Lexique des insectes
On this page you’ll find a complete vocabulary list for French insect names. 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”.
- un fourmi ant
- un puceron aphid
- une punaise bed bug
- une abeille bee
- un scarabée, un coléoptère beetle
- un papillon butterfly
- un fourmi charpentière carpenter ant
- une chenille caterpillar
- le mille-pattes centipede
- un cafard, une blatte cockroach
- un grillon cricket
- un demoiselle damselfly
- une libellule dragonfly
- un bousier dung beetle
- un perce-oreille earwig
- un fourmi rouge fire ant
- un ver luisant, mouche à feu firefly, lightning bug
- une puce flea
- une mouche fly
- une drosophile, une mouche du vinaigre fruit fly
- un moucheron gnat
- une sauterelle grasshopper
- un bombyx disparate gypsy moth
- un frelon hornet
- un taon horse fly
- une mouche domestique house fly
- un insect insect
- un scarabée japonais Japanese beetle
- un hanneton commun June bug
- une chrysope lacewing
- une coccinelle ladybug
- une cicadelle leafhopper
- une locuste, une sauterelle locust
- un pou louse
- un asticot maggot
- la métamorphose matmorphasis
- la mante religieuse praying mantis
- un éphémère mayfly
- un moustique mosquito
- un paipillon nocturne moth
- un scorpion scorpion
- un ver à soie silkwarm
- une araignée spider
- une punaise stink bug
- un termite termite
- une tique tick
- une canne walking stick
- une guêpe wasp
- un ver worm
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