List of 50+ Insects in Spanish with examples

Insects are everywhere, be it within your house, the air, the ground, under the soil, the sea, over the water and even in one’s skin!!!! Yeah you heard me right. The estimated number of insect species in the world is about 5.5 million and even in that only 1 million insect species are named. This means that roughly 80% of insects have yet to be discovered. How can you go a single day without hearing the buzz of a bee or a fly or without seeing a fruit fly or a worm? Seeing as that they are everywhere, it becomes of great importance that you learn the vocabulary list of insects in Spanish.

In order to improve your Spanish vocabulary, you must learn the list of insects in Spanish. An interesting question is you should be learning how to talk about insects in Spanish but also how to incorporate these words into coherent sentences. Thus you need to know the vocabulary of insects in Spanish along with descriptive example sentences so that you are able to learn and immerse properly. And this is exactly what we are going to do here!!!

Topics

1. How to say insects in Spanish
2. Butterfly in Spanish
3. Common insects in Spanish
4. All kinds of Bugs
5. Stinging insects
6. Pet insects in Spanish
7. Verbs related to insects
8. Spanish Common phrases
9. Parts of an insect in Spanish

How to say insects in Spanish?

• WORD: The Spanish translation for “The insect” is “El insecto”
  • EXAMPLE SENTENCE: “Cockroaches are insects.” à Las cucarachas son insectos.
• WORD: The Spanish translation for “The worm” is “El gusano”
  • EXAMPLE SENTENCE: “How many worms do you want?” à ¿Cuántos gusanos quieres?

Learn about the butterfly in Spanish

When you think of a beautiful insect, what do you see? Of course you think of the beautiful butterfly! The butterfly is very colourful, pretty and is a sight to behold. When we see something magical in movies, there are always butterflies flying about with colours galore. Would it not be perfectly fitting if we learnt about the butterfly in Spanish before we step into other insects (pun intended of course!!!)? Let us learn about the butterfly in Spanish with example sentences.

• ENGLISH: What is the translation for “butterfly life cycle” in Spanish?
  • SPANISH: Spanish translation for “Life cycle of a butterfly” is “ciclo de vida de una mariposa”
• ENGLISH: What is the translation for “Monarch butterfly” in Spanish?
  • SPANISH: Spanish translation for “Monarch Butterfly” is “mariposa monarca”

Common insects in Spanish

While there are billions of insects in the world, when you say the word insect in Spanish or English, you only think of a select few which we see every day. Some insects are more common and commonly used in conversations than other insects. So it is necessary that you learn the vocabulary list of these common insects in Spanish. This will help you hold a conversation easily. Let us learn about the different common insects in Spanish with example sentences.

Bugs in Spanish

Ok I’m going to be upfront with you. If there is one thing I hate in this beautiful world, its bugs and creepy crawlies!!! When you say the word bugs in Spanish or in English, you can see me cringe!! But that gives me more the reason to memorize the wordlist so that I can explain to people that I hate them and I like to avoid them. As with insects, a few bugs are far more common across the world. So it is necessary that you learn the vocabulary list of these common bugs in Spanish. Along with the list of insects in Spanish, Let us learn the different bugs in Spanish with example sentences.

Stinging insects in Spanish

You put your hand on a flower and all of a sudden there is a super sharp pain in your finger!!!! You scream and throw down the flower. What on earth was that? IT’S A BEE!!!! DAMN YOU GIT STUNG BY A BEE!!! You have to say this to your doctor in Spanish. How do you do that without knowing the list of insects in Spanish which sting? Let us learn the different stinging insects in Spanish with example sentences.

Pet insects in Spanish

Do you know that it is very common across the world for people to have insects as pets? Children love having insects as pets as they are hardy and easy to maintain. They do not require constant care and can take care of themselves. Let us learn the different insects which can be kept as pets in Spanish with example sentences.

Hopping insects in Spanish

Have you ever looked at a grasshopper? It looks like a small machine. It can jump up an incredible height, can fly and looks freaky as hell!!! I HATE THEM but my brother loves them!!!! Let us learn the different hopping insects in Spanish with example sentences.

Insect related Verbs in Spanish

Now that we have learnt about so many insects in Spanish, let us now focus on some common Spanish Verbs which will help us form sentences using these insects. For example, you need to say that the caterpillar crawls but the butterfly flies. You need to say that the bee lives in a hive while an ant lives in an anthill. You need to say that a cockroach has antennae while a wasp has wings. So basically you need to know a few verbs and nouns related to acts which the insects perform in Spanish. In this section let us learn about a few verbs related to insects in Spanish

Parts of an insect in Spanish

With the Spanish insect related verbs done, let us proceed with the parts of an insect in Spanish and other nouns related to insects in Spanish

Insect related phrases in Spanish

I have explained all over this post about how I hate insects and how much I am terrified of them. So what do I say in Spanish when I see one? Let us learn the different common insect related phrases in Spanish with example sentences.

Conclusion

We have learnt a lot about the most common insects in Spanish and also about what they do, where they live, the butterfly life cycle in Spanish and also many more phrases. Hope you had fun learning.