Insects Picker
Free Random Insect Picker
Search the meadow
Who is in the meadow?
Tap bugs to add or remove them from the meadow (up to 12).
You are crouched in the long grass with a macro lens, and something is hiding in every tuft. Press Take the Shot and the lens creeps across the meadow — bugs dart under the blades as you pass — until the reticle locks on, the grass snaps into focus and the shutter fires. The photo develops to show exactly what you found. Choose who is in the meadow, add your own, and let the lens decide.
- Teachers & classrooms
- Budding entomologists
- Drawing & projects
Search the meadow to pick a random minibeast
There are more insects alive right now than any other animal on Earth — over a million named species — so “pick a bug” is a big ask. The Insects Picker hands the job to a macro lens. Your minibeasts hide among the grass tufts, and when you press Take the Shot the lens creeps across the meadow — bugs dart under the blades as you pass — until the reticle locks on, the grass snaps sharp and the shutter fires. A photo slides up and develops to show what you found. The winner is chosen fairly before the camera moves, so the hunt is pure suspense over a genuinely random result.
Fill the meadow
The lens can only photograph what's out there. Tap bugs to add or remove them, and type in anything missing — a snail, a woodlouse, whatever your class found under a log. Keep the meadow to minibeasts you'd be happy to get, and whatever turns up is a good result.
Choose which bugs are hiding in the meadow.
Press Take the Shot and follow the lens across the grass.
Focus locks, the shutter fires, and your photo develops.
Know your minibeasts
If the lens catches something you don't know much about, here's a head start:
| Minibeast | Where to find it | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| Butterfly | Flowers & sunny meadows | Tastes with its feet, and started life as a caterpillar |
| Ladybug | Leaves & garden plants | A single one can eat thousands of aphids in its lifetime |
| Bee | Anywhere with flowers | Dances to tell the hive exactly where to find nectar |
| Ant | Underground colonies | Can lift around fifty times its own body weight |
| Dragonfly | Ponds & streams | Flies backwards and hovers — the finest flyer of all insects |
| Firefly | Warm summer nights | Makes its own cold light to signal to other fireflies |
| Praying Mantis | Shrubs & long grass | Sits motionless, then strikes faster than you can blink |
| Cicada | Trees in warm places | Some species wait seventeen years underground before emerging |
Ways to use it
- Bug-hunt topic work. Give every child a different minibeast to research — no duplicates, no arguments.
- Habitat lessons. Photograph one, then work out where it lives and what it eats.
- Drawing challenges. One shot equals one bug to draw — try it as a timed sketch.
- Food-chain games. Take two photos and decide which would eat which, and why.
- Nature walks. Let the camera choose which minibeast to hunt for outside.
- Guess the animal. Shoot in secret and give clues until someone names it.
A fair shot every time
No tuft of grass is luckier than another. The winner is chosen with your browser's cryptographic random generator — the same kind of randomness used for security — before the camera moves, the lens can reach every tuft in the meadow, and the bugs swap hiding places between shots. The sweep, the focus pull and the developing photo are showmanship; the pick is genuinely unbiased.
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