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 == Basics ==
 Excluding beetles and queen ants, there are 49 different species of insects in ATITD.  These insects are used primarily for fishing lures, and also to cover the tuition costs of the increasingly expensive levels of the [[Fly Tying]] skill.  They are split up into six classes, each class covering a different type of activity you can perform to find insects.  These classes are:
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 Each of the above classes, with the exception of Crop Dwelling, contains 7 different insects (Crop Dwelling has 14).  Some of the insects are more common than other ones. For example, among the Tree Dwelling insects, approximately half of all the clutches you find will be Ringed Wasps, approximately one quarter will be Woolly Aphids, one eighth will be Red Crickets, and so on such that only about 1% of the clutches you find will be Desert Millipedes, the rarest insect within the Tree Dwelling class.  More detail on the rarities of the insects can be seen below, where each class of insect is covered.
-The insects you receive are only defined by the class of insect (which covers the activity you are performing, for example Crop Dwelling in the case of harvesting carrots) and the rarity of that particular insect in question.  This means that it doesn't matter whether you are growing carrots, leeks, or barley; any of the crop dwelling insects can be found on any of the crops, and the crop dwelling insects do not seem to prefer any type of crop over any other ''(Note- I think this is wrong now, based on cryptic comments from both Teppy and Telanoc.  I've got to discover this secret! -Blueshift)''.
+The insects you receive are only defined by the class of insect (which covers the activity you are performing, for example Crop Dwelling in the case of harvesting carrots) and the rarity of that particular insect in question.  This means that it doesn't matter whether you are growing carrots, leeks, or barley; any of the crop dwelling insects can be found on any of the crops, and the crop dwelling insects do not seem to prefer any type of crop over any other.
 To maximize your collection, obviously you will want your [[Arthropodology]] skill to be as high as possible.  I wouldn't personally recommend pushing your Arthropodology skill to the limit unless you have at least one permanent point of Strength and Dexterity, due to the burden the extra insects will place on your limited inventory space.

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 == Crop Dwelling Insects ==
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 *Collect Thorns
-The nightmare class; even after obtaining the "Harvested 77777 Flax" achievement it is highly unlikely you will have found all of these bugs; I do not know of single person who has the Crop Dwelling achievement (having found all 14 bugs in the class).  One insect is currently MIA.  Grow everything you can and often too; your best bet is to use a flax seed that produces a lot of seeds, little flax (to keep you from having to stop and unload flax too often), no watering required, and a good flax macro as well.
+The nightmare class; even after obtaining the "Harvested 77777 Flax" achievement it is highly unlikely you will have found all of these bugs; I do not know of single person who has the Crop Dwelling achievement (having found all 14 bugs in the class). Grow everything you can and often too; your best bet is to use a flax seed that produces a lot of seeds, little flax (to keep you from having to stop and unload flax too often), no watering required, and a good flax macro as well.
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 |Clearwing || 12
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-|Corn Maggot || 13
+|Raspberry Moth || 13
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-|Unknown Bug || 14 (Least common, good luck)
+|Corn Maggot  || 14 (Least common, good luck)
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 |Leaf Snapper || 10
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-|Dew Fly || 11?
+|Dew Fly || 11
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-|Corn Maggot || 12?
+|Clearwing || 12
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-|Clearwing || 13?
+|Corn Maggot || 13
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 |Unknown Bug || 14 (Least common, good luck)
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	The nightmare class; even after obtaining the "Harvested 77777 Flax" achievement it is highly unlikely you will have found all of these bugs; I do not know of single person who has the Crop Dwelling achievement (having found all 14 bugs in the class). One insect is currently MIA. Grow everything you can and often too; your best bet is to use a flax seed that produces a lot of seeds, little flax (to keep you from having to stop and unload flax too often), no watering required, and a good flax macro as well.		The nightmare class; even after obtaining the "Harvested 77777 Flax" achievement it is highly unlikely you will have found all of these bugs; I do not know of single person who has the Crop Dwelling achievement (having found all 14 bugs in the class). One insect is currently MIA. Grow everything you can and often too; your best bet is to use a flax seed that produces a lot of seeds, little flax (to keep you from having to stop and unload flax too often), no watering required, and a good flax macro as well.
		+	''Update April 2011: '' All insects up through Nightwing can be acquired by collecting thorns. Data from the Beta suggests that Dew Flies may be obtainable from thorns as well. Since thorns are not a crop by any means, perhaps the name of this class isn't crop dwelling after all.

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 == Crop Dwelling Insects ==
-''I'm not entirely certain this class behaves the same as the others.  I personally have yet to find any dew flies, corn maggots, or clearwings though I do know that they exist.''
+''I'm not entirely certain this class behaves the same as the others.  I personally have yet to find any dew flies, corn maggots, or clearwings though I do know that they exist.  Also, 'Crop Dwelling' is just a guess for the name, since we don't actually know the true name yet.''
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−	''Research is ongoing.... after harvesting approximately 10,000 flax beds over a day or two I received a clutch of Nightwing and two of Rose Swallowtail. No Snappers yet... we'll see if I can get one by 20k or 30k harvests. Extrapolating this data out would suggest on average you might receive insect #14 every 320,000 harvests or so, hardly encouraging. Given this extreme, I am ever more inclined to say there are other factors at play besides sheer randomness, at least with this class. - Blueshift''

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 |Clearwing || 13?
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-|Unknown Bug #2 || 14 (Least common, good luck)
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 ''Research is ongoing....  after harvesting approximately 10,000 flax beds over a day or two I received a clutch of Nightwing and two of Rose Swallowtail.  No Snappers yet... we'll see if I can get one by 20k or 30k harvests.  Extrapolating this data out would suggest on average you might receive insect #14 every 320,000 harvests or so, hardly encouraging.  Given this extreme, I am ever more inclined to say there are other factors at play besides sheer randomness, at least with this class. - Blueshift''

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 The insects you receive are only defined by the class of insect (which covers the activity you are performing, for example Crop Dwelling in the case of harvesting carrots) and the rarity of that particular insect in question.  This means that it doesn't matter whether you are growing carrots, leeks, or barley; any of the crop dwelling insects can be found on any of the crops, and the crop dwelling insects do not seem to prefer any type of crop over any other.
-To maximize your collection, obviously you will want your [[Arthropodology]] skill to be as high as possible (The highest level currently attainable is 6, with 7 a possibility in the future).  I wouldn't personally recommend pushing your Arthropodology skill to the limit unless you have at least one permanent point of Strength and Dexterity, due to the burden the extra insects will place on your limited inventory space.
+To maximize your collection, obviously you will want your [[Arthropodology]] skill to be as high as possible.  I wouldn't personally recommend pushing your Arthropodology skill to the limit unless you have at least one permanent point of Strength and Dexterity, due to the burden the extra insects will place on your limited inventory space.
 == Tree Dwelling Insects ==