Insect Name Generator

How this list was compiled: 60 words that open the English common names of real insects (size, range, home, color and marking). A word was kept only if a script found, on 2026-10-02, an English Wikipedia page titled with that word and one of the insect groups of this page; one such title is given on each line (https://en.wikipedia.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0). A title can be a redirect, so it shows that the name is in use, not that it is the official name of one species. 14 candidates were cut (14 a Wikipedia page title), among them Greater, Broad, Coastal, Upland, Migrant, Fen. Read again on 2026-10-03: every title was looked up again; the six plain color words were cut (they doubled the color features) and 16 words added, each with a title found that day; the title given for Garden was changed, because the old one leads to a page on a ball game. Licence: own selection; each word is shown with an English Wikipedia page title that uses it (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How this list was compiled: Our own list of 56 feature words, written on 2026-10-02. So that no result is a real species with a word in front, a script looked up every feature with every insect group of this page as an English Wikipedia page title that day (3,540 titles), and every feature that made the name of a real insect was cut; a sample of 1,000 full three-word names was then looked up the same way (none matched). 52 candidates were cut (50 a Wikipedia page title; 1 a rude word inside or across the join; 1 taken out on a second reading), among them Dune, Emerald, Copper, Bronze, Silver, Sapphire. New species are named every year and no list is complete, so search a name before you use it. Licence: own work

How this list was compiled: 57 real groups of insects by their English common names. Each line follows the opening of its English Wikipedia article, read on 2026-10-02 and again on 2026-10-03 (https://en.wikipedia.org/, CC BY-SA 4.0). The wording is ours. Licence: own selection and wording; facts from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)