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Insects are animals that appear mostly in the background of the entire DreamWorks Dragons Franchise.
Description[]
The term "insect" refers to any invertebrates belonging to the class Insecta. They are characterised by bodies divided into three segments (head, thorax, abdomen), the presence of an exoskeleton, three pairs of legs, and a pair of antennae.
Function[]
In the franchise, the most common usage of insects is as dragon food or as figures of speech.
In real life, certain types of insects, such as ants, are used as a nutritious food source for humans.
Types of Insects Seen in the Franchise[]
Ant[]
Ants are insects of the Family Formicidae and are best known for their clearly segmented bodies and complex social structure. Ants occur on all continents except Antarctica, as well as several islands such as Greenland and Iceland. There are more than 12,000 species of ant worldwide. Ants have evolved to be very specialized, depending on the environment and species. Generally, an ant colony consists of at least one queen, a few fertile males, and worker ants. Depending on the species and social structures, there may be other social groups such as sterile females. Ants are largely wingless insects, but the queen ant may have wings, using them for mating flights but loosing them afterwards. Ants are very strong for their size, being able to lift 20 times their own body weight.
In "Big Man on Berk", Tuff mentions ants briefly in comparison to Fishlegs itching his legs due to an allergic reaction to the new wax that Gobber has started using on the Riders' dragon saddles.
“ | He's itchier than a honey covered yak on an ant hill. What? You've never seen a honey covered yak on an ant hill? Because those things scratch. The image haunts my dreams. | ” |
— Tuffnut |
In "The Serpent's Heir" Hiccup refers to them when comparing the size of humans to that of the Foreverwing.
“ | --As well as the Foreverwings themselves. We're gonna look like ants to them. | ” |
— Hiccup |
In School of Dragons Hiccup mentions ants during "Call of the Death Song" expansion in which he compares the Death Song nest with that of ants.
Bed Bug[]
Bed Bugs (Family Cimicidae, Order Hemiptera) are a parasitic insect group known for its exclusive diet of blood. Different species specialize in specific host species. The "Common Bed Bug" (Cimex lectularius) primarily feeds on humans. Bed Bugs have a stylet fascicle - a "beak" or proboscis - that pierces and saws through the skin until a blood vessel is reached. Its saliva contains analgesics and anti-coagulants. Feeding is complete in about 5-10 minutes. Bed Bugs are nocturnal and will return to their hiding place during the day whether they have gotten a blood meal or not.
In the episode "A Time to Skrill", Ruffnut and Tuffnut guess what could have driven the Outcasts off their island. Ruffnut guesses it was bed bugs.
“ | Bed bugs? Once those things show up, you can never get rid of 'em. | ” |
— Ruffnut guessing |
Beetle[]
In the episode "A View to a Skrill, Part 2", Tuffnut hides in a tree trunk on Outcast Island.
“ | And I have bark beetles in my pants. I'm starting to like them. | ” |
— Tuffnut in "A View to a Skrill, Part 2 |
In "Defenders of the Wing, Part 1", during a fight with the Dragon Hunters, Tuffnut gets a bug in his eye.
“ | ” | |
— Ruffnut and Tuffnut arguing |
In Dragons: Rescue Riders: Hunt for the Golden Dragon, the Rescue Riders encountered hundreds of yellow beetles inside a cave, while they were searching for a Golden Dragon. They threw away one of their lanterns and set it on fire, which attracted all the beetles in one place. Burple ate a few beetles, but claimed that they didn't have a good taste, so he let one go.
In the episode "Of Gods and Monsters", when Sledkin demonstrates to Linda of how Plowhorn can track Dragonsite she insults the dragon by calling her an overgrown Dungbeetle.
Beetles called "Blaze Beetles" appear in Flight of the Night Fury. The player (as Hiccup) must collect them to complete tasks assigned by Gobber. Because the game is no longer available, the purpose of collecting the Blaze Beetles is unknown at this time.
Grubs (beetle larvae) are mentioned very briefly in Dragons: Rise of Berk when describing the Raincutter individual, Thump. Raincutters prefer eating grubs and worms, and Thump brings gifts of worms to Valka as gifts.
“ | This Raincutter had her wing sliced by a trapper's razor netting. She is forever grateful to Valka for rescuing her, often bringing her slimy worm and grub snacks as gifts! | ” |
— About Thump |
Golden Beetles are mentioned in the description for Gullklumper, a chicken who is fed a specialized diet including these beetles in order for her to lay golden-colored eggs.
In School of Dragons, grubs appear in a Stable Quest players can send their non-active dragons on called "Grubalicious". The Raincutter is the best dragon for this Quest, though others can be used for a reduced success rate. The quest takes 24 hours and a successful mission yields 920 coins, 1440 Dragon Experience points, and 150 Ultimate Dragon Trainer points.
Both the shape and coloring of the Rumblehorn was in part inspired by beetles. In the How to Train Your Dragon 2 Film Commentary, Dean DeBlois indicates the Rumblehorn Skullcrusher's color is based on a type of beetle.
“ | And his name is Skullcrusher, and he is a big dragon, a tracking dragon, and he's part of the tracker class. He's a Rumblehorn, which is the name of the species. He's sort of a cross between a truffle pig and a rhino with the coloring of a scarab beetle. | ” |
— Dean DeBlois |
According to Dreamworks' Youtube Video Series, "The DreamWorks Download", "Skullcrusher is a cross between a rhino, truffle pig, dung beetle, jackhammer, and a battle axe."[1]
Butterfly[]
Butterflies are winged, six-legged insects of the Order Lepidoptera, Suborder Rhopalocera. They are characterized by intricately colored and designed wings in the adult stage, and caterpillars in the larval stages. Wing shape and coloring can vary widely from bright colors to dull camouflage colors. Butterflies have a long proboscis mouth part for extracting nectar from flowers. When not in use, this proboscis is often coiled up.
The larval stage - caterpillars - usually eat plant material other than flower nectar such as leaves. As such, some species can be a major pest of farmers, gardeners, and their crops.
In the episode, "Mi Amore Wing", Queen Mala and Chief Dagur the Deranged have fallen in love. They call each other a variety of pet names. One Mala calls Dagur is "butterfly".
In the episode, "Grumblegard, Part 2", a pink butterfly is seen flitting around The Roost's yard and alights on the muzzle of a baby Slobber Smelter.
In "Mecha-Menace", various Luck Lanterns had butterflies and caterpillars painted on them, during the Spring Festival.
In "Summer Holiday", unidentified species of butterflies were seen on the exotic island described by Summer.
In "Belly Flop", Burple was distracted by a passing butterfly while standing guard at the entrance of the Roost.
In "Empty Fireworm Nest" while trying to catch Fireworms in the lair D'Angelo uses a butterfly net and says it's like catching butterflies in the summer, although the Fireworm's heat burns the netting and frees itself.
Beltane Butterflies were introduced in Dragons: Rise of Berk with the 1.48 update as a seasonal currency, which can only be used for a limited time. Beltane Butterflies could be obtained from Gobber's Duties, daily logins, and Gauntlet Events, and could be used to buy certain dragons, costumes, and seasonal decorations.
Butterflies are further mentioned as a preferred food source for the Deathgripper, Monarchic Murderfly, who will travel great lengths after them. Based on this dragon's name, it is inferred that the preferred butterflies are Monarchs.
In the "Call of the Death Song" Expansion of School of Dragons, Heather tells the player of a story called the "Legend of The Dragon Valkyrie", which tells the mythological creation of the Death Song dragon. This story involves a woman who loved butterflies, explaining why she would eventually turn into the Death Song, as its appearance is very similar to a butterfly.
The life cycle of a butterfly is illustrated as part of a puzzle in Loki's Mirage.
In DreamWorks Dragons: Dawn of New Riders, butterflies of various colors appear in the landscape on the island of Havenholme.
“ | Many Viking homes have been destroyed when The Bulwark rolls over them in his eagerness to catch a passing butterfly. | ” |
— Dragons: Titan Uprising |
In Dragons: Titan Uprising, butterflies are mentioned in the description of the Crimson Goregutter Bulwark.
“ | Galegrinder, it seems, was sleeping near the top of Glittertind, one of the tallest mountains in Eirik’s home county of Haukadalr, when a butterfly landed on his nose. The butterfly’s feet were covered with ragweed pollen, to which Galegrinder was tremendously allergic. |
” |
— Dragons: Titan Uprising |
Butterflies are also mentioned in the description of the Windgnasher Galegrinder. A butterfly that happened to have ragweed pollen on its feet landing on Galegrinder's nose was the catalyst for a series of events that led to the banishment of Eirik the Unscalded from Haukadalr. After his reawakening from unconsciousness, Galegrinder simply returned to chasing butterflies.
The dragon species Death Song was inspired by a butterfly in terms of coloration.
Cricket[]
Insects referred to as Crickets are arranged in the Superfamily Grylloidea. "True Crickets", the type that humans are most familiar with, are of the Family Gryllidae. Crickets can be found worldwide except very far North or very far South in cold regions. They are known for their 'singing' or 'chirping' sounds, which is actually neither. Male crickets will make a sound to attract females to mate with by stridulation - rubbing together parts of their textured fore wings.
In the episode "Hot, Hot, Hot" the sound of a songbird blending into the sound of a chirping Cricket is heard, indicating a time change of daytime into nighttime.
In Dragons: Titan Uprising, crickets chirping are the only sound that a Dragon Hunter guard heard during the night when the Dramillion Nattvig decimated his camp.
“ | One watchman who survived an encounter with Nattvig, reported watching carefully throughout the night, seeing nothing out of the ordinary, and hearing nothing but crickets. | ” |
— Dragons: Titan Uprising |
In Dragons: Rise of Berk, crickets are mentioned in the description of Mudraker Island.
Damselfly[]
Damselflies are six-legged insects in the order Odonta. They are similar to dragonflies, to which they are closely related, although they differ from dragonflies in that they have smaller, slimmer bodies and that they fold their wings along the body when at rest. Like dragonflies, damselflies start their lives as nymphs underwater, where they hunt small aquatic organisms. They remain predators as adults, feeding on smaller insects like mosquitoes. Damselflies are living fossils, having been around since the Permian period (around 271 million years ago).
A damselfly appears in a Dragons: Rise of Berk Facebook ad for the Moldruffle Turfraider.
Dragonfly[]
Dragonflies are six-legged insects found in the order Odonata. They are known for their two pairs of wings, which enable them to be extremely agile in flight, being able to turn on a dime and move in any direction, even backwards. Dragonflies are similar to damselflies, to which they are closely related, although they differ from damselflies in that they have larger, thicker bodies and that they hold their wings flat and away from their bodies when at rest. Dragonflies start their lives as nymphs underwater, where they hunt small fish, tadpoles, and other water insects. They remain predators as adults, feeding on smaller insects like mosquitos. Dragonflies are living fossils, having been around since the Carboniferous period (around 325 million years ago).
Dragonflies appear in a Dragons: Rise of Berk Facebook ad for the Moldruffle Turfraider.
Firefly[]
Fireflies (or "lightning bugs") are a family of beetles of the order Coleoptera known for their ability to produce light. Through the use of specialized organs in their abdomens, they’re able to set off chemical reactions that result in a blinking or glowing light. This process is commonly known as bio-luminescence. Some fireflies blink their lights on and off in fancy patterns, others just emit a steady glow, and some can’t do either of those things. In fact, despite their common name, many firefly species are unable to produce any light at all.
The life cycle of a firefly is called metamorphosis. They start out as eggs in the ground and then quickly grow into larvae (sometimes called glowworms), which can spend up to several years underground. In the spring, the larvae turn into pupae and, subsequently, adult beetles.
In "Featherhide", Carla and Hazel Gonzalez go one night to catch fireflies. Alexandra Gonzalez and Feathers accidentally find themselves in the same place filled with fireflies as Carla and Hazel. While Feathers starts playing with the insects, Alex convinces her to hide from her mothers, keeping the secret of dragons safe.
In "Downpour", in an attempt to use a pair of Flood Fangs to put out a forest fire, Alex notices that the dragons eat fireflies. She and Tom then gather as many fireflies as they can in the forest and use them to lure the Flood Fangs out of the Hidden World. Once they reach the forest fire, the two of them release the fireflies and the Flood Fangs open their mouths to feed on the insects, pouring down water on the fire, completely extinguishing it.
In "Fire Escape", Eugene mentions fireflies while telling Buzzsaw about the research going on at ICARIS.
Clusters of fireflies appear in Dragons Hero Portal as a collectible item for the player to gain energy for their dragon.
In Dragons: Rise of Berk, during the Eternal Night updates (which are around Halloween), fireflies can be seen flying around Berk. Fireflies that emit bright pink light surround Radiant Meadows, the in-game location of the Light Fury.
Festive Fireflies were introduced in this game with the 1.49 update as a seasonal currency, which can only be used for a limited time. Festive Fireflies could be obtained from Gobber's Duties, daily logins, and Gauntlet Events, and could be used to buy certain dragons, costumes, and seasonal decorations.
One of the decorations was called "Firefly Hangout" (a bush with a few fireflies flying around it), and it cost 50 Festive Fireflies. Another decoration consisting of a small pond with blue fireflies hovering over it, named Amsvartnir, was introduced in the game with the 1.51 update. It costs 300 Dreadfall Delights and requires 20 minutes to be built.
In Dragons: Titan Uprising, during Dreadfall updates (around Halloween), buzzing fireflies can be seen flying in the background of dragon roosts.
Fireflies are seen in the various realms of the Hidden World in DreamWorks Dragons: Legends of The Nine Realms
Flea[]
Fleas are wingless insects from the Order Siphonaptera. They are parasites of mammals and birds, consuming their blood, and as adults, living on their skin under fur and feathers. Because of this, they are vectors of different diseases such as Murine typhus and Bubonic plague.
There are over 2,000 species of flea worldwide. Many are generally are species-specific to their hosts, but will take a blood meal where they can if their preferred host is not available. The adult life stage ingests the blood of their hosts. Eggs are laid on the host and around the environment. the eggs hatch into larvae which will eat anything available to them, including but not limited to plant material, blood, and feces. Larvae then weave cocoons to become pupa and emerge only when a suitable host is present. Because of this, a home or other area may appear free of fleas, only to suddenly have adults emerging enmasse.
Even though they are wingless, their hind legs are very long and powerful, allowing them to jump 50 times their body length. They have claws at the end of each limb to prevent being dislodged.
“ | Stormfly can shoot a flea off a yak's tail from 20 yards. [src] | ” |
— Fishlegs threatening a Dragon Hunter |
In the episode "Night of the Hunters, Part 1", Fishlegs mentions fleas while escaping the Dragon Hunters.
“ | Come on, Ruff, remember when we picked the fleas out of Uncle Uggard's back hair? And then you got fleas because of it? [src] | ” |
— Tuffnut |
When Ruffnut has problems washing Wingnut, Tuffnut reminds her of the time when they helped their uncle Uggard get rid of fleas.
Fly[]
Flies are insects of the order Diptera. They are characterized by only having one set of wings to fly with. They are a very diverse, wide-ranging creature, occupying many ecological niches. Depending on the species, flies may be parasitic, carnivorous, carrion eaters, dung eaters, fungus eaters, nectar eaters, and so on. They are prey for a variety of invertebrates and vertebrates alike. They are also major pollinators, after bees and other Hymenoptera species.
In the episode "Viking for Hire", Gobber is exhibiting how his weapons can be used for purposes other than killing dragons. One of which is using a mace as a fly swatter. As he tries to hit a fly with the mace, he ends up destroying the table he was using, while the fly got away unharmed.
In the episode, "The Eel Effect", Toothless accidentally bites and swallows a Bloodvein Eel, causing him illness. His senses are heightened to negative proportions. He is able to hear the small buzz of a distant fly as a loud bothersome noise.
Flies are seen briefly in "The Flight Stuff" buzzing around a dead chicken that falls from the sky. Snotlout thinks it is the "Bird of Death".
In "Mi Amore Wing", flies are heard and seen (with difficulty) buzzing around some rather pungent and rotten desserts the Twins concoct for Mala when helping to plan her wedding.
In How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, flies are both seen and heard buzzing around a cart full of dragon manure that Snotlout pushes through the Blacksmith Shop. Unidentified flying insects are also seen multiple times during scenes in the film that take place in a forested area.
A fly is seen briefly in the episode, "Boo to You", when Cutter impales a pesky fly with his tail that is buzzing around him when he is trying to go to sleep.
The term "maggot" is used occasionally in the Franchise as a derogatory term.
“ | Meal time, maggots! [src] | ” |
— Outcast jailer |
“ | Keep pulling, you maggots, unless you want to be giant eel chum! [src] | ” |
— Savage |
The term "fly" was used as a metaphor by Ruffnut in School of Dragons.
“ | Welcome to my lair, said the gorgeous twin to the fly... [src] | ” |
— Ruffnut |
Grasshopper[]
Grasshoppers are six-legged insects found in the Order Orthoptera. They are known for their excellent "hopping" ability. Grasshoppers are herbivorous, and as such, can be a major pest to humans. Locusts are a type of grasshopper that sometimes swarm, and are considered a "plague" to humanity even in historic times. Grasshoppers occupy a lower niche in the food chain, and are preyed upon by invertebrates such as spiders, flies, and beetles, and vertebrates such as birds and reptiles.
In "Hot, Hot, Hot", grasshoppers were briefly heard one night in Huttsgalor.
In School of Dragons, grasshoppers appear in the maze activity called "Loki's Mirage". They appear as part of the Food Chain motif.
Honey Bee[]
Honey bees are insects of the genus Apis. They are famously known for their yellow and black striped bodies, their products, and their stingers. Honey bees (and their products) are extremely important both commercially and environmentally.
Bees for highly structured colonies, both physically and socially. There is one Queen bee, which bears all the offspring for the hive, drones (fertile males), and countless worker bees (sterile females). It is the work bees that humans most encounter. They serve a great many functions within the hive, from gathering pollen, tending the Queen, or tending larvae, to guarding and scouting. Queen bees only leave the hive to mate or to establish her own hive. Drones move from hive to hive and their only purpose is to mate with the Queen.
Bees communicate by chemicals amongst each other, as mentioned in the School of Dragons Quest, "Honey, I Stung Snotlout!".
“ | They use pheromones, chemical messages that messages, to talk amongst each other, and the smoke hides the scent. | ” |
— Valka in School of Dragons |
In the mini-comic, "Queen of the Hill" (Inside "The Legend of Ragnarok"), Astrid is stranded on an Unnamed Island with Stormfly, who can't fly. They fend off many Smothering Smokebreaths through various ploys, one of which is the use of honey. Astrid whacks open a hive, spilling copious amounts of honey on the ground, trapping the Smokebreaths.
In "Big Man on Berk", honey is mentioned briefly by Tuff in reference to Fishlegs itching his legs due to an allergic reaction to the new wax that Gobber has started using on the Riders' dragon saddles.
“ | He's itchier than a honey covered yak on an ant hill. ...What? You've never seen a honey covered yak on an ant hill? Because those things scratch. The image haunts my dreams. | ” |
— Tuffnut |
In "Webs' Masters", after Webmaster gets kidnapped by a pack of Deathgrippers Eugene wants to get him back badly but D'Angelo tells him they shouldn't provoke them like a beehive but instead draw them out.
In "404 Alex Not Found", Buzzsaw states that Bees are not animals so after leaving Ford and Winston to guard Feathers Winston starts pondering to Ford that bees are in fact animals.
In DreamWorks Dragons: Wild Skies, the player must acquire the favourite foods to tame certain dragon species. The player needs to purchase a spear to harvest honey comb from hanging bee hives at the Great West Ocean and Unlandable Cove. Honey Comb is the favourite food of the Changewing.
In Dragons: Rise of Berk, several bee hives represent a seasonal decoration that was introduced in the 1.48 version of the game. A player can acquire the decoration by buying it for 200 Beltane Butteflies and waiting one hour for its construction.
During the summer season of 2020, a chocolate cake with a honey topping, called Tremendous Treat, was introduced as a seasonal decoration in the game. It can be bought for 100 Festive Fireflies and takes 40 minutes too be built.
Bees were introduced to School of Dragons in May 2017 as a harvestable "animal" for the player's farm. One tree for bees can hold 1 hive. One hive produces one honey comb in one hour after feeding, which can be used to complete "Jobs" for Trader Johann.
A hive of bees appears as part of the quest "Honey, I Stung Snotlout." In this quest, Snotlout is stung by several bees in an attempt to get their honey. Later on, in an attempt to obtain some honey to help cure Snotlout's stings, the player uses the smoke of a Smothering Smokebreath to calm the bees and enable the player to take some honeycomb.
Bees are also mentioned in the Summarhildr Daily Quest "New Flora," where Valka states that the thistles collected by the player help serve as a source of nectar and pollen for bees.
The Great Hall on Berk, the huge gathering place for the villagers, has been referred to as the "Meade Hall". This is derived from mead, the alcoholic honey beverage. In the game, Dragons: Rise of Berk the Great Hall is referred to exclusively as the "Meade Hall". Mead is mentioned again in "Big Man on Berk" when Fishlegs is acting as his alter ego "Thor Bonecrusher", stating that he deserves a big feast of wild boar and mead. Johann mentions mead during one of his stories in "Living on the Edge", saying he hasn't seen disaster like how the Edge appears since a battle where the triumphant chief encased the skull of his enemy in silver and drank mead out of it.
The Fireworm bears many similarities to bees, though it is not explicitly stated that their concept was derived from bees. The Fireworm species has a single much, much larger Queen, and a multitude of small individuals. The Fireworms create Firecomb, which greatly mimics a bees' honey comb in appearance. The firecomb is filled with a thick yellow substance referred to as fire gel, whereas bees' combs are filled with honey. Fireworms are even have more than four legs, as bees do, though the dragons have eight versus a bees' six.
Leech[]
Leeches are invertebrates belonging to the phylum Annelida. They are segmented worms with two suckers, one at each end. Unlike other worms, their external segmentation does not correspond with the internal segmentation. Most leeches live in freshwater environments, while others may live in terrestrial or even marine environments. The most known species of leech is the Medicinal Leech (Hirudo medicinali), which is commonly used in treatments for various diseases.
In "The Ice Castle", when Stoick finds out that Stormfly was taken by Arngrim Dammen, he says that the man is a lowlife leech.
Ruffnut mentions in "When Darkness Falls" that they once found a leech attached to Tuffnut.
“ | Ruffnut: I don't know, I haven't seen him this freaked out since he found a leech on his- Astrid: Okay, I'm going to stop you there. [src] |
” |
— Ruffnut |
Tuffnut calls the Grimora parasites leeches in the episode "A Grim Retreat".
“ | See ya later, ya leeches! [src] | ” |
— Tuffnut |
Louse[]
Lice are tiny flightless insects of the Order Phthiraptera. Like all insects, they have six legs and three body sections - the head, thorax, and abdomen. Generally they are white, grey, tan, or other pale off-white colors. Lice species are almost all species-specific, meaning that, for example, lice from a Yak cannot survive on a human, only other yaks. Lice can be divided into two categories - "chewing" lice and "sucking" lice. Chewing lice eat dead skin and other tidbits on the surface of the host animal's hide. Sucking lice eat bodily fluids and secretions on the skin surface.
“ | Yes. Yak barf. Yak lice. Yak nose. Yak breath. Rocks. Water. Trees. | ” |
— Tuffnut |
In the episode, "A Matter of Perspective", Tuffnut tried to read Hiccup's mind and spouts of various things such as "Yak lice". Hiccup is not amused.
Mosquito[]
Mosquitoes are insects of the Order Diptera - making them related to flies and of the Family Culicidae. As with other insects, they have six legs and have wings. Mosquitoes need water in which to lay their eggs, but what water each species needs can vary widely. Some can lay their eggs in saltwater. Some need rivers and streams or lakes. Some can make use of any bit of collected standing water such as puddles or tree hollows.
“ | Of course I know about algae! It kind of stinks sometimes, but the mosquitoes love it. Yuck! The males are herbivores; they only eat plants. The females are omnivores; they feed off of plants and animals. | ” |
— Ruffnut in School of Dragons |
This School of Dragons factoid is somewhat unspecific. The larvae of many species of mosquitoes do eat algae and bacteria. Adult mosquitoes however have a varied diet - females of species significant to humans take blood meals, males of those same species may subsist on sugar sources such as nectar.
In the opening monologue of How to Train Your Dragon by Hiccup, he mentions mosquitoes as possible pests in other locations, in comparison to Berk's dragons as pests.
“ | The only problems are the pests. You see, most places have mice or mosquitoes. We have -dragons. | ” |
— Hiccup in the first movie |
As How to Train Your Dragon Mobile Game provides an abbreviated retelling of the How to Train Your Dragon film, Hiccup's narration about Berk having dragons as pests rather than other places that have mosquitoes is featured. Mosquitos are not seen in this game.
In School of Dragons, mosquitos are mentioned in the quest Learn About the Food Chain. Ruffnut mentions that even though algae stinks, the mosquitoes love it. Mulch also mentions that mosquitoes are eaten by fish.
In Dragons: Rise of Berk, mosquitos are mentioned in the description of Mudraker Island.
Moth[]
Moths, along with Butterflies, make up the Order Lepidoptera. Butterflies form a single sub-grouping within the Order, whereas moths form several loosely related sub-groupings. Evolutionarily, moth pre-date butterflies in the fossil record. They are very similar in appearance to butterflies, but are actually much more diverse in behavior, habitat, and physiology. Though there are many, many exceptions, moths can generally be distinguished by a tendency to duller coloration, nocturnal activity, stouter build, and complex antennae (as opposed to a butterfly's single antennae with a barbell at the end).
In "First Flight, Part 2", Tom draws a sketch of a strange creature he saw. Upon seeing the drawing, Jun mistakes it for a moth.
Two types of moths - 'fire moths' and 'saber moths' appear in Flight of the Night Fury as items for Hiccup and Toothless to collect to complete tasks.
Wasp[]
Wasps are any number of species belonging to the Order Hymenoptera and Suborder Apocrita, along with ants and bees. Specifically, they are any member of Hymenoptera that is not a bee or an ant, as wasps occur in many Families and Genuses that might otherwise be shared with ants or wasps.
Typically, wasps are characterized by large compound eyes, an extremely narrow "waist" connecting the thorax and abdomen, a pair of long thin wings and another shorter pair, and of course the ability to sting. Unlike bees which typically die after stinging because the poison sac comes out of their abdomens, wasps can sting many times with no ill-effect to themselves. Depending on species, wasps may form social groups or be solitary. Also depending on species, wasps may eat nectar or other plant material, parasitize other insects, or even eat carrion and garbage.
The largest species of wasp are most often called a "hornet" and generally belong to the Genus Vespa. Hornets are found mostly in the Northern hemisphere in North America, Europe, and Asia.
In School of Dragons, Stable Quests are available to the player to send their non-active dragons on in order to earn rewards. One Stable Quest called "Pesky Pests" mentions wasps.
“ | Johann lost supplies when he was chased by stinging wasps. Can you send some tough skinned dragons to get them back? | ” |
— School of Dragons |
In the "Hidden World" Expansion, Eret, Son of Eret mentions "We've kicked over a hornet's nest", a phrase meaning that he has made a situation worse by agitating something that is already dangerous, in this case breaking into the Warlords' camp on Glacier Island.
In Dragons: Rise of Berk, hornets are referenced in the name of the Deathgripper Grim Hornettle, likely referring to the dragon's color and painful sting.
References[]
- ↑ 100 HTTYD Facts Only True Fans Know DreamworksTV, (Published on Aug 27, 2015). YouTube.
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