--- title: "Insects (Insecta) (Page 2 of 2) | AnimalTracks.wiki" description: "Six-legged masters of flight, metamorphosis, compound eyes, and social supercolonies." image: "https://animaltracks.wiki/icon-512.png" canonical: "https://animaltracks.wiki/clades/insects/page/2/" --- # Insects (Insecta) (Page 2 of 2) > Six-legged masters of flight, metamorphosis, compound eyes, and social supercolonies. **46 species in this collection.** - [Giant Prickly Stick Insect](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-prickly-stick-insect/) (*Extatosoma tiaratum*) - **Superpower**: Hatches looking and behaving like an ant - **Musical Match**: Beach House (Dream Pop & Shoegaze) - [Giant Water Bug](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/giant-water-bug/) (*Lethocerus americanus*) - **Superpower**: A young bug reduced a tadpole bigger than itself to shriveled skin in an hour - **Musical Match**: Electric Light Orchestra (70s Pop & Glam Disco) - [Green Drake Mayfly](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/green-drake-mayfly/) (*Ephemera danica*) - **Superpower**: Detects water by the horizontal polarization of the light it reflects - **Musical Match**: Sigur Rós (Post-Rock & Cinematic Orchestral) - [Hercules Beetle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hercules-beetle/) (*Dynastes hercules*) - **Superpower**: Horns that clamp a rival like pliers, then lift and slam him down, mandibles geared to move in complete synchrony, and elytra that turn from khaki-green to black once humidity rises above 80 percent. - **Musical Match**: Sleep (Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom) - [Housefly](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/housefly/) (*Musca domestica*) - **Superpower**: Tastes food with its feet and coats hard food in saliva and stomach fluid to break it down - **Musical Match**: The Breeders (90s Grunge & Heavy Alt-Rock) - [Human Botfly](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/human-botfly/) (*Dermatobia hominis*) - **Superpower**: Glues its eggs to a blood-feeding carrier, usually a mosquito or a tick, which carries them to a warm-blooded host - **Musical Match**: Green Day (Pop-Punk & 2000s Alt-Rock) - [Hummingbird Hawk-Moth](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/hummingbird-hawk-moth/) (*Macroglossum stellatarum*) - **Superpower**: Hovers in front of flowers, and the sensors in its antennae help it control rapid turns - **Musical Match**: Covet (Math Rock & Instrumental Virtuoso) - [Luna Moth](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/luna-moth/) (*Actias luna*) - **Superpower**: Spinning hindwing tails that gave tailed moths a survival advantage of about 47% over tailless ones against big brown bats - **Musical Match**: Augustus Pablo (Roots Reggae & Heavy Dub) - [Monarch Butterfly](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/monarch-butterfly/) (*Danaus plexippus*) - **Superpower**: Eastern monarchs migrate up to 3,000 miles using a sun compass - **Musical Match**: Pink Floyd (Psychedelic Rock & Neo-Psych) - [Mound-Building Termite](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/mound-building-termite/) (*Macrotermes bellicosus*) - **Superpower**: Queens and kings that can live as long as 20 years in the lab, in a colony that grows its own fungus - **Musical Match**: Terry Riley (Krautrock & Electronic Pioneers) - [Orchid Mantis](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/orchid-mantis/) (*Hymenopus coronatus*) - **Superpower**: Color that bees cannot tell apart from real flowers, drawing in wild pollinators at an even higher rate than flowers do. - **Musical Match**: Cocteau Twins (Dream Pop & Shoegaze) - [Periodical Cicada](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/periodical-cicada/) (*Magicicada septendecim*) - **Superpower**: Emerges from underground with its whole brood, once every 17 years - **Musical Match**: Glenn Branca (Industrial Noise & Avant-Garde Experimental) - [Red Imported Fire Ant](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/red-imported-fire-ant/) (*Solenopsis invicta*) - **Superpower**: Links bodies with its nestmates to form a waterproof raft - **Musical Match**: LCD Soundsystem (Dance-Punk & Electroclash) - [Sacred Scarab](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/sacred-scarab/) (*Scarabaeus sacer*) - **Superpower**: Rolled dung balls of 16 to 86 cc in a Turkish study, and holds flight heat in its thorax - **Musical Match**: Kavinsky (80s Retrowave & Synthwave) - [Seven-Spot Ladybird](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/seven-spot-ladybird/) (*Coccinella septempunctata*) - **Superpower**: Bleeds toxic alkaloids from its leg joints - **Musical Match**: The White Stripes (Garage Blues & Swamp Rock) - [Silkworm](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/silkworm/) (*Bombyx mori*) - **Superpower**: Spins a single silk thread up to 1,800 metres long - **Musical Match**: My Bloody Valentine (Dream Pop & Shoegaze) - [Silverfish](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/silverfish/) (*Lepisma saccharinum*) - **Superpower**: Keeps molting as an adult and can go up to a year without food - **Musical Match**: Laurie Anderson (Art Pop & Baroque Pop) - [Spotted Lanternfly](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/spotted-lanternfly/) (*Lycorma delicatula*) - **Superpower**: Stores a defensive chemical from tree of heaven, and birds in a study avoided lanternflies collected from it - **Musical Match**: Kylie Minogue (2000s Pop & R&B Anthem) - [Stag Beetle](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/stag-beetle/) (*Lucanus cervus*) - **Superpower**: Antler-like mandibles used to pry rival males loose and even throw them. - **Musical Match**: Architects (Modern Metalcore & Djent) - [Tsetse Fly](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/tsetse-fly/) (*Glossina morsitans*) - **Superpower**: Feeds its young on "milk" from glands inside the mother - **Musical Match**: Mala (Heavy UK Grime & Sub-Bass) - [Western Honeybee](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/honeybee/) (*Apis mellifera*) - **Superpower**: Waggle-dance directions read from the sun and gravity, a barbed sting that costs its owner her life, and a nest built from hexagonal wax cells. - **Musical Match**: Wizkid (Afrobeats & Modern Amapiano) - [Yellow Fever Mosquito](https://animaltracks.wiki/animals/yellow-fever-mosquito/) (*Aedes aegypti*) - **Superpower**: Detects the left-handed or right-handed form of a chemical in mammal odour - **Musical Match**: Johann Sebastian Bach (Neo-Classical & Baroque Chamber) - 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