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** Not to mention that the ants had four legs. (To be fair, the grasshoppers had six.)

* What most people refer to as a "wild" beehive is actually a mix between an antique bee skep and a hornet's nest. ''Actual'' wild beehives look like this.
* Being arachnids, scorpions have eight legs(the pincers are pedipalps, which are closer to mouthparts than anything), but good luck finding one in TVland with the right number of legs. Made all the more grating because a simple Google search would solve this problem immediately.

* A filler arc of ''{{Naruto}}'' brings us "bees" that are very obviously hornets, a 12-foot beetle with a trunk (it trumpets like an elephant, too) and cockroaches which don't look or move like cockroaches.

*** In defense to the bees, the word 'hachi' can refer to either bees or wasps.
*** In other words, a translation error.

* ''{{Antz}}'' has mostly male worker ants.
* ''[=~A Bug's Life~=]'' also has mostly male worker ants.

* ''TheAntBully'' has male worker ants.

* The TV movie ''Mansquito'' (oh yes) has a human-mosquito hybrid killing people and drinking their blood. Problem is it's a '''man'''squito, so he's not growing any eggs and shouldn't require blood at all. While this COULD be written off as the radioactive gunk also changing his gender(If it can make a mammal part-insect, why the hell not?) it enters flat out ridiclous territory when he begins pursuing a WOMAN who has been mutated to a lesser extent. And while even that could be written off as a twofor GenderBender, the fact that SHE also craves blood completely extinguishes the possibility for any amusing Fanon theories.

* ''My Girl'' apparantly featured honeybees living inside what appears to be a hornet's nest.

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* The book ''Hercules Amsterdam'' [[AvertedTrope averts]] the InsectGenderBlender aspect of this trope: all the ants presented are female and their society is basically a StrawFeminist dictatorship of the queen.

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* ''TheFarSide'' had a cartoon about a mosquito husband arriving home, tired after a long day of sucking blood.
-->'''Gary Larson:''' And I really heard it when this "mosquito" cartoon came out. Numerous readers wrote to remind me that it's the ''female'' that does the biting, not the male. I knew that. (Of course, it's perfectly acceptable that these creatures wear clothes, live in houses, speak English, etc.)

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* Skansen Beanie Kids (not to be confused with Beanie Babies) released a Beanie Kid called Sting the Mosquito Bear. Aside from the fact that Sting looks absolutely nothing like a mosquito and more like an acid trip fairy, mosquitoes don't sting, they bite and suck blood (though a case can be made that 'Bite the Mosquito Bear' sounds more like an instruction than a name, and 'Suck the Mosquito Bear' just sounds wrong).

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* ''{{Fallout}}'': The series features various insects and arachnids growing to sizes that would not be physically possible, regardless of their amount of radiation exposure, along with gaining magnificient superpowers, such as being able to breathe fire. Of course, ''Fallout'' is supposed to be a [[ILoveNuclearPower parody fueled by radiation]].
** The fire ants are an accidental mutation via meddling by MadScientist. It is explained away with the venom glands producing flammable venom that is spark-ignited by the ant clicking it's mandibles together. [[DidNotDoTheResearch Since when biological exoskeletons produce sparks by friction?]] Even more amusing, the MadScientist calls the process pyrosis--that is to say, the [[StealthPun medical term for heartburn]].
** This is lampshaded early on in the first game, when a character notes that the giant scorpions should have their venom greatly diluted, but he is puzzled as to why it seems to remain just as potent.
* ''MisterMosquito'': The title says it all.

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* RuleOfFunny example: ''TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'' has a superheroine named the Queen Beetle. The "queen" title implies eusociality, but there are no eusocial species of beetles.
* Apple worms are moth caterpillars. They don't look remotely like earthworms. This fact is apparently unknown to the person who drew this webcomic: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?db=comics&id=1704#comic
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* In the "Turner Classic Birdman" episode of ''HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'', a Reducto-shrunk Birdman contends with "a spider... with only six legs!" When he gets a call from Falcon 7 that Vulturo has stolen a hydrogen bomb and feebly insists he has to deal with this emergency first, Falcon 7 isn't sympathetic. "Let's see, hydrogen bomb... gimp spider. Hydrogen bomb or gimp spider, ooooooh...."
* [[TheSecretSaturdays Munya]] is supposed to transform into a spider/human hybrid, but looks much more like a red ''IncredibleHulk'' with fangs, claws and four tiny legs poking out of his back.
** FridgeBrilliance, when one acknowledges the arguments often used against the existence of giant spiders. He wouldn't be able to function if he had a more spiderlike frame, so his design instead focuses on the spider's main strengths.
* One scene from Disney's ''TheMadDoctor'' involves MickeyMouse running into a skeletal spider. In real life, spiders, like all arthropods, have ''exoskeletons'', and therefore do not have bones.
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* What most people refer to as a "wild" beehive is actually a mix between an antique bee skep and a hornet's nest.

* ''{{Fallout}}'': The series features various insects and arachnids growing to sizes that would not be physically possible, regardless of their amount of radiation exposure, along with gaining magnificient superpowers, such as being able to breathe fire.
** The fire ants were an accidental mutation via meddling by MadScientist. It is explained away with the venom glands producing flammable venom that is spark-ignited by the ant clicking it's mandibles together. Excuse me, [[DidNotDoTheResearch since when biological exoskeletons can produce sparks by friction?]] Still doesn't explain how ''geckoes'' can spit fire as well.
*** Made even worse by the fact that said mad scientist calls this process pyrosis which happens to be [[StealthPun a medical term for heartburn]].
*** On the other hand, ''Fallout'' is supposed to be a [[ILoveNuclearPower parody fueled by radiation]].

*** In other words, a translation error.[[/folder]]

* Basically, every depiction that isn't attempting to go for scientific accuracy is abysmally, embarrassingly, very obviously wrong.[[/folder]]

*** In defense to the bees, the word 'hachi' can refer to either bees or wasps. [[/folder]]

* The TV movie ''Mansquito'' (oh yes) has a human-mosquito hybrid killing people and drinking their blood. Problem is it's a '''man'''squito, so he's not growing any eggs and shouldn't require blood at all. While this COULD be written off as the radioactive gunk also changing his gender(If it can make a mammal part-insect, why the hell not?) it enters flat out WallBanger territory when he begins pursuing a WOMAN who has been mutated to a lesser extent. And while even that could be written off as a twofor GenderBender, the fact that SHE also craves blood completely extinguishes the possibility for any amusing Fanon theories.

* ''[[{{IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull}} Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull]]'' averts and plays this straight. When Mutt Williams is stung by a slightly oversized emperor scorpion, this conversation ensues:

* {{Eight Legged Freaks}}: Spiders should not be able to grow to the size of cars because the exoskeleton would have to get disproportionately heavy, and the breathing system of spiders is terribly inefficient and would not scale up. Even if they were in an extremely oxygen rich atmosphere, the biggest they might (and I emphasize might) get would be a small dog.
* Surprisingly averted in the remake of {{The Fly}} involving a mutant Jeff Goldblum/fly hybrid. Like a fly he can scale walls with his hairy sticky feet and must eat his food in liquid form (as flies cannot chew) by vomiting on it.

* MisterMosquito: The title says it all.

* ''{{Mimic}}'' makes this a ZigzaggingTrope. On the one hand, they correctly note that the lack of lungs limits insect size (the insect oxygenation system was better suited to the O2-rich Carboniferous, which is why bugs got so much bigger back then). On the other hand, they fail to note that the exoskeleton is the ''other'' limiter on insect size. But then they correctly state that social insects use pheromones to identify each other...and then later make the mistake of the Judas Breed colony having no queen, but they do at least show them having a fertile male (termites also have a "king", and the Judas is part termite).

Another example is that, because of SmallTaxonomicPools and the RuleOfScary, a big arachnid that's not very dangerous in real life (such as a tarantula or an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_scorpion Emperor Scorpion]]) will be treated as if it ''is'' highly dangerous. Tarantulas, and the biggest species of scorpions, mainly have venoms that will have little effect on something as big as a human. The most venomous spiders and scorpions are typically quite ''small''. The big ones are chosen because the little ones won't show up on a movie screen and because if an animal with weak venom did end up biting anyone on the cast or crew, it would be less of a problem than if an animal with strong venom bit them.

( {{Eight Legged Freaks}}: Spiders should not be able to grow to the size of cars because the exoskeleton would have to get disproportionately heavy, and the breathing system of spiders is terribly inefficient and would not scale up. Even if they were in an extremely oxygen rich atmosphere, the biggest they might (and I emphasize might) get would be a small dog.

* The TV movie ''Mansquito'' (oh yes) has a human-mosquito hybrid killing people and drinking their blood. Problem is it's a '''man'''squito, so he's not growing any eggs and shouldn't require blood at all.

** Pain's centipede summon has what's basically a snake head with fangs tacked onto the sides.[[/folder]]
*** In defense to the bees, the word 'hachi' can refer to either bees or wasps.

** The fire was genetically engineered in by a mad scientist.
*** That arguably makes it worse!

** Also, grasshoppers don't attack in clouds and do not fly for that matter, crickets do. Annoyingly, the mistake is also present in translations such as the French one.
*** Grasshoppers most certainly can fly, tho usually it's a fly-hop kind of deal.
*** Grasshoppers also do 'attack' in clouds in their gregarious Locust phase.

* ''[[{{Ptitle55xey2nb}} Them!]]'' features giant ants that, had they actually grown to that size, would collapse upon themselves while simultaneously experiencing catastrophic organ failure.

* In story example: Spiderman is always been called and 'insect' by its foes. He always corrects them.