moderneopets you read that right; since the new neopet is a shitty mess, someone kindly recreated the old website! you can give petpetpets to your petpets, which are... insects!! also, some neopets and petpets are direct references, especially with the fairy paintbrush.
animal crossing classic game where you can collect a bunch of bugs
pokemon basically a bug catching simulator... also bug-types pokemons
webbed cute little adventure game about a peacock spider
in board games
hive chess-like strategy game with bugs; A-WW-E-SOME
trivia
in greek mythology, achilles commands soldiers called the myrmidons, ants turned into warriors by zeus in answer to a king's prayer to repopulate his country after a plague.
charles darwin was a big fan of insects, notably butterflies and beetles, way more than zoology.
the entomology department of the university of illinois has held an annual 'insect fear film festival' for the past decades, at which movies with big insects are screened. after each film, members of the department bring out live examples of the corresponding arthropods and pass them among the audience while they explain the biological implausibilities of giant insects on earth (even though they really existed)
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