Interactive Bugs

South American Bugs

South America has the biggest spider, the longest beetle, ants that farm, and a butterfly you can see straight through. Choose a place and one will follow you round it.

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Two places to discover

Amazon A blue morpho, an owl butterfly, leafcutter ants, a bird-eating tarantula, a giant centipede and a titan beetle. 6 bugs Cloud forest A Hercules beetle, an orchid bee, a glasswing, an eighty-eight butterfly, a helicopter damselfly and a harlequin beetle. 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.

The richest place on Earth

Nowhere has more kinds of insect than the forests of South America. Scientists think that most of them have still not been named.

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