded as if praying.
• 🐾SilkwormThe caterpillar of the domestic silk moth, bred in China for at least 5,000 years to make silk.
• 🐾Stick insectPlant-eating insects camouflaged as sticks or leaves, found on every continent except Antarctica, most of all in the tropics.
• 🐾TermiteAbout 3,000 species of social insects that eat decaying plant matter, mostly wood, leaf litter and humus.
• 🐝WaspNarrow-waisted insects that are neither bees nor ants, with tens of thousands of species.

How each answer is decided: How we answer. Every animal, in one list: All animals.