Insect locations in Heartopia

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Published Feb 19, 2026, 2:24 PM EST

Where to find the various bugs around the island

A Heartopia character stares happily at a butterfly

Insect catching is one of the hobbies you can unlock in Heartopia that allows you to well, catch insects. There are a bunch of different types of bugs to find around the island, and as you level up the hobby, you'll unlock even more to find. Some insects require specific weather or time conditions, so you may have a hard time looking for them if you don't have an idea of when or where to look already.

Below, we explain how the insect catching hobby works in Heartopia, as well as provide a list of all the insects we can confirm in the game so far.

How insect catching works in Heartopia

To catch bugs in Heartopia, you'll need to equip your green bubble wand and click/tap the wand icon or press "F" on PC to swing it. This will send out a bubble straight ahead of you to catch any bugs in your path.

As you hunt around for bugs, you may notice that some only show up from the "Bait the Insects" event that takes place in Onsen Mountain. You can either wait for Naniwa to periodically start these events, or you can go to Onsen Mountain and pay a small fee to start the event up yourself. After leveling up, some of the new insects won't spawn unless it's a specific time of day or there's a specific type of weather.

Just like the other hobbies, leveling up the insect catching hobby will unlock more bugs to catch, as well as passive abilities that increase bug star quality, the range and durability of your bug net, and the ability to "double catch" an additional insect randomly.

Heartopia insect locations list

Below is a list of all the insects that we can confirm so far. Admittedly, our insect catching hobby isn't as up-to-snuff as our fishing or cooking (level seven) due to weather restrictions and time gates, but we'll update this guide as we can confirm more.

You can check what time of day it is by opening your menu and seeing which of the sun/moons is highlighted. The first moon with the "zz" is nighttime, the rising sun is morning, the full sun is daytime, and the moon with a single star is evening.

The list below doesn't include any event-limited insects, like ones from the Winter Frost season.

Insect

Required level

Location

Weather

Time

Apollo	1	Bait the Insects event	Any	Always
Asparagus Beetle	1	Flower Field	Any	Always
Cabbage White	1	Fishing Village	Any	Always
Common Brimstone	1	Suburbs	Any	Always
European Firebug	1	Home	Any	Always
Gold Grasshopper	1	Onsen Mountain	Any	Always
Large Red Damselfly	1	Waterside	Any	Always
Old World Swallowtail	1	Forest	Any	Always
Orange-Tip	1	Central Area	Any	Always
Postman Butterfly	1	Bait the Insects event	Any	Always
Sulkowsky's Morpho	1	Inflatable Insect Attractor only	Any	Always
Amethyst Flower Beetle	2	Home	Rain/snow, rainbows	Always
Bumblebee	2	Flower Field	Any	Always
Common Blue Butterfly	2	Central Area	Any	Always
Four-Spotted Skimmer	2	Suburban Lakeshore	Rain/snow, rainbows	Always
Green Tiger Beetle	2	Onsen Mountain	Any	Always
Seven-Spotted Ladybug	2	Suburbs	Rain/snow, rainbows	Always
Siberian Grasshopper	2	Fishing Village	Any	Always
Wasp Beetle	2	Forest	Any	Always
Ant	3	Fishing Village (Fishing Village Square)	Any	Always
Fire-Colored Beetle	3	Onsen Mountain (Onsen)	Any	Always
Katydid	3	Flower Field (Amethyst Beach)	Any	Always
Mini Moon Moth	3	Suburbs	Sunny, rainbows	Morning, daytime, and evening
Pink Katydid	3	Bait the Insects event	Any	Always
Purple Emperor	3	Flower Field (Whale Mountain)	Sunny, rainbows	Daytime, evening, and nighttime
Rajah Brooke's Birdwing	3	Home	Any	Morning, evening, and nighttime
Waroona Cuckoo Bee	3	Forest (Deer Tower)	Any	Morning, daytime, and evening
Beautiful Leopard	4	Fishing Village (Wharf)	Rain/snow, rainbows	Morning, evening, and nighttime
Cicada	4	Forest (Spirit-Oak Pine Forest)	Any	Daytime, evening, and nighttime
Common Whitetail	4	River Bank	Rain/snow, rainbows	Always
Four-Spotted Ladybug	4	Onsen Mountain (Crater Lake)	Rain/snow, rainbows	Always
Large Banded Grasshopper	4	Suburbs	Sunny, rainbows	Daytime, evening, and nighttime
Mediterranean Mantis	4	Onsen Mountain (Stone Cliff)	Sunny, rainbows	Daytime, evening, and nighttime
Asian Lady Beetle	5	Forest (Deer Tower)	Rain/snow, rainbows	Daytime, evening, and nighttime
Giant Asian Mantis	5	Onsen Mountain (Ruins), in bushes (not on top of them)	Sunny, rainbows	Always
Mourning Cloak	5	Onsen Mountain (Onsen)	Sunny, rainbows	Morning, daytime, and nighttime
Peacock Butterfly	5	Flower Field (Windmill Flower Field)	Any	Always
Splay-Footed Carpenter	5	Flower Field (Whale Mountain)	Sunny, rainbows	Always
White Witch	5	Bait the Insects event	Sunny, rainbows	Always
Beautiful Demoiselle	6	Forest Lake Shore	Rain/snow, rainbows	Always
Blue Shieldbug	6	Fishing Village (Lighthouse)	Any	Morning, daytime
Green Birdwing	6	Suburbs	Any	Evening, nighttime
Silver Jewel Scarab	6	Onsen Mountain (Stone Cliff)	Sunny, rainbows	Morning, daytime, and nighttime
Stag Beetle	6	Forest (Jump Puzzle)	Rain/snow, rainbows	Morning, daytime, and evening
Blue Morpho	7	Forest (Spirit-Oak Pine Forest)	Sunny, rainbows	Morning, daytime, and evening
Chestnut Tiger	7	Bait the Insects event	Rain/snow, rainbows	Always
Elegant Flower Beetle	7	Flower Field (Whale Mountain)	Rain/snow, rainbows	Morning, daytime
Golden Jewel Scarab	7	Forest (Jump Puzzle)	Sunny, rainbows	Daytime, evening
Minotaur Beetle	7	Onsen Mountain (Ruins)	Any	Morning, daytime, and nighttime