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Animal Crossing (GameCube) Bug Guide |
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The first step to catching a bug is to purchase a net from Tom Nook's shop. It costs 500 bells, and you'll need to make sure you have an empty space in your pocket before purchasing it. He will not always have one in stock, so it may be a few days before you are able to obtain a net. He changes his item stock every day.
Tom Nook will explain how to use the net when you buy it from him, but here is how you use it. After purchasing the net from Tom Nook, you need to equip it. To do this, enter your item screen with the Y button and scroll around until the finger is pointing to the picture of the net. Select it with the A Button. Next, scroll over to the small picture of you and hit the A Button again when the finger lands on the picture. When you go outside, you should be holding your net.
The most important thing to do when catching a bug on land or on a tree is to sneak. You can sneak by holding down the A Button. Simply hitting the A Button will swing the net, and will not allow you to sneak. Also, you can only sneak within an acre, so you cannot cross acres while you are sneaking. If you accidentally start to sneak in the wrong acre, try moving away from the bug and releasing the A Button there, so you don't disturb it. When you come up to the bug you'd like to catch, make sure you are close enough but not too close, and release the A Button. If you were in the right spot, you will catch a bug! When catching a bug on the tree, the space in between you and the tree should be a little more than the size of a person.
When catching a bug that is moving in the air, you do not want to sneak. Instead, you want to walk as quickly as possible with your net equipped. When you are directly facing the bug and are close to it, swing your net and you will catch it! For some people, it takes a little while to get the hang of this, but it will be easy once you try it a few times. 
I would also suggest keeping the volume up on your TV. Some bugs, like cicidas, make a unique sound when they are in the game, and you can locate them by listening to their noise! If you hunt bugs often enough, you will be able to recognize each bug that makes a noise by their sound.
Below I have provided a list of the name of every bug, the price they sell for, their location, time available, months available, and for some the peak times and months, in that order. This list is in alphabetical order.
| Bug's Name |
Price |
Location |
Time |
Month(s) |
| Ant |
80 bells |
Candy/Spoiled Turnips
| All Day |
All Year |
| Bagworm |
250 bells |
In Trees |
All Day |
October throuch March |
| Banded Dragonfly |
4,500 bells |
Anywhere |
8AM through 5PM |
July through August |
| Bee |
4,500 bells |
In Trees |
All Day |
All Year |
| Bell Cricket |
430 bells |
In Grass |
5PM through 8AM
7PM through 4AM |
September through October |
| Brown Cicada |
200 bells |
On Trees |
8AM through 5PM
8AM through 4PM |
July through August |
| Cockroach |
5 bells |
On Trees/Flowers/Spoiled Turnips |
All Day |
March through November |
| Common Butterfly |
80 bells |
Anywhere |
8AM through 5PM
8AM through 4PM |
March through October
April through June |
| Common Dragonfly |
130 bells |
Anywhere |
8AM through 5PM |
May through June |
| Cricket |
130 bells |
In Grass |
5PM through 8AM
7PM through 4PM |
September through November
September |
| Darner Dragonfly |
200 bells |
Anywhere |
8AM through 5PM |
June through August
June |
| Drone Beetle |
80 bells |
On Trees |
All Day
4AM through 8AM, 5PM through 7PM |
July through August |
| Dynastid Beetle |
1,350 bells |
On Trees |
7PM through 8AM |
July through August |
| Evening Cicada |
850 bells |
On Trees |
4AM through 8AM,
4PM through 7PM |
July thorugh August |
| Firefly |
250 bells |
Near Water |
7PN through 4AM
7PM through 11PM |
June |
| Flat Stag Beetle |
200 bells |
On Trees |
7PM through 8AM |
June through August |
| Giant Beetle |
10,000 bells |
On Trees |
11PM through 8AM |
July through August |
| Grasshopper |
130 bells |
In Grass |
8AM through 5PM
8AM through 4PM |
August through September |
| Jewel Beetle |
3,000 bells |
On Trees |
8AM through 4PM |
July through August |
| Ladybug |
130 bells |
On Flowers |
8AM through 5PM
8AM through 4PM |
March through July, October
March through May
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| Long Locust |
200 bells |
In Grass |
8AM through 5PM
8AM through 4PM |
August through November
September |
| Longhorn Beetle |
200 bells |
Anywhere |
8AM through 5PM |
June through August |
| Mantis |
430 bells |
On Flowers |
8AM through 5PM
8AM through 4PM |
August through October
September through October |
| Mole Cricket |
200 bells |
Underground |
All Day |
November through May
December through April |
| Migratory Locust |
1,350 bells |
In Grass |
8AM through 7PM
8AM through 4PM |
September through November
September through October |
| Mosquito |
130 bells |
Anywhere |
8AM through 11PM |
May through September
December through April |
| Mountain Beetle |
2,000 bells |
On Trees |
7PM through 8AM |
July through August |
| Pill Bug |
250 bells |
Under Rocks |
All Day |
All Year
July through August |
| Pine Cricket |
100 bells |
In Grass |
5PM through 8AM
7PM through 4AM |
September through October |
| Pondskater |
130 bells |
Main Pond/Holding Ponds |
8AM through 7PM |
June through September |
| Purple Butterfly |
2,000 bells |
Anywhere |
8AM through 5PM |
June through August |
| Red Dragonfly |
80 bells |
Anywhere |
8AM through 7PM
4PM through 5PM |
September through October |
| Robust Cicada |
300 bells |
On Trees |
8AM through 5PM
8AM through 4PM |
July through August |
| Saw Stag Beetle |
2,000 bells |
On Trees |
7PM through 8AM |
July through August |
| Snail |
250 bells |
On Flowers |
All Day |
April through September |
| Spider |
300 bells |
In Trees |
All Day |
April through September |
| Spotted Ladybug |
200 bells |
On Flowers |
8AM through 5PM
8AM through 4PM |
March through July, October
September through October |
| Tiger Butterfly |
200 bells |
Anywhere |
8AM through 5PM
8AM through 4PM |
April through September
May through June |
| Walker Cicada |
400 bells |
On Trees |
8AM through 5PM
8AM through 4PM |
July through September |
| Yellow Butterfly |
80 bells |
Anywhere |
8AM through 5PM
8AM through 4PM |
March through October
April through June |
(Times in blue are peak times.) |
Written By: DL Staff, blizfan
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