Interactive Bugs

Asian Bugs

Asia has a moth as wide as a dinner plate, a mantis that looks like a flower, and a country where beetles are kept as pets. Choose a place and one will follow you round it.

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Two places to discover

Rainforest An Atlas moth, a Rajah Brooke's birdwing, an orchid mantis, an Atlas beetle, weaver ants and a jewel beetle. 6 bugs Japanese garden A rhinoceros beetle, a giant hornet, a Joro spider, a red dragonfly, a brown cicada and Japan's national butterfly. 6 bugs

Things to do

A to ZEvery bug on the site in one list, grouped by where it lives. Bugs by typeBeetles together, butterflies together, spiders together, from all over the world. My spotter's listSeen one for real? Tick it off. QuizWho is this? Ten quick questions, and a new set every time.

Admired for a thousand years

Nowhere have insects been watched, kept, painted and written about for as long as in Asia. Silk, lacquer and honey all began there with an insect.

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