Name that Bug

Guess the common names of the bugs pictured below

This quiz is not based on scientific taxonomy, duh

If at first you don't succeed, be more specific. It that doesn't work, be less specific

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Monarch Butterfly


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		Fruit Fly

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93 Comments

+20

Level 45

Jun 28, 2013

The whole quiz made me cringe, but I gave up upon seeing the cockroach.

+11

Level 31

Jul 8, 2013

This quiz was disgusting. I feel gross and scared now :(

Level 69

Aug 29, 2013

I am really happy that I did not recognize the earwig at all.

Level 81

Aug 29, 2013

Seen lots of earwigs before but didn't know what they were called... only one I missed along with fruit fly.

Level 74

Jan 3, 2020

I wet to a small town called Badger in California and camped there and there were SO many earwigs

+14

Level 46

Aug 29, 2013

I'm really happy it accepted "roly poly" for pill bug, because I could not for the life of me remember its real name.

Level 60

Nov 23, 2019

And in the UK, woodlouse is what I call it.

Level 74

Apr 5, 2023

I put "chiggiwig" which is a very localised term (couldn't remember woodlouse), and it was accepted!

Level 84

May 18, 2024

I put potato bug, and it was accepted (Canada)

Level 75

Feb 28, 2025

What we call potato bugs here in Missouri are the Colorado potato beetle, nearly a half inch in size with cream colored wings with dark stripes. They can decimate a row of potatoes. During growing season I head to the potato patch every day with a can of soapy water and pull the beetles and larvae off the leaves and drop them in the can to send them on their way to bug heaven.

Level 85

Dec 20, 2024

Can't believe slater was accepted 😂

Level 43

Aug 29, 2013

It's odd not to have to name the species for anything but spiders. I know it would make the quiz ridiculously hard, but still, it's odd.

Level 28

Aug 29, 2013

Wow, people got worked up about this quiz.

Level 40

Dec 5, 2013

Accept slater for pill bug

Level 32

Mar 9, 2014

Please accept hornet for wasp.

Level 47

Apr 19, 2014

They're different animals.

Level 62

Sep 27, 2015

Every hornet is a wasp, but not every wasp is a hornet. It's like saying to accept rat for rodent when you're being shown a picture of a rabbit. That being said, I'm not sure whether that's a hornet of some sort or a yellow-jacket in the picture (both of which are wasps).

Level 18

May 22, 2019

@Master Kenobi

Rabbit are part of the rodentia family. They’re from the leporidae family.

Level 71

Jan 10, 2025

@Dogdogdog1

Rodentia is an order, not a family.

@MasterKenobi

Rabbits are not rodents. Rabbits are in the order Lagomorpha. As far as orders go, the two groups are relatively closely related but they are still quite distinct.

Level 47

Apr 19, 2014

What are those grasshoppers doing???

Level 12

May 29, 2014

I'm never pressing the random quiz button again. I'm just glad crane fly wasn't in there. Still a good quiz though once you put all the horrible pics to one side.

Level 73

Sep 29, 2018

@Aar0nC craneflies hunt mosquitoes, don't be ungrateful :P

Level 67

Jul 26, 2019

Lol

+12

Level 51

Jun 16, 2014

Please accept "lawyer" for "mosquito" as both are blood-sucking parasites.

Level 45

Jul 20, 2014

That is hilarious, except I might be a lawyer, only I plan to be a good one, not one of the ones that can be classified as blood-sucking parasites. I have far too much dignity to let that happen.

+10

Level 75

Feb 28, 2016

My son is an attorney and he is not a "blood-sucker". If people only realized how much pro bono work most of them do - only the greedy ones get the headlines. But in every case there is a winner and a loser, and of course the loser thinks the other party's lawyer is bad.

Level 75

Feb 26, 2024

10 years later - I wonder if smartcookie has morphed into a blood-sucking parasite yet...

Level 81

Feb 17, 2019

You insult my cousin.

Level 48

Jun 27, 2014

LOL! We always called earwigs "pincer bugs" which I would think would be acceptable if you are going to accept "roly poly". I also agree that the first pic

is a millipede. Why are people so uptight about bugs & insects?

Level 45

Jul 20, 2014

I was looking at the black widow picture and felt a brush on my heel and almost screamed my head off before I realized it was just a hair.

Level 55

Feb 29, 2016

Oh God! I understand your terror; I would have done the same!

Level 33

Jul 29, 2014

Missed cockroach and pill bug. I've only ever heard them referred to as sowbugs, please make that an acceptable answer!

Level 33

Aug 25, 2014

Would have gotten the fruit fly if it was a better picture...

Level 73

Sep 29, 2018

Like if it was photographed with a bunch of rotten fruit?

Level 80

Dec 23, 2018

The photograph is actually of the vinegar fly, "drosophila repleta".

The common fruit fly is "drosophila melanogaster".

It looks a bit similar, but is not the same thing. A google image search shows a couple of wrongly attributed images of the vinegar fly as the fruit fly and I think this is what has gone wrong here.

Level 34

Oct 1, 2014

here in Australia we call the black widow ; red back spiders (I'm not sure if the same thing ) but may you please add to your suggestions

Level 74

Jan 15, 2019

they are not the same spider as the have different red markings. The black widow has the red hour glass whereas the red back has a red stripe down the middle of its back

Level 81

Oct 6, 2014

Not pill bug --- sow bug -- that's what Canadians know them by. Add sow bug to the list.

Level 33

Dec 23, 2018

But not everyone is Canadian

Level 62

Mar 24, 2024

I'm Canadian. I call them Potato Bugs.

Level 55

Feb 5, 2015

We call the so called Pill Bug a Slater in Australia.

Level 28

May 15, 2022

then who calls them roly polys?

Level 75

Mar 5, 2015

I have a huge garden, and I see every one of these each summer in my garden except scorpions and tarantulas. (Thank goodness.) I consider many of them friends - ladybugs, bees and wasps, praying mantises, dragonflies, and even the spiders. I could happily do without the mosquitoes, although a few catnip leaves rubbed on the skin repels them pretty well. People may find them gross but without insects to pollinate our food crops and help compost waste, we would all likely die. So next time you see one maybe say thank you instead of, 'Ew!"

Level 70

Jul 29, 2015

The European Wasp is not native to Australia and was accidentally introduced a few years ago. It does no good and is a real menace, not only at picnics or outside dining venues etc. but is a menace to the native insects.

Level 75

Feb 28, 2025

I agree, invasive species are a menace. I don’t consider everything in my garden a friend, but people should learn the difference and not kill every insect they see, just because they are afraid of them. I would kill a black widow or a brown recluse spider, but not a wolf or a garden spider.

Level 7

Jun 1, 2015

Can you add ticks? It's a bug, of course.

Level 70

Oct 28, 2015

Thank god somebody else calls it a Pill Bug and not a Roly Poly.

Level 42

Feb 28, 2016

Your Pillbug has always been a Granny Grey where i live

Level 57

Feb 29, 2016

I think in the interests of the world you should remove the pillbug which has a gazillion different names around the world. Thank you.

Level 67

Feb 29, 2016

Am I the minority thinking I've never seen a black cricket!? They are brown in CA.

Level 55

Feb 29, 2016

The ones we have here in KS look like the one in the picture. They sometimes look black, but they are actually (as far I can tell--I've caught quite a good many inside and put them outside) just very dark brown. :)

Level 20

Feb 29, 2016

I missed fruit fly. I typed simply, 'fly' hoping it would accept. Shouldn't fly be accepted?

Level 51

Apr 20, 2016

Well, a fruit fly is not usually called simply a fly. However, since they accept general answers like "bee" and "wasp" for some of the others, you'd think so. I couldn't figure out it was a fruit fly, myself. I guess I just haven't seen them that close up.

Level 74

Jan 15, 2019

considering the word "fly" is added underneath the picture with a blank line before it indicates that a particular kind of fly is to be given as the answer

Level 51

Apr 20, 2016

Please accept sow bug and rollypolly. Tried both of these and wasted time, trying to think of pill bug.

Level 30

Oct 13, 2016

Was there a specific reason you chose a picture of two grasshoppers fornicating or was that just for fun?

Level 86

Apr 2, 2017

Maybe they're married.

Level 61

Dec 21, 2017

I think they're wrestling

Level 67

Nov 7, 2016

I've never heard of Pill Bug before. I've always known of it as Rolly Polly.

Level 68

Feb 11, 2017

Being Australian I tried Red Back for the Black Widow; and Funnel Web for the Tarantula. But I got them right on my second goes. I wonder if all of the Aussies claiming that a Red Back and a Black Widow are the same have ever seen a Red Back? The Red Backs I have seen have had a single red stripe down the middle of a black back. The body is a similar shape to this black widow, but the legs are long and spindly and nothing like the black widow in this picture.

Level 47

Feb 11, 2017

I kept trying larvae for termites because I couldn't think of em

Level 70

Apr 18, 2018

Just recently I found out that Termites are Cockroaches that have mutated and all the termites in the world produce 11% of the Global Methane production.

Level 75

Oct 4, 2017

Get a grip, people. It says in the description of the quiz how exact they want the answers. Also this is an on line quiz not a biology mid term. Lighten up.

Level 29

Oct 30, 2017

I'm infuriated Rollie Pollie isn't accepted as an answer for "Pill Bug"

Level ∞

Apr 17, 2018

If that makes you mad, I'd hate to see you in Manila traffic.

Level 81

May 17, 2018

Manila traffic is downright meditative next to Cairo or Riyadh traffic.

Level 40

Dec 24, 2018

I've seen people in Israel driving on the sidewalks regularly. Apparently they still think that they're in IDF military vehicles.

Level 81

Jul 26, 2019

Again, Israel is a motorists' paradise next to Saudi Arabia or Egypt. And quite a bit better than the Philippines, too.

Level 10

Jan 16, 2018

I may be wrong but I wrote woodlouse for that pill bug but I'm pretty sure pill bugs ≠ woodlouse? Idk tho

Level 83

Apr 18, 2018

All pill bugs are woodlice, but not all woodlice are pill bugs, according to Wikipedia.

Level 39

Apr 17, 2018

Disgusting quiz but I got 100% so I must know my bugs:D

I wrote slater for pill bug and it worked but otherwise I would have tried woodlouse.

Level 33

Dec 23, 2018

Quizmaster, I want to say something, a scorpion is technically not an insect, no offence :(

Level 76

Dec 23, 2018

This quiz isn't about insects.

Level 65

Dec 23, 2018

Put all of them in a jar and see who comes out on top.

A cage match. I'm going with the millipede.

Level 81

Dec 23, 2018

For those who enjoyed this quiz, here's another one like it:

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/106934/creepy-crawler-pictures

Level 65

Dec 23, 2018

A scorpion is not really a 'bug' - which to me means insects and spiders. Weird too that specific names of the spiders and fruit fly are required but generics are accepted for other stuff. So sad that people find wild creatures 'disgusting'!

Level 70

Feb 17, 2019

It depends on whether the scorpion is in a photo or in your bed.......... BTW a scorpion is an 'Arachnid' in with the spiders:

Level 79

Dec 26, 2018

I got a 100% because I believe it is important to know more about your enemies than your friends.

Level 20

Feb 17, 2019

You could have included crickets

Level 20

Feb 17, 2019

Are you kidding me I didn't know it was a cricket.

Level 73

May 22, 2019

Got fruit fly. Got 17/20. I hate bugs.

Level 73

Feb 13, 2020

Okay that does not look like a cricket.

Level 70

May 17, 2020

There are about 900 species of cricket, so to fit everyone we would have to have 900 photos in the quiz

Level 81

Jul 31, 2020

I'm all itchy after taking this quiz.

Level 80

Oct 5, 2021

Most unpleasant accumulation of 3 points. Not going to retake it to improve my score

Level 28

May 15, 2022

where the ant?

Level 70

Jan 17, 2023

Being from Reading (UK) and eternally optimistic, I tried cheeselog for woodlouse.

It didn't work, which is disappointing but not surprising. There are so many different names for this bug and many of them are hyper-local. If Quizmaster does decide to update to include more regional terms for woodlice I'd be overjoyed - even if cheeselog doesn't make the cut :)

Level 48

Jun 22, 2023

It took so much effort to complete this before clicking off; I am not a fan of bugs

Level 73

Aug 22, 2023

With the exception of butterfly and a couple others these are all disgusting I hate them. Officially my least favorite Jetpunk quiz

Level 62

Jul 11, 2024

Pill bugs have too many names to be any good on a quiz.

Level 85

Aug 13, 2024

20/20 I love our creepy crawly friends

Level 53

Sep 27, 2024

im shocked and disgusted that i know all of these

Level 42

Feb 19, 2025

Cute animals! But could you please allow isopod as a correct answer?

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