les insectes
Have you ever wondered how to say different kinds of insects (les insectes) in French? On this page you’ll find a complete vocabulary list for french insect words. Some of the translations are quite fun! For example the word for centipede is “le mille-pates“, which literally means, “the thousand feet” as “centipede” is Latin for “hundred feet”. Another fun translation is “la mante religieuse“, which means “religious mantis” or the English, “praying mantis”.
| ant | un fourmi |
| aphid | un puceron |
| bed bug | une punaise |
| bee | une abeille |
| beetle | un scarabée, un coléoptère |
| butterfly | un papillon |
| carpenter ant | un fourmi charpentière |
| caterpillar | une chenille |
| centipede | le mille-pattes |
| cockroach | un cafard, une blatte |
| cricket | un grillon |
| damselfly | un demoiselle |
| dragonfly | une libellule |
| dung beetle | un bousier |
| earwig | un perce-oreille |
| fire ant | un fourmi rouge |
| firefly, lightning bug | un ver luisant, mouche à feu |
| flea | une puce |
| fly | une mouche |
| fruit fly | une drosophile, une mouche du vinaigre |
| gnat | un moucheron |
| grasshopper | une sauterelle |
| gypsy moth | un bombyx disparate |
| hornet | un frelon |
| horse fly | un taon |
| house fly | une mouche domestique |
| insect | un insect |
| Japanese beetle | un scarabée japonais |
| June bug | un hanneton commun |
| lacewing | une chrysope |
| ladybug | une coccinelle |
| leafhopper | une cicadelle |
| locust | une locuste, une sauterelle |
| louse | un pou |
| maggot | un asticot |
| matmorphasis | la métamorphose |
| mayfly | un éphémère |
| mosquito | un moustique |
| moth | un paipillon nocturne |
| praying mantila mante religieuse | |
| scorpion | un scorpion |
| silkwarm | un ver à soie |
| spider | une araignée |
| stink bug | une punaise |
| termite | un termite |
| tick | une tique |
| walking stick | une canne |
| wasp | une guêpe |
| worm | un ver |
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- Insect names (polyglotclub.com)
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