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Name an animal that eats bugs

November 9, 2026 · Daily Dive #117

Explore 41,238 recorded answers and their points for question 5 on November 9, 2026.

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41,238 recorded names on November 9, 2026, 40,590 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Think in terms of menu rather than scenery: the qualifying trait is dietary, so the answer pool stretches from soil to canopy and from fresh water to open air. Any named creature counts if insects form part of what it eats, whether it hunts them deliberately or swallows them by accident; plants, fungi and strict plant-eaters are out.

41,238 recorded answers40,590 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut40,58985 pts
  • Rare58160 pts
  • Schooler6130 pts
  • Plankton610 pts
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Recorded answers

41,238 recorded answers

How to approach it

Treat the prompt as a diet question and build a mental map before writing anything down. Walk through habitats in turn, canopy, soil, fresh water, cave and open sky, and ask which residents there depend on small invertebrates for most of their intake. Then widen the net again with behaviour: active pursuit, ambush, scavenging and incidental ingestion all satisfy the wording, so a candidate does not need to be a dedicated hunter. When you have a shortlist, choose the entry you can name most precisely, since a full species label signals that you know exactly what you mean, while a vague umbrella term invites doubt. Check spelling, keep the article out unless it belongs to the name, and submit one well-formed entry rather than several near-duplicates.

Get a hint

Start from the idea of diet rather than habitat: the trait being tested is what an animal actually swallows, so nearly every branch of the animal kingdom is open to you.

A little more

No need for a dedicated hunter; scavengers, water filters and animals that pick tiny prey off any surface all qualify, which multiplies the options far beyond the obvious predators.

One step further

Narrow the shortlist by size and schedule: the smallest, fastest and most nocturnal candidates are usually the ones whose menu is built on insects rather than merely garnished with them.

Reveal answers 41,238
  • African Barred OwletDeep Cut85points
  • African BeewolfDeep Cut85points
  • African big-headed antDeep Cut85points
  • African Black DuckDeep Cut85points
  • African Black SwiftDeep Cut85points
  • African Black White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
  • African black-tailed scorpionDeep Cut85points
  • African Blue FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
  • African Blue TitDeep Cut85points
  • African BluetsDeep Cut85points
  • African Bolas SpiderDeep Cut85points
  • African bonytongueDeep Cut85points
  • African BroadbillDeep Cut85points
  • African bullheadDeep Cut85points
  • African butter catfishDeep Cut85points
  • African ChaffinchDeep Cut85points
  • African CitrilDeep Cut85points
  • African CivetDeep Cut85points
  • African Clawless OtterDeep Cut85points
  • African Collared DoveDeep Cut85points
  • African Common ToadDeep Cut85points
  • African CrakeDeep Cut85points
  • African Cricket-hunter WaspDeep Cut85points
  • African Crimson-winged FinchDeep Cut85points
  • African Crown PisauridDeep Cut85points
  • African Cryptic-winged OwlfliesDeep Cut85points
  • African CuckooDeep Cut85points
  • African Cuckoo-HawkDeep Cut85points
  • African Cucumber SpiderDeep Cut85points
  • African DandyDeep Cut85points
  • African DarterDeep Cut85points
  • African DemoisellesDeep Cut85points
  • African Desert WarblerDeep Cut85points
  • African Dusky FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
  • African Dusky White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
  • African Dwarf KingfisherDeep Cut85points
  • African Dwarf SnakeDeep Cut85points
  • African EarwigDeep Cut85points
  • African Egg FrogDeep Cut85points
  • African EmeraldDeep Cut85points
  • African Emerald CuckooDeep Cut85points
  • African false flower mantisDeep Cut85points
  • African fattail scorpionDeep Cut85points
  • African FinfootDeep Cut85points
  • African FirefinchDeep Cut85points
  • African Five-toed SkinkDeep Cut85points
  • African FlatwingsDeep Cut85points
  • African Flightless HangingflyDeep Cut85points
  • African flower mantisDeep Cut85points
  • African Foam-nest Tree FrogDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

The distribution here is unusually lopsided and it says a lot about how the reveal was graded. A single entry took the 100-point slot, which suggests the scorer reserved full marks for one standout pick rather than spreading them around. Almost everything else landed in the 85 band, all 40,589 of them, and that band is populated by precisely named organisms from every corner of the animal kingdom: Bolas spider sits alone at the top, while 15-spotted Money Spider, Aalbu's Cave Pseudoscorpion, Aaron Bauer's House Gecko, Abbott's Tiger and Abdim's Stork all collected 85. The 60-point group of 581 looks different, and the likely reason is breadth: an answer so general that it covers thousands of species reads as the obvious first thought rather than a researched choice, so the scorer discounts it. Rarity alone is not the mechanism; precision is. Naming a specific organism that visibly eats insects proves the connection, whereas a loose category asks the reader to take the diet on trust.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 9 Nov, 05:00 UTC

Names and scores reflect the linked dated reveal. The original game makes the final decision on live acceptance. Editorial policy

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