Piaes/piyaes - cicada
Doron - grasshopper/locust
Kuriat, Kuryat - cricket (Tag. kuliglig)
Sambasamba, Garigari - praying mantis
Ararawan, Dalukdok - mole cricket
Apangat - langaw
Bayangat - bangaw
Andirit - dragonfly
Andirit na duweg - big dragonfly
Andirit dagum - damselfly
Kumpapey - butterfly
Sanggi -
Talakitik - green planthopper
Omog - thrips
Sepsep - brown planthopper
Lukton - locust
Dangew - a stinking bug
Sibaweng - beetle species
Sisimot - a winged termite species
Ampingilan - wasp
Alimbuyugan, Alimbuyungan? - bee species?
Pandoyokan - endemic bee species
Asipet - cockroach
Baboy-baboy - antlion
Tabuney - termite
Kankanti - firefly
Bagsit - hornet
Ants:
Gilata - common reddish-brown ant; general term for ant
Kanit - the brown, smallest ant species with peculiar smell
Asubok - weaver ant, a big species that builds a nest of eggs using leaves up in a tree
Bayatsaw - black, medium-sized ant that moves in a staggered fashion
Ansit - a brown species that is much bigger than the common brown brown gilata
Talakay - the biggest local ant species
Obo - black ants
Bigis - "majority of hairless/harmless caterpillars"
Dangan-dangan - inch worm
Buro
Boroburoan - moth caterpillars with itchy hairs when in contact
Ansasabot - other terms for #3 moth caterpillars but mostly black
Amimilat - moth caterpillars with spikes that can inflict venom when in contact with skin, feared for its capacity to kill goats, cows, even carabaos when accidentally consumed
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