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

A red-brown and dark brown beetle with white markings on its back in Heartopia

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

Table images: XD via Polygon

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