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** Also, the ants are shown dragging people into their nests and forming a biological ladder out of ants just to get to a character hanging from a tree. Ants are strong, but they're not strong enough to pull people into their nest (even if they could physically fit inside).
*** Driver ants actually ''do'' form structures out of worker ants (like bridges or the bivouac, for instance). They just can't do it quite that ''fast'', or detect a prey item from that far away. Dragging the GiantMook back to the nest is pure Hollywood, but using the real driver ant method (slicing off pieces of flesh and carrying those back to the nest) would have made it rather difficult to avoid an R rating.
*** The Brazilian translation fixed the name for an actual Amazon ant -- instead of "Siafu", "Saúva" - but raised the problem of it being a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atta_%28genus%29 leafcutter]], not carnivorous like an army ant.

* ''Film/MyGirl'' apparently featured honeybees living inside what appears to be a hornet's nest.

** Queens are produced by merging two bees, while royal jelly is used to turn any adult worker into a queen. Queens also die after making new bees (which are [[BornAsAnAdult born as adults]]), when in real life, it's the drones who die after mating.

* A suspect in ''Series/{{Castle}}'s'' season 2 finale claimed he spent several weeks in Afghanistan with fire ants crawling on his privates. [[MisplacedWildlife Fire ants are native to the Americas, not Afghanistan.]] Possibly {{justified}}, as the guy was [[ItsALongStory only pretending to be a spy]], and probably wasn't an entomologist. Could also be TranslationConvention, as ants that sting are fairly common worldwide, and "fire ant" would be a plausible English rendering of a local Afghani variety's name.

* ''VideoGame/{{APICO}}'' touts itself as "semi-educational", with the "semi" part being {{Hand Wave|d}} with "just don't think about the magical bees" in the game's Steam description. Specific instances of the scientific liberties taken in the game include the following:

* ''VideoGame/{{APICO}}'':

** Queens are produced by merging two bees instead of the workers feeding a chosen larva royal jelly. Queens also die after making new bees (which are [[BornAsAnAdult born as adults]]), when in real life, it's the drones who die after mating.

* In ''VideoGame/{{APICO}}'', queens are produced by merging two bees instead of the workers feeding a chosen larva royal jelly. Queens also die after making new bees (which are [[BornAsAnAdult born as adults]]), when in real life, it's the drones who die after mating.

* ''LetsPlay/AfterlifeSMP'': The Mothling origin, held by Scott on his first life and Gem on her third, can only eat leather and rabbit hide, in reference to the idea of moths chewing holes in clothing. While there is a grain of truth in this, it's only the larvae of the carpet moth that eat fabric, while fully grown carpet moths and moths of other species typically eat nectar or tree sap. In addition, both Scott and Gem decided to model themselves after moths in the family ''Saturniidae'' (as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_moth luna moth]] and a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryocampa_rubicunda rosy maple moth]], respectively), which do not eat ''anything'' as adults.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': In the episode "Bed & Breakfast", a supposed entomologist attempts to entice his beetles to breed by using pheromones supposedly produced by the "queen" beetle to attract males. There are no known beetle species that live in eusocial colonies with "queens".

* The mandibles of several insects, particularly the giant ones from the stag beetle,[[FunnyAnimalAnatomy are instead visualized as horns in the characters' designs]], including the protagonist's, as if such characters were constantly looking up. The same applies to spiders' chelicerae, such as Herrah the Beast, and to the proboscis of some true bugs.

Related to ArtisticLicenseArachnids, SomewhereAnOrnithologistIsCrying, ArtisticLicensePaleontology, this trope covers grievous errors concerning insects.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' has Batman trapped in a tank with giant Atlas moths which have mandibles... and are trying to attack/eat him. In actuality, Atlas moths not only do not have mandibles, they have no mouths. At all. Because when they are in the moth stage they don't feed. They survive off the fat reserves they built up as caterpillars and die when it runs out. And no adult moth eats fabric. They lay their eggs in closets (or did, before the invention of mothballs), and the larval moths chewed on the fabric.

* MantisMatingMeal: Wildly exaggerated in frequency in fiction: roughly seventy percent of the time, the male lives to mate another day. And when it does happen, it's usually ''before'' mating as DisproportionateRetribution to an unwanted suitor or simply because the female was hungry, not afterwards.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'': The series features various insects growing to sizes that would not be physically possible, regardless of their amount of radiation exposure, along with gaining magnificent superpowers, such as being able to breathe fire. ''Fallout'' is supposed to be a [[ILoveNuclearPower parody fueled by radiation]].

* Male mosquitos shown sucking blood. AnimalGenderBender is in full effect here, as only female mosquitos drink blood (they need the extra protein to produce eggs), while males are exclusively plant-eating, feeding on sap, nectar, and fruit juices (females feed on these as well). There's a type of bloodsucking ''moth'' in which the roles are reversed, but [[SeldomSeenSpecies good luck ever seeing that in media]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'''s "Buzzy Bees" update[[note]]Version 1.15 for Java Edition and 1.14.0 for Bedrock Edition[[/note]] introduces bees to the game. Unlike real world bees, in which only a queen bee can produce offspring, ''any'' two bees can be bred with flowers. Additionally, there is no larva stage; like other breedable Minecraft mobs, baby bees are simply smaller versions of the adults.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' has Batman trapped in a tank with giant Atlas moths which have mandibles... and are trying to attack/eat him. In actuality, Atlas moths not only do not have mandibles, they have no mouths. At all. Because when they are in the moth stage they don't feed. They survive off the fat reserves they built up as caterpillars and die when it runs out.
** And no adult moth eats fabric. They lay their eggs in closets (or did, before the invention of mothballs), and the larval moths chewed on the fabric.

* [[WormInAnApple Apple worms]] are moth caterpillars. They don't look remotely like earthworms. This fact is apparently unknown to the person who drew this webcomic: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?db=comics&id=1704#comic
** [[Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal Zach Weinersmith]]'s wife is a parasitologist, so this is probably just RuleOfFunny.