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In the 2007 DreamWorks animated film Bee Movie, according to all known laws of aviation, this is why a bee should not be able to fly.
Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground
Unlike the Talking Cricket in the 1883 children's book The Adventures of Pinocchio, who is smashed to death with a mallet when he insists that Pinocchio must either attend school or work to function properly in the world, Disney’s Jiminy Cricket is appointed by The Blue Fairy to act as this.
A Conscience
Bug-type Pokémon resembling a green caterpillar with a yellow underside, yellow ring-shaped markings resembling eyes on the sides of its segmented body, and a bright red antenna that releases a stench to repel predators.
Caterpie
In the 2015 indie videogame Undertale by Toby Fox, you encounter a spider mini-boss in the Hotlands named Muffet. She runs a bake sale to raise funds to rescue the spiders trapped in the Ruins, and gets angry at passers-by who do not purchase anything from it despite selling overpriced items for 9999 gold. When attacking, she turns your character this color.
Purple
The middle part of an ant.
Thorax
In the 1998 animated film Antz, a worker ant named Z strives to reconcile his own individuality with the communal work-ethic of the ant colony and his love with the ant-Princess, when General Mandible declares war on the encroaching colony of this insect.
Termites
In the 1998 Disney animated film Mulan, Cri-Kee, given to Mulan by her Grandmother during her trip to the Matchmaker, is based on the Chinese concept of feng shui, where crickets symbolize this.
Good luck
Major character in Disney's 2009 animated feature film The Princess and the Frog. He is a Cajun firefly with a romantic infatuation with the evening star, Evangeline.
Raymond (Ray)
In the 1952 children’s book Charlotte's Web by EB White, when Wilbur the pig is in danger of being slaughtered, Charlotte the spider weaves messages in her web praising him to persuade the farmer to spare his life. This is the first phrase Charlotte wrote.
“Some Pig”
This bug has nearly 360-degree vision, can fly backwards, hover, reach speeds of around 30-35 miles per hour, and is also Washington State's official insect.
Green Darner dragonfly
In the 2018 Marvel film Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scott Lang is grappling with the consequences of his choices as both a superhero and a father when he is approached by Hope and Dr. Hank Pym to fight alongside the Wasp. His ability to help is limited because he has been under house arrest due to his involvement with the Avengers, in violation of this fictional legal document.
Sokovia Accords
In the 2008 animated film Kung Fu Panda, Master Mantis is a member of the Furious Five, trained by Master Shifu. After a difficult first day of training to be the dragon warrior, Mantis performs this traditional Chinese medical technique on Po to relieve his painful muscles.
Acupuncture
This anthropomorphic Bee is the mascot of the Honey Nut Cheerios breakfast cereal commercials
Buzz
In the 2018 Sony animated movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Miles Morales is bitten by a radioactive spider that transforms him into the one and only Spider-Man. This is until he meets Peter Parker, who gives Miles this during a fight with Green Goblin.
Inhibitor chip USB
The Giant Wētā are giant flightless crickets, and some are among the heaviest insects in the world, endemic to this country.
New Zealand
In the 1998 Pixar animated film A Bug’s Life, a colony of ants, in a seasonally dry creekbed known as Ant Island, are forced to give food to a gang of grasshoppers, led by Hopper. The cruelty and extortion end when the protagonist, Flik, rallies the colony, along with a gang of unemployed Circus Bugs, to kill Hopper in this way.
Feed to baby birds
In the 2009 animated film Monsters vs. Aliens, the mad scientist Dr. Cockroach isn’t the only bug-themed character. It features Insectosaurus, a one-inch grub that transformed into a 350-foot monster due to radiation. Although it can shoot silk out of its nose, it has a weakness to this.
Bright lights
Protagonist of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. Ladybug is a Paris superheroine who gains the power of Creation with her Kwami Tikki. But by day, she is a student and budding fashion designer with this name.
Marinette Dupain-Cheng
In the 2023 indie co-op horror game Lethal Company, the Bunker Spiders are territorial ambush creatures that become hostile and attack when an Employee touches one of their webs or gets too close. Developers added an arachnophobia mode to give them a less threatening in-game appearance by replacing all spider entities with this.
The word “SPIDER”
Cicadas spend the majority of their lives underground as nymphs feeding on tree roots before emerging in synchronized broods to mate, lay eggs, and then die in a cycle that lasts this many years.
17 years
In the 1996 film James and the Giant Peach based on the 1961 novel by Roald Dahl, James Henry Trotter is an orphan living with his abusive aunts. After rescuing a spider, James is given magic crocodile tongues that grow a colossal peach when he spills them near an old peach tree. After eating through the peach, James finds several human-sized anthropomorphic invertebrates who help him escape using this method.
Cutting the stem and rolling into the Atlantic Ocean
In many adaptations of Lewis Carrol’s 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, after Alice has been shrunk by a potion labeled 'Drink Me', she meets a hookah-smoking caterpillar who is this many inches tall.
Exactly three inches tall
WALL-E's pet cockroach and only companion before EVE's arrival on Earth. Although never referred to on-screen by name, he is named after a silent film producer and an homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey’s fictional onboard artificial intelligence.
Hal
In the 2016 horror podcast The Magnus Archives by Jonathan Sims, episode 102: Nesting Instinct, François Deschamp does a statement regarding his coworker Benoît Maçon, a deeply depressed, middle-aged man with no meaningful relationships who suddenly became far more upbeat and cheerful and eventually confides in Deschamps that he had fell in love with a woman who turns out to be this type of bug.
Petite Scarabée aka Little Beetle
Dung beetles can push over this many times their own body weight
1,000 time