Bug Names

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(A.N. -This chapter includes names of bugs, the scientific names, and anything bug-related I could find! A lot of the scientific names or families can be shortened and personalized<3)


A:

Ant: Eusocial insects of the family Formicidae.

Aphid: Small sap-sucking insects.

Avilys: From Lithuanian, meaning hive.

Aculeata: A group of insects, including stinging bees, wasps, and some ants.

Alveo: From Latin, translating to hive.

Antennae: A bug's feelers, paired appendages on the head.

Arthropod: An invertabrit.

Alary: From the muscles along the dorsal diaphragm, called alary muscles.

Arachnid: Meaning Spider.

Andrena: Mining bee genus.

Attacus: A saturniid moth genus.

Apoidea/Apidae: Of the bee family.

Anteny: The Polish term for antenna.

Aristaeus: Greek God of beekeeping and tamer of bees.

Austeja: The Lithuanian Goddess of bees.

Alate: Meaning "having wings".

Andrenidae: Of the mining bees family.

Ambrosia: A fungus cultivated by wood beetles.

Awa: From Maori, meaning hornet.

Anansi: West African trickster spider God.

Aeróga: The Irish word for antenna.

Ah-Muzencab: The Mayan God of bees and honey.

Admiral: Relating to the type of butterfly of the same name.

Ala: The Spanish word for wing.

Adain: From the Welsh word for wing.

Apocrita: One of two suborders of the insect order Hymenoptera.

Avis: Derived from the Spanish word, Avispa, which translates to wasp.

Ameise: Meaning ant in German.



B:

Bumblebee/Bee: Flying insect that builds hives and some make honey.

Bri: From Albanian, meaning hornet.

Bug: General term for insect.

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