List of Insects: 25 Useful Insect Names with Pictures and Examples

List of Insects in English! This lesson will provide 25 popular names of insects with example sentences and ESL printable infographic.

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List of Insects

Names of Insects in English

• Ant
• Bee
• Beetle
• Butterfly
• Bug
• Caterpillar
• Centipede
• Cockroach
• Cricket
• Dragonfly
• Flea
• Fly
• Grasshopper
• Grub
• Ladybug
• Maggot
• Mosquito
• Snail
• Locust
• Termite
• Tick
• Wasp
• Praying Mantids
• Greenfly
• Snakefly

Insect Names with Example Sentences

Ant

• The ant is a social insect.

Bee

• The bee is going from flower to flower.

Beetle

• He saw a shiny green beetle on a leaf.

Butterfly

• He likes collecting butterfly specimens.

Bug

• The bird caught a bug on the fly.

Caterpillar

• A butterfly is produced by metamorphosis from a caterpillar.

Centipede

• How many legs does a centipede have?

Cockroach

• Look at the cockroach.

Dragonfly

• A dragonfly sows its eggs while skimming the surface of the water.

Flea

• I must have been bitten by a flea, my arms are itchy.

Fly

• There is a fly on her loose coil of hair.

Grasshopper

• A grasshopper can leap over obstacles 500 times its own height.

Grub

• A grub looks like a short fat worm.

Ladybug

• A female ladybug will lay more than 1000 eggs in her lifetime.

Maggot

• I feel like a maggot in a carcass.

Mosquito

• She made a swipe at the mosquito.

Snail

• The snail left a trail of slime along the floor.

Locust

• The yellow locust is another matter entirely.

Termite

• For a termite, home is a fallen log.

Wasp

•  A wasp flew in the open window.

Praying Mantids

• Most Praying mantids are of the family Mantidae.

Greenfly

• Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry.

Insect Names | Infographic