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8	->''"Their angular limbs, their jerky movements, their dry, metallic noises, all suggest either machines that have come to life or life degenerating into mechanism."''
9	-->-- '''Creator/CSLewis''', ''Surprised by Joy''
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11	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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13	A very common colloquial term for insects in general is "bugs", whereas actual bugs are insects in the order ''Hemiptera''.
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15	Tropes that pertain to insects, insect-themed characters, and things often associated with insects go here.
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17	Sub-index of InvertebrateIndex.
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19	See ArachnidTropes for tropes pertaining to another class in the arthropod phylum.
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23	!!Tropes:
24	[[index]]
25	* Ants:
26	** AmicableAnts: Ants depicted as heroic or friendly.
27	** AntAssault: Ants depicted as dangerous or troublesome.
28	** AntWar: War between social insects, often ants.
29	** StrongAnts: Ants are so strong, they can carry away pretty much everything.
30	* AntlionMonster: A monster that waits for its prey at the bottom of a pit.
31	* UsefulNotes/{{Bees}}: Factual information about real-life bees.
32	** BeeAfraid: Bees depicted as scary, dangerous or antagonistic.
33	** BeeBeeGun: A gun that shoots bees.
34	** BeePeople: Fantastic races with a eusocial hive-like society similar to real-life bees and ants.
35	** HornetHole: Beehive levels in video games
36	** ScaryStingingSwarm: Chased by a swarm of angry, stinging insects.
37	** StockBeehive: A fictional beehive that looks like a mix between RealLife beehives and paper-covered wasp nests.
38	** VirtuousBees: Bees associated with community, hard work, and sacrifice.
39	* BeetleManiac: Characters who have a great curiosity and interest in beetles.
40	* BigCreepyCrawlies: Giant insects.
41	* BoysLikeCreepyCritters: When boys adore things like insects, spiders, or lizards.
42	* BugBuzz: Insects that make a hideously annoying buzzing sound
43	* BugCatching: A pastime hobby involving catching and later releasing insects.
44	* BugsHeraldEvil: Insects as a signal of a bigger evil.
45	* BugWar: A war involving InsectoidAliens.
46	* BugWorks: An index of works focusing on insects and other bugs.
47	* CartoonBugSprayer: An Old-fashioned canister bug sprayer with a hand pump still commonly used in animation.
48	* ChirpingCrickets: Cricket chirps are heard to emphasize the dead silence in response to a character telling a bad joke or saying something that would warrant shocked stares.
49	* CicadianRhythm: When hearing cicadas means it's summer.
50	* CreepyCockroach: Cockroaches depicted as vile and unpleasant creatures.
51	* CreepyCrawlyTorture: Using insects as a torture device.
52	* DreadfulDragonfly: Giant, vicious dragonflies.
53	* FleaEpisode: An episode centered on a character who has fleas and tries to get rid of them.
54	* Flies:
55	** {{Beelzebub}}: Famed demon prince and Lord of the Flies.
56	** FliesEqualsEvil: The arrival of flies, mosquitoes, wasps, or other creepy crawlies to indicate something horrible is about to happen.
57	** FlyCrazy: Someone gets bothered by an insect and goes to desperate lengths to try and kill it.
58	** 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.
59	** 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.
60	** SuperFlyReflexes: Someone catches a fly or another tiny creature mid-flight to show off their amazing reflexes.
61	* FourLeggedInsect: Species of animal portrayed with fewer legs than they have in real life.
62	* FriendToBugs: Somebody who likes insects.
63	* HiveCasteSystem: Insectoid aliens or similar creatures using specialized castes of their own race for a war.
64	* HumansAreInsects: Higher life forms see humans as insignificant and unintelligent vermin.
65	* TheInfested: A character is filled with vermin, usually bugs.
66	* InsectGenderBender: When insects have abilities that conflict with their gender.
67	* InsectQueen: An insect that is treated as royalty.
68	* InsectoidAliens: Aliens that look like bugs.
69	* JapaneseBeetleBrothers: Two characters based on the Japanese rhinoceros beetle and the stag beetle.
70	* Lepidopterans:
71	** ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: Butterflies signal someone's going to die. Getting reborn might be part of the deal, too.
72	** ButterflyOfTransformation: Butterflies used as a symbol of change.
73	** MacabreMothMotif: Moths depicted as a bad omen.
74	** TheMothman: A enigmatic cryptid that is often stated to resemble a dark humanoid lepidopteran.
75	** MothMenace: Threatening (and often giant) moths and butterflies.
76	** PrettyButterflies: Positive portrayals of butterflies.
77	** WalletMoths: Moths fly out of someone's wallet or pockets to show that they have no money.
78	* LiceEpisode: An episode features people getting lice.
79	* LightingBug: Glowing bugs used as a light source.
80	* MantisMatingMeal: Female praying mantises eating their mates after mating.
81	* MechanicalInsects: Bugs with mechanical aspects or machines designed after bugs.
82	* MonstrousMandibles: Adding arthropod-style mouthparts to something to make it look scary.
83	* MosquitoMiscreants: Mosquitoes being portrayed as either evil or annoying.
84	* PestController: Someone with the ability to command pests to do their bidding.
85	* PupatingPeril: Cocoons, chrysalises and pupae used to convey fear and looming danger.
86	* ScarabPower: Scarab beetles associated with divinity, magic, or power in general.
87	* SlayingMantis: Praying mantises portrayed as badass and scary.
88	* SomewhereAnEntomologistIsCrying: Factual inaccuracies about land-based arthropods (insects and arachnids) in a work of fiction, usually because they make the story work better.
89	* SwallowedAFly: When a fly or other small insect accidentally winds up in someone's mouth.
90	* TheSwarm: A scary, all-devouring horde of locusts or grasshoppers.
91	* SynchronizedSwarming: Swarms of living creatures moving in synchronization.
92	* TermiteTrouble: Termites portrayed as a terrifying invisible force that rapidly disintegrates wood.
93	* ThunderBeetle: Beetles being used as symbols of thunder and lightning or given actual electrical powers.
94	* ToughBeetles: Beetles portrayed as strong and heavily armored.
95	* WickedWasps: Wasps portrayed as mean or evil.
96	[[/index]]

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