Identify the bugs of A Bug’s Life with this botanical guide shared by Pixar on social media.
A Bug’s Life Artwork
The artwork features stylized versions of most of the film’s main characters with their scientific names:
Flik the ant: Formicidae
Tuck and Roll the pillbugs: Armadillidiidae
Rosie the black widow spider: Latrodectus
Manny the praying mantis: Mantodea
Gypsy the moth: Lymantria Dispar Dispar
Heimlich the caterpillar: Lepidopteran Larva
Francis the lady bug: Coccinellidae
Dim the rhinoceros beetle: Dynastinae
Slim the stick bug: Phasmatodea
A Bug’s Life (1998) was Pixar’s second feature animated film after Toy Story. It’s loosely based on Aesop’s fable The Ant and the Grasshopper. It follows Flik who searches for warriors to protect his ant colony from grasshoppers but accidentally hires circus bugs.
The movie inspired Disney’s Animal Kingdom show “It’s Tough to Be a Bug!” which closed permanently in 2025.
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