Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Insect Guide

Do you know what can never be missing in a self-respecting Animal Crossing video game? Lots of different insects to catch.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons continues the tradition of the saga by filling the island where the adventures of your character are set with insects of any shape and nature.

The bugs in Animal Crossing have different utilities: they can be sold to make money, they can be given to other inhabitants, they can be donated to the museum in the area or they can be kept as furniture for the most bizarre of you players.

Catching an insect is a sweet and nice ritual that sees your avatar armed with a net splashing through the air in search of things.

Get closer to the insect you want with the special net, maybe sneak up on it by holding down the A button and fly the instrument in the correct direction. Sometimes it may not even serve the net directly and you will be able to grab the insect with your hands by simply pressing the dedicated button.

Insects have different rarities and some can be sold for very large amounts of money; the rarest insects are also worth thousands of bells and can forage a lot of player purchases with just one find.

Let's see together how many bugs there are, how to catch them, where to catch them and what time to do it!

Insect catching guide.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons has a total of eighty different insects on its side, eight more than could be found inside New Leaf.

The guide has been written following the English version of the title, with appropriate translation where necessary/possible.

Equipment.

In order to catch insects, it is necessary to have specific tools with you, namely nets.

Starting from the first network, also called flimsy net using his own workbench the player will have the possibility to upgrade this tool to the required durability level. All the nets in the game offer the same possibilities of catching insects to the player; they differ from each other only in the amount of times they can be used before breaking.

Networks can be created on the workbench by collecting the resources found around the island or can be purchased at Tom Nook's shop.

Where to catch them

The insects in Animal Crossing: New Horizons are scattered all over the game world; they hide and reproduce practically everywhere.

Trees, rivers, flowers, rocks or places in the sun are all places where insects can be seen to reproduce. The complete list of where insects are caught is found below, along with all other relevant information.

Remember that if you remove every plant form from your island you are making the proliferation of these life forms more difficult.

The importance of weather.

The weather is a very important parameter in Animal Crossing, especially when trying to catch all the insects.

Butterflies never appear when it rains and grasshoppers avoid the sun whenever possible. Try to remember that depending on the weather conditions at the time the insect pool that you can catch will be different.

The time and the seasons.

The last great parameter that must be taken into account to capture all insects is the temporal one. Animal Crossing: New Horizons Just like the previous chapters of the saga, it is synchronized with the real world and has a flow of successive seasons, which is why the time you are playing and the month you are playing are important parameters for capturing insects.

To complete your collection you need to play for practically all seasons and at all hours, only then will you get all the insects you need.

List of insects in Animal Crossing: New Horizons .

Northern hemisphereName

insectSeasonalityWhere to find itWhenPrice for sale

Southern Hemisphere