Insects with K

• Katydid

  Yes! A real insect; katydids are bush crickets.

• Killer bee

  Yes! Common name for Africanized honey bee.

• Kissing bug

  Yes! Well-known triatomine insect (true bug).

• Killer ant

  A fierce-sounding common name for an ant species. 🐜

• Killer wasp

  Wasp with lethal sting; insects, not spiders

• King beetle

  A beetle common name, fitting this insect category. 🪲

• Killer ants

  Nickname for aggressive ant species that attack in swarms.

• keyhole wasp

  Yes! A real wasp known as the keyhole wasp.

• Kamehameha butterfly

  Yes! Real butterfly species from Hawaii.

• Killing bug

  A recognized nickname for predatory assassin bugs. 🐞

• Killer wasps

  Colloquial term for wasps known for painful, dangerous stings.

• King ant

  A common name used for certain ant species. 🐜

• Killer hornet

  Hornet is a wasp; some are very dangerous

• King bee

  Term for dominant male bee, usually called drone.

• king bug

  A nickname found among several true bug species. 🐞

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• Killer bugs

  A plural name for predatory insects in the true bug group. 🐞

• King fly

  A fly common name, and flies are insects. 🪰

• king crab

  A crab is a crustacean, not an insect.

• killer

  A predatory assassin bug is a true insect.

• Killer moth

  Common name for various moths that kill clothes

• Knight beetle

  A beetle is an insect, so this fits the category.

• Kite bug

  A genuine insect name for a delicate winged bug.

• Killer beetle

  Used for some predatory beetles in fiction

The words in the list Insects with K come from players of the word game City, Country, River.