Insects Symbolism & Meanings
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Ant Symbolism & Meaning
Bee Symbolism & Meaning
Butterfly Symbolism & Meaning
Caterpillar Symbolism & Meaning
Centipede Symbolism & Meaning
Cicada Symbolism & Meaning
Cockroach Symbolism & Meaning
Cricket & Grasshopper Symbolism & Meaning
Dragonfly Symbolism & Meaning
Earthworm Symbolism & Meaning
Firefly Symbolism & Meaning
Fly Symbolism & Meaning
Glow Worm Symbolism & Meaning
Ladybug Symbolism & Meaning
Mosquito Symbolism & Meaning
Moth Symbolism & Meaning
Orchid Mantis Symbolism & Meaning
Praying Mantis & Walking Stick Symbolism & Meaning
Scarab Beetle Symbolism & Meaning
Scorpion Symbolism & Meaning
Spider Symbolism & Meaning
Wasp Symbolism & Meaning
Insect Symbolism & Meanings
What’s bugging you? 😉
Perhaps it is a Spirit Insect striving to get your attention, bearing a message or a lesson. There is literally no habitat in which insects do not live, and they are very diversified creatures. And while many people think of insects as annoyances they are incredibly necessary for pollinating everything from fruits and vegetables to flowers.
Some of the global symbolism for the Insect Class include:
- Variety
- Nurturing
- Fertility
- Sustenance
- Productivity
- Natural order
- Tidiness
- Food Chain
- Triune Divine
- Tenacity
- Persistence
- Privacy
- Community
Helpful insects moderate other insects that otherwise destroy crops. Some are the proverbial weed whackers of nature, some act as a food source for animals and even humans, and others still help decompose natural waste that would otherwise accrue uncontrolled.
Even if you’re not planning to head out to the store for fresh grubs, there is a lot that Insect Spirit can teach us.
Insects have certain characteristics in common. As adults, Insects have bodies with three segments and three legs. This natural feature gives Insect connections with the three-fold Divine.
Some of the most commonly talked about Insects in the world of Animal Symbolism and Animal Spirit Guides include Bees, Butterflies, Crickets, & Spiders.
Insects are communal creatures. Nonetheless, they seem to go about their business with little attention to what others are doing. Rather they just keep going forward, adapting with relative ease as the environment changes.
Insect Spirit Animal
As with other Animal Spirits, the exact meaning of an Insect depends heavily on the exact type of creature it is, and also how this symbol appears in your life.
For example if a specific is constantly buzzing in your ear, particularly a bee, it’s bringing you a message from the Ancestors or the Divine.
Butterfly appearing in your life represents a transformation on the horizon often of a personal nature, dragonfly heralds luck and sweet fire fly lights up the darkness of our life.
The best way to discover for certain what your Spirit Animal is trying to say is by meditating on that image and writing down anything that comes to mind.
Insect Totems
If you were born with an Insect as your Totem Animal, you are probably on the move a lot. Sitting still is not your “thing”. You want to fly off and enjoy life’s nectar, enriching people along the way.
Insect Totems like being in Nature often, and may even seek out careers like landscaping or botany to invest that passion accordingly.
Insect Power Animals
There are tens of thousands of species of Insects and, each, important to the bio-diversity on Earth. If your calling in life is to help Mother Gaia, call on the energy of the Insect world when you want spiritual guidance from the animal kingdom.
The majority of the world’s insect population is physically, very tiny. Yet, they all serve such large functions in our eco-system. When you want to do big things but are feeling too small to make a difference, invoke Insect as your Power Animal. They all can help you see that little things come in big packages!
Insects in Celtic Symbolism
Because the Celts so revered the animal kingdom, Insect Symbolism and Meaning plays heavily in their myths and cultural beliefs. It’s important to remember that the Celtic people, just as the Native Americans, studied all animals, insects, reptiles, etc. to learn about survival as well as to glean spiritual connection and understanding.
As in most cultures, Bees, Butterflies, & Spiders are among the most meaningful Insects to the Celts. In especially, Bees were thought to bring good luck and Butterflies the embodiment of loved ones who had crossed to the other side.
Native American Symbols: Insects
Insects play a wide variety of different roles in the mythology of Native American tribes.
Generally speaking, Native American traditions tend to have very negative perceptions of swarming insects, biting insects, and (in agricultural societies) crop-destroying insects, associating them with disease, evil witchcraft, and bad luck.
On the other hand, like other small animals, insects often appear in legends to symbolize meekness and humility, two positive traits valued by most Native American cultures.
Good day
Please can you help me to find out my about me.
Born 14/11/69
Thank you
Bernadette
Hello, Bernadette;
I’m unsure what you’re asking but usually when folks send me a birthday they are interested in their Zodiac Sign – click to read all about your Native American Zodiac Sign .
Hope that helps.
Stay wild,
Bernadette
Hello!I feel very inspiring to found this site and thank you for your work and help here!
I do feel a very major message from roaches.It maybe sounds funny for people who can say that this normal to be around them nowadays untill you get rid of them.But for me I have a big story.First dreams when i was a kid with them coming from the walls everywhere surroundong me brought me to major phobia.I was avoiding them a lot,but information as they as too for better understanding their nature are coming with personal relationships.Years passed by and I am on my awaking stage right now always feeling deep connection to nature and specific createres-butterflies always services me as a guide to awaking wisdom and transformation,hope for better, and light from divine ,as i understanded already for myself when they appear to me in physical world (very less in dreams).Elephant is one of good symbols same sa black horse in dreams and in world and dolphines/whales as deep love and guided.I still fseaching for totem one or major if ut can be)Another quastion that roaches I can feel,there moves and I feel them in the dirt,I even can see them with people visiualy.I was fearing them terrifying I already learned to touch them,I don’t kill them anymore and everywhere almost they appear to me i start loving them for their abilities to survive anywere (which is very likely me) even same time I still feel scared.I see big significance in fighting my deepest fear though building connections to this insects,although I feel darkness within them.I going though balancing stage of both type of energies which we all bring within us,ying yang.So my quastion is please, what this insects can mean for me?Can this be my totem or spiritual guied?
Thank you!
Hello! I am also getting some strong messages from roaches, and insects. One night my got spiritually stung by something, it was painful. That day i had sprayed some repellant around my apartment and they were very angry about it, especially the roaches. I always been very compassionate about them, but it started to get out of control so we took those measures. But i have been very intrigued about those messages i keep getting from them. What would it mean? I know they are angry, but there’s this darkness about them, and sometimes i get this very scary thoughts in my head, i am not used to think about it. I have even decided to move from this place because of this, i feel there’s a strong swarm and presence from the insects spirits in this area. I am trying to think beyond duality and not think of it as a bad thing, but there’s always a negative pattern that follows this presence that is not very welcoming. If there’s any help, please let me know.
Hello,
Apology for delayed reply. I’m finding that having two hands is not enough and I’m looking into getting surgery to become an Octopus. 😉
I LOVE that Roaches are your Spirit Animal! Like Buzzards, Cockroaches are misunderstood and maligned. This is a terrible thing because the world desperately needs both these beautiful souls! Cockroaches and Buzzards are the janitors of our world. They clean up decay. Who among us wants that job yet they choose to serve humanity in this fashion.
Roaches are the ultimate survivors! They’ve been around since the Dinosaur age. We can learn a great deal from Cockroaches. Check out this article and learn about how amazing Roaches are.
So, absolutely! Roaches and Insects can be your Spirit, Totem, and Power Animal. Fighting our deepest fears is very much like battling for survival because our fears can kill off our hopes, dreams, confidence, and more. Once we conquer our fears, we can not only survive – but thrive!
Hope that helps.
Stay wild,
Bernadette
Thank you Bernadette for your inspiring answer!Now its definatelly confirmed.Hope new “hand” will serve you well!?Much love!
Hello Bernadette,
Wish you a pleasant day.I believe on what you explain to us that makes me interested in your answer. Last week i saw a white grub worms while digging to make a composite for a garbage.After some weeks i get sick. I have colds and abnormal body temperature that i can’t explain, until now i am sick.Last month a big grasshopper was in my room for 2 days.My father died month of march, is it possible that grasshopper is my fathers spirit?Please help, what message he want to tell me?
Hello i came home one afternoon in a frustrated mood and went to lay down on my bed. I felt something crawling on me so i smacked it, then again i felt something crawling on me so i got up to turn on my light and there were a swarm of termites on my pillows, not my whole bed just my pillows. I’m wondering why none were flying (since they had wings) especially when i laid down none flew away and there were none flying in my room just on muy pillows. This is a new house we have been in it for almost a month. I got up and freaked out and started smashing them then i got my phone out and took video and a pic of them so i know it wasn’t an illusion. I then got my pillows and shook them off outside i them preceded to do the same with the rest of my bedding. There were a few here and there on the walls. I moved my bed to see where they were coming from but there was no sign of an entrance for them. We had never had any issues with termites before. I picked up my mattress to see if there was anything between but there was not. After i cleared them and checked everywhere for where they might have came from i ended up empty handed. As i was folding the throw blankets i shook them off and i didn’t see one single termite again. They had disappeared as quickly as they had appeared. I’d love to know what this is a sign of. It has me vey shaken up and i haven’t returned home since. I’m going to buy a new mattress and bedding and sage myself and room when i return home but I’m so courteous as to what this means. Can you offer me any guidance? It would be most appreciated.
Hi,
What is the spiritual meaning of having a stink bug infestation in your bedroom?
what about centipede spirit meaning?
What does the stink bug totem represent? Thank you!
What about ants?
I want to know what about june bug meaning
I see symbolism in pretty much everything… most of it I can find on the internet, but this time I can’t. I know someone who was bit by a Jerusalem crocket that had climbed up in her VERY HIGH bed and bit her ear while she was sleeping. Seems that that should ha e some symbolic meaning to me. Can you help?
Hi. Today I was driving on the freeway (west towards the sunset) listening to The Alchemist audiobook and the part was about listening to your heart… I felt compelled to send a text message to a friend that I still love but won’t talk to me – the message was “I love you. I’m sorry.”
As soon as I sent it a bug splattered on my windshield – I knew in my heart that it was a good omen from god, but now I’m questioning it.
Is there a meaning? Would a dead bug on my windshield be a bad omen, stop bugging, etc.? Please help
It simply means the bug wasn’t focused. Maybe it was mentally texting while flying. Be(e) present when behind the wheel of a car so you don’t end up being the bug on someone else’s windshield
Mine seems to be the yellow jacket, they always show up in my times of need. Any ideas of what this means? Is it similar to the bee?
The splattered bug means that the relationship has been ‘splattered’ on the ground. this happens sometimes when feelings are strong but the path isn’t for both of you to travel together. Let you pal go, the greatest gift of love of all is freedom to be their true selves even if this means without you. If they didn’t care, they would be chatting happily. Get on with your life (not easy I know when a loved one is lost) but all roads lead to Rome in the end. Stay strong, good luck, L x.
What does the WORM spirit animal suggest when feeling down in th week?
I do see an insect like centipede always coming to my bed. I kill it but still sees it. it blood shine with green light.
Does anyone know anything about bedbugs?
does anyone know anything about eight spotted forester moths ?!
My dog was dying we were waiting for the vet appointment at home, about three bees hovered around us the whole time we were saying goodbyes to our girl and mourning for her, it was amazing and not till i read my book of wisdom yes they were there saying goodbye and trying to comfort was an amazing thing.
Hi! I was searching for some information about flies. A couple of time I’ve heard a buzzing noise (just 1 second) next to my right ear that scared me because it was exactly as if a fly was coming to my right ear or bumping against it. I was lying in bed and checked and checked but couldn’t find any insect.
I’ve had two or three large dead cockroaches at my door step over the last week. Today, there was a dead cockroach and a locust skin next to the sealed protection spell jar by my front door. The jar was knocked over, and this has only happened a handful of times since I placed it there almost a year ago. I really feel as though this has spiritual significance, but I don’t know what. What might you infer?
Thank you!!!