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* PitifulWorms: Insulting a person by comparing them to an insect.
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* WormInAnApple: Worms are strongly associated with apples, usually as a sight gag.
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* LiteralBookworm: Worms or wormlike creatures that can be found around books.
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* PupatingPeril: Cocoons, chrysalises and pupae used to convey fear and looming danger.
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* 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.
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* BoysLikeCreepyCritters: When boys adore things like insects, spiders, or lizards.
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JapaneseBeetleBrothers: Two characters based on the Japanese rhinoceros beetle and the stag beetle.
*LightingBug:
LightingBug: Glowing bugs used as a light source.
*MacabreMothMotif:
MacabreMothMotif: Moths depicted as a bad omen.
*MonstrousMandibles:
MonstrousMandibles: Adding arthropod-style mouthparts to something to make it look scary.
*MothMenace:
MothMenace: Threatening (and often giant) moths and butterflies.
*MosquitoMiscreants:
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PrettyButterflies: Positive portrayals of butterflies.
*ScarabPower:
ScarabPower: Scarab beetles associated with divinity, magic, or power in general.
*SlayingMantis:
SlayingMantis: Praying mantises portrayed as badass and scary.
*SomewhereAnEntomologistIsCrying:
SomewhereAnEntomologistIsCrying: Factual inaccuracies about land-based arthropods (insects and arachnids) in a work of fiction, usually because they make the story work better.
*StrongAnts:
StrongAnts: Ants are so strong, they can carry away pretty much everything.
*SwallowedAFly:
SwallowedAFly: When a fly or other small insect accidentally winds up in someone's mouth.
*SynchronizedSwarming:
SynchronizedSwarming: Swarms of living creatures moving in synchronization.
*TermiteTrouble:
TermiteTrouble: Termites portrayed as a terrifying invisible force that rapidly disintegrates wood.
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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 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 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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AntWar: War between social insects, often ants.
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AntlionMonster: A monster that waits for its prey at the bottom of a pit.
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BeePeople: Fantastic races with a eusocial hive-like society similar to real-life bees and ants.
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StockBeehive: A fictional beehive that looks like a mix between RealLife beehives and paper-covered wasp nests.
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VirtuousBees: Bees associated with community, hard work, and sacrifice.
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BugWar: A war involving InsectoidAliens.
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ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Butterflies signal someone's going to die. Getting reborn might be part of the deal, too.
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CicadianRhythm: When hearing cicadas means it's summer.
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CreepyCockroach: Cockroaches depicted as vile.
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DreadfulDragonfly: Giant, vicious dragonflies.
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FleaEpisode: An episode centered on a character who has fleas and tries to get rid of them.
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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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FourLeggedInsect: Species of animal portrayed with fewer legs than they have in real life.
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FriendToBugs: Somebody who likes insects.
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A very common colloquial term for insects for general is "bugs," whereas actual bugs are insects in the order Hemiptera.
Tropes that pertain to insects, insect-themed characters, and things often associated with insects go here.
Sub index of InvertebrateIndex.
See ArachnidTropes for tropes pertaining to another class in the arthropod phylum.
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* AntWar
* AntlionMonster
* BeeAfraid
* BeeBeeGun
* BeePeople
* BeetleManiac
* BigCreepyCrawlies
* BugBuzz
* BugCatching
* BugWar
* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth
* ButterflyOfTransformation
* CartoonBugSprayer
* ChirpingCrickets
* CicadianRhythm
* CreepyCockroach
* DreadfulDragonfly
* FleaEpisode
* FliesEqualsEvil
* FlyCrazy
* FlyInTheSoup
* FourLeggedInsect
* FriendToBugs
* HiveCasteSystem
* HornetHole
* InsectGenderBender
* InsectQueen
* InsectoidAliens
* JapaneseBeetleBrothers
* MacabreMothMotif
* MothMenace
* PrettyButterflies
* ScarabPower
* SlayingMantis
* SomewhereAnEntomologistIsCrying
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* StrongAnts
* SwallowedAFly
* SynchronizedSwarming
* TermiteTrouble
* WalletMoths
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