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* TheInfested: A character is filled with bugs.

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* TheInfested: A character is filled with vermin, usually bugs.
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* TheInfested: A character is filled with bugs.
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The index for all six-legged, two-antennaed, two compound-eyed [[note]]Insects actually have five eyes, but only two of them have compound lenses. The insects best known for this feature are the flies, the insects in the order ''Diptera'', defined by their single pair of clear wings[[/note]] things that make up the largest class in the arthropod phylum[[note]]The phylum ''Arthropoda'' is already the largest phylum in the animal kingdom. So, this index is on the largest class of animals in the largest phylum in the Kingdom ''Animalia''.[[/note]] and the largest taxonomic group in all the animal kingdom[[note]]The largest order in the insect class is the ''Coleoptera'', or beetles[[/note]].

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The index for all six-legged, two-antennaed, two compound-eyed [[note]]Insects compound-eyed[[note]]Insects actually have five eyes, but only two of them have compound lenses. The insects best known for this feature are the flies, the insects in the order ''Diptera'', defined by their single pair of clear wings[[/note]] things that make up the largest class in the arthropod phylum[[note]]The phylum ''Arthropoda'' is already the largest phylum in the animal kingdom. So, this index is on the largest class of animals in the largest phylum in the Kingdom ''Animalia''.[[/note]] and the largest taxonomic group in all the animal kingdom[[note]]The largest order in the insect class is the ''Coleoptera'', or beetles[[/note]].
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* TheMothman: A enigmatic cryptid that is often stated to resemble a dark humanoid lepidopteran.

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* ** TheMothman: A enigmatic cryptid that is often stated to resemble a dark humanoid lepidopteran.
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* TheMothman: A enigmatic cryptid that is often stated to resemble a dark humanoid lepidopteran.
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** AmicableAnts: Ants depicted as heroic or friendly.

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* AntAssault: Ants depicted as dangerous or troublesome.
* AntWar: War between social insects, often ants.

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* Ants:
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AntAssault: Ants depicted as dangerous or troublesome.
* ** AntWar: War between social insects, often ants.ants.
** StrongAnts: Ants are so strong, they can carry away pretty much everything.



* StrongAnts: Ants are so strong, they can carry away pretty much everything.
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The index for all six-legged, two-antennaed, two compound-eyed [[note]]Insects actually have five eyes, but only two of them have compound lenses. The insects best known for this feature are the flies, the insects in the order Diptera, defined by their single pair of clear wings.[[/note]] things that make up the largest class in the arthropod phylum [[note]]The phylum Arthropoda is already the largest phylum in the animal kingdom. So, this index is on the largest class of animals in the largest phylum in the Kingdom Animalia.[[/note]] and the largest taxonomic group in all the animal kingdom [[note]]The largest order in the insect class is the Coleoptera, or beetles[[/note]].

A very common colloquial term for insects in general is "bugs," whereas actual bugs are insects in the order Hemiptera.

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The index for all six-legged, two-antennaed, two compound-eyed [[note]]Insects actually have five eyes, but only two of them have compound lenses. The insects best known for this feature are the flies, the insects in the order Diptera, ''Diptera'', defined by their single pair of clear wings.[[/note]] wings[[/note]] things that make up the largest class in the arthropod phylum[[note]]The phylum [[note]]The phylum Arthropoda ''Arthropoda'' is already the largest phylum in the animal kingdom. So, this index is on the largest class of animals in the largest phylum in the Kingdom Animalia.''Animalia''.[[/note]] and the largest taxonomic group in all the animal kingdom [[note]]The kingdom[[note]]The largest order in the insect class is the Coleoptera, ''Coleoptera'', or beetles[[/note]].

A very common colloquial term for insects in general is "bugs," "bugs", whereas actual bugs are insects in the order Hemiptera.
''Hemiptera''.



Sub index of InvertebrateIndex.

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Sub index Sub-index of InvertebrateIndex.
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* MantisMatingMeal: Female praying mantises eating their mates after mating.
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* TheSwarm: A scary, all-devouring horde of locusts or grasshoppers.
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* CreepyCockroach: Cockroaches depicted as vile.

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* CreepyCockroach: Cockroaches depicted as vile.vile and unpleasant creatures.
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* LiceEpisode: An episode features people getting lice.
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* LiceEpisode: An episode features people getting lice.
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* LiceEpisode: An episode features people getting lice.
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** WalletMoths: Wallets fly out of someone's wallet or pockets to show that they have no money.

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** WalletMoths: Wallets Moths fly out of someone's wallet or pockets to show that they have no money.
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** SuperFlyReflexes: Someone catches a fly or another tiny creature mid-flight to show off their amazing reflexes.
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->''"Their angular limbs, their jerky movements, their dry, metallic noises, all suggest either machines that have come to life or life degenerating into mechanism."''
-->-- '''Creator/CSLewis''', ''Surprised by Joy''
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* CreepyCrawlyTorture: Using insects as a torture device.
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** BeeAfraid: Bees depicted as scary, dangerous or antagonistic.

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** BeeAfraid: Chased by a swarm of angry, stinging insects.


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** ScaryStingingSwarm: Chased by a swarm of angry, stinging insects.

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* BugMedia: An index of works focusing on insects and other bugs.


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* BugWorks: An index of works focusing on insects and other bugs.
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* BugMedia: An index of works focusing on insects and other bugs.
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* MechanicalInsects: Bugs with mechanical aspects or machines designed after bugs.
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* ToughBeetles: Beetles portrayed as strong and heavily armored.

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** HornetHole: Beehive levels in video games



* {{Beelzebub}}: Famed demon prince and Lord of the Flies.



* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Butterflies signal someone's going to die. Getting reborn might be part of the deal, too.
* ButterflyOfTransformation: Butterflies used as a symbol of change.



* FliesEqualsEvil: The arrival of flies, mosquitoes, wasps, or other creepy crawlies to indicate something horrible is about to happen.
* FlyCrazy: Someone gets bothered by an insect and goes to desperate lengths to try and kill it.
* FlyInTheSoup: A recipient at a restaurant having a bowl of soup, only for them to call out to the waiter that there's a fly in their soup.

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* Flies:
** {{Beelzebub}}: Famed demon prince and Lord of the Flies.
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FliesEqualsEvil: The arrival of flies, mosquitoes, wasps, or other creepy crawlies to indicate something horrible is about to happen.
* ** FlyCrazy: Someone gets bothered by an insect and goes to desperate lengths to try and kill it.
* ** FlyInTheSoup: A recipient at a restaurant having a bowl of soup, only for them to call out to the waiter that there's a fly in their soup.soup.
** MessyMaggots: Something gross can be easily be pictured as even grosser if swarms of maggots are covering it, while characters that happen to be maggots themselves have this gross trait often magnetized towards them in their personality.



* HornetHole: Beehive levels in video games



* Lepidopterans:
** ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Butterflies signal someone's going to die. Getting reborn might be part of the deal, too.
** ButterflyOfTransformation: Butterflies used as a symbol of change.
** MacabreMothMotif: Moths depicted as a bad omen.
** MothMenace: Threatening (and often giant) moths and butterflies.
** PrettyButterflies: Positive portrayals of butterflies.
** WalletMoths: Wallets fly out of someone's wallet or pockets to show that they have no money.



* MacabreMothMotif: Moths depicted as a bad omen.
* MessyMaggots: Something gross can be easily be pictured as even grosser if swarms of maggots are covering it, while characters that happen to be maggots themselves have this gross trait often magnetized towards them in their personality.



* MothMenace: Threatening (and often giant) moths and butterflies.



* PrettyButterflies: Positive portrayals of butterflies.



* WalletMoths: Wallets fly out of someone's wallet or pockets to show that they have no money.
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* AntAssault: Ants depicted as dangerous or troublesome.

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