Full list of EVERY insect, prices, and how to catch them in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Catch every insect, and make a nice profit too
While playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons you will, like many players, be rushing around your island trying to collect every single insect in the game in order to make some quick money, and fill up the Museum was fascinating exhibits. I respect the hustle, honestly.
Which is why I have to deliver to you some a full list of every single bug in Animal Crossing: New Horizon's Critterpedia, so you can easily see at a glance how to find those bugs missing from your Museum, and find out which bugs are worth the most money so you can get a tidy profit from Nook's Cranny.
Keep in mind, bug hunting is especially lucrative when Flick is in town. He will pay a premium price for all bugs you bring to him, in addition to crafting you unique and special bug models in exchange for three of the desired insect. Not bad at all.
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Now that's out of the way, see below for a full list of every single insect in the game. This list is not yet entirely complete with prices, but a big thanks go out to the contributors on the Animal Crossing Wiki for helping us fill out this list.
Name | Price | Location | Time | Months: North Hem/South Hem |
Common Butterfly | 160 | Flowers | 4am-7pm | Sept-Jun / Mar-Dec |
Yellow Butterly | 160 | Flying | 4am-7pm | Mar-Oct / Mar-Dec |
Tiger Butterfly | 240 | Flying | 4am-7pm | Mar-Sept / Sept-Mar |
Peacock Butterfly | 2500 | Rare flowers | 4am-7pm | Mar-Jun / Sept-Dec |
Common Bluebottle | 300 | Flying | 4am-7pm | Apr-Aug / Oct-Feb |
Paper Kite Butterfly | 1000 | Flying | 8am-7pm | Apr-Aug / Oct-Feb |
Great Purple Emperor | 3000 | Flying | 4am-7am | May-Aug / Nov-Feb |
Monarch Butterfly | 140 | Flying | 4am-5pm | Sept-Nov / Mar-May |
Emperor Butterfly | 4000 | Flying | 5pm-8am | Jun-Mar / Jun-Mar |
Agrias Butterfly | 3000 | Flying | 8am-5pm | Apr-Sept / Oct-Mar |
Rajah Brooke's Birdwing | 2500 | Rare flowers | 8am-5pm | Dec-Sept / Jun-Mar |
Queen Alexandra's Birdwing | 4000 | Flying | 8am-4pm | May-Sept / Nov-Apr |
Moth | 130 | Lights | 7pm-4am | All / All |
Atlas Moth | 3000 | Trees | 7pm-4am | Apr-Sept / Oct-Mar |
Madagascan Sunset Moth | 2500 | Flying | 8am-4pm | Apr-Sept / Oct-Mar |
Long Locust | 200 | Grass | 8am-7pm | Apr-Nov / Oct-May |
Migratory Locust | 200 | Grass | 8am-7pm | Aug-Nov / Feb-May |
Rice Grasshopper | 1600 | Grass | 8am-7pm | Aug-Nov / Feb-May |
Grasshopper | 160 | Grass | 8am-5pm | Jul-Sept / Jan-Mar |
Cricket | 130 | Grass | 5pm-8am | Sept-Nov / Mar-May |
Bell Cricket | 430 | Grass | 5pm-8am | Sept-Nov / Mar-May |
Mantis | 430 | Flowers | 8am-5pm | Mar-Nov / Sept-Apr |
Orchid Mantis | 2400 | Flowers | 8am-5pm | Mar-Nov / Sept-May |
Honeybee | 200 | Flowers | 8am-5pm | Mar-Jul / Sept-Jan |
Wasp | 2500 | Shake trees | All | All / All |
Brown Cicada | 250 | Trees | 8am-5pm | Jul-Aug / Jan-Feb |
Robust Cicada | 300 | Trees | 8am-5pm | Jul-Aug / Jan-Feb |
Giant Cicada | 500 | Trees | 8am-5pm | Jul-Aug / Jan-Feb |
Walker Cicada | 400 | Trees | 8am-4pm | Aug-Sept / Feb-Mar |
Evening Cicada | 550 | Trees | 4am-8am / 4pm-7pm | Jul-Aug / Jan-Feb |
Cicada Shell | 10 | Trees | All | Jul-Aug / Jan-Feb |
Red Dragonfly | 180 | Flying | 8am-7pm | Sept-Oct / Mar-Apr |
Darner Dragonfly | 230 | Flying | 8am-5pm | Apr-Oct / Oct-Apr |
Banded Dragonfly | 230 | Flying | 8am-5pm | May-Oct / Nov-Apr |
Damselfly | 500 | Flying | All | Nov-Feb / May-Aug |
Firefly | 300 | Freshwater | 7pm-4pm | June / Dec |
Mole Cricket | 500 | Underground | All | Nov-May / May-Nov |
Pondskater | 130 | Pond/River | 8am-7pm | May-Sept / Nov-Mar |
Diving Beetle | 800 | Pond/River | 8am-7pm | May-Sept / Nov-Mar |
Giant Water Bug | 2000 | Pond/River | 7pm-8am | Apr-Sept / Oct-Mar |
Stinkbug | 120 | Flowers | All | Mar-Oct / Sept-Apr |
Man-faced Stink Bug | 1000 | Flowers | 7pm-8am | Mar-Oct / Sept-Apr |
Ladybug | 200 | Flowers | 8am-5pm | Mar-Oct / Apr-Dec |
Tiger Beetle | 1000 | Grass | All | Feb-Oct / Sept-Mar |
Jewel Beetle | 2400 | Trees | All | Apr-Aug / Oct-Feb |
Citrus Long-horned Beetle | 350 | Tree stumps | All | All / All |
Rosalia Batesi Beetle | 3000 | Tree stumps | All | May-Sept / Nov-Mar |
Blue Weevil Beetle | 800 | Trees | All | Jul-Aug / Jan-Feb |
Violin Beetle | 450 | Trees | All | May-Nov / Nov-May |
Dung Beetle | 2500 | Grass | All | Dec-Feb / Jan-Mar |
Earth-boring Dung Beetle | 300 | Grass | All | Jul-Sept / Jan-Mar |
Scarab Beetle | 10000 | Trees | 11pm-8am | Jul-Aug / Jan-Feb |
Drone Beetle | 200 | Trees | All | Jun-Aug / Jan-Feb |
Goliath Beetle | 8000 | Trees | 5pm-8am | Jun-Sept / Dec-Apr |
Saw Stag | 2000 | Trees | All | July-Aug / Jan-Feb |
Miyama Stag | 1000 | Trees | All | Jul-Aug / Jan-Feb |
Giant Stag | 10000 | Trees | 11pm-8am | Jul-Aug / Jan-Feb |
Rainbow Stag | 6000 | Trees | 7pm-8am | Jun-Sept / Dec-Mar |
Cyclommatus Stag | 8000 | Trees | 5pm-8am | Jul-Aug / Jan-Feb |
Golden Stag | 12000 | Trees | 5pm-8am | Jul-Aug / Jan-Feb |
Giraffe Stag | 12000 | Trees | 5pm-8am | Jul-Aug / Jan-Feb |
Horned Dynastid | 1350 | Trees | 5pm-8am | Jul-Aug / Jan-Feb |
Horned Atlas | 8000 | Trees | 5pm-8am | Jul-Aug / Jan-Feb |
Horned Elephant | 8000 | Trees | 5pm-8am | Jul-Aug / Jan-Feb |
Horned Hercules | 12000 | Trees | 5pm-8am | Jul-Aug / Jan-Feb |
Walking Stick | 600 | Trees | 4am-8am / 5pm-7pm | Jul-Nov / Jan-May |
Walking Leaf | 600 | Ground | All | Jul-Sept / Jan-Mar |
Bagworm | 600 | Shake trees | All | All / All |
Ant | 80 | Rotten fruit | All | All / All |
Hermit Crab | 1000 | Beach | 7pm-8am | All / All |
Wharf Roach | 200 | On shore rocks | All | All / All |
Fly | 60 | Rotten fruit | All | All / All |
Mosquito | 130 | Flying | 5pm-4am | Jun-Sept / Dec-Mar |
Flea | 70 | On villagers | All | Apr-Nov / Oct-May |
Snail | 250 | On rocks while raining | All | All / All |
Pill Bug | 250 | Hit rocks | 11pm-4pm | Sept-Jun / Mar-Dec |
Centipede | 430 | Hit rocks | 5pm-11pm | Sept-Jun / Mar-Dec |
Spider | 600 | Shake trees | 7pm-8am | All / All |
Tarantula | 8000 | Ground | 7pm-8am | All / All |
Scorpion | 8000 | Ground | 7pm-4am | May-Oct / Nov-Apr |