Bug catching
Bugs are a large part of the Animal Crossing series games. The act of capturing a bug is called bug catching. Bug catching has featured in all the Animal Crossing games. Bugs are one of the four items that can be donated to the museum; the others are fish, fossils and paintings. Despite the most expensive bugs selling for less than the most expensive fish, the bug is more diverse in prices, from 5 Bells to 12,000 Bells. Like fish, not all bugs are actually insects, for example the snail or spider. Bugs can be found in several different places in an Animal Crossing town, by far the most common is on trees. Bugs are caught with the net, or it's upgrades, the silver net and the golden net.
Catching the Bugs
Nets
There are 2 types of net in Animal Crossing and Animal Crossing: Wild World, but there are 3 in Animal Crossing: City Folk.
Net
Sold in Tom Nook's Store for 500 Bells.
Silver Net
Sold (rarely) in Tom Nook's Store for 500 Bells. Is a little bigger than the regular net, so it's better at catching bugs. Only in Animal Crossing: City Folk
Golden Net
Given to the player by Tortimer when the player has caught all the 40 (Animal Crossing), 56 (Animal Crossing: Wild World) or 64 (Animal Crossing: City Folk or Animal Crossing: Let's Go To The City). This net makes it much easier to catch bugs.
Where can bugs be caught?
There are several locations where bugs can be caught:
On trees
The tree is the place where most bugs can be caught. On regular (fruit, oak or pine) trees, the following bugs appear:
- Drone Beetle
- Dynastid Beetle
- Flat Stag Beetle
- Fruit Beetle
- Giant Beetle
- Jewel Beetle
- Cockroach
- Longhorn Beetle
Rainbow stag- 10,000 bells
