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Children’s songs, folk songs, and nursery rhymes about insects

We’ve put together a collection of children’s songs about insects.

Don’t worry—by insects we don’t mean the kind everyone dislikes, like cockroaches, but rather the beloved ones such as butterflies, ladybugs, honeybees, and red dragonflies.

The selection includes a variety of songs: newer children’s tunes, folk songs, traditional nursery rhymes, and classic playground songs.

Many boys in particular seem to love insects, so teaching them these songs might make them happy.

Cute insect songs are also popular with toddlers, so they’re definitely worth learning.

Playlist

Children’s songs, folk songs, and nursery rhymes about insects
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1eastcricketThe lyrics for “Otsukai Arisan” are the best known…
2eastladybugLyrics by Aki Shimizu, with music by Tsyae Kobayashi, “Omo…
3eastThe sound of insectsOne of the well-known autumn songs, “Mushi no Koe” (Voices of Insects). At the beginning…
4easthungry mantisThe person writing the lyrics for “Hungry Praying Mantis” is…
5eastI can’t stand it.This isn’t a children’s song for kids who love bugs… but rather…
6eastTo the Sun in the Palm of Your HandLyrics by Takashi Yanase, music by Tak Izumi...
7eastdragonfly glassesNukaga, a physician who lived in Hirono Village, Naraha District, Fukushima Prefecture...
8eastBuzz buzz buzzThe author of the German national anthem, August Heinrich Ho...
9eastFrom the choral suite for children “Picture Book of Insects”: “Cranefly”It is one piece from a choral suite for children. Composed by …
10eastButt-biting bug
Butt-biting bug
Broadcast on NHK's “Minna no Uta” in 2007...
11eastMr. Ant on an errandEiichi Sekine wrote the lyrics, and Ikuma Dan was in charge of the composition...
12eastCome, fireflyAn anonymous folk song about firefly catching, known as hotaru-gari...
13eastsnailThe well-known children’s song “Katatsumuri” (Snail) from long ago…
14eastSong of InsectsPlease be sure to watch “The Insect Song” together with the video…
15eastbutterflyBased on an old German children's song, the Kokugaku scholar Nomura Akiashi...
16eastMushiking Samba!Anime “Mushiking: The King of Beetles – Legend of the Forest People…”
17eastred dragonflyA Japanese piece with lyrics by Miki Rofu and music composed by Yamada Kosaku…
18eastSong of the cicadaLyrics are by Sato Yoshi… of “The Dog Policeman (Inu no Omawarisan)” fame…
19eastThe Very Hungry CaterpillarAmerican picture book author Eric Carle 196...
20eastJapanese beetleIt first appeared in the 1922 magazine Kan no Tō (The Golden Tower). The work...
21eastRoly-poly pill bugLyrics and music by Toshihiko ShinzawaA cute hand-play song for little creatures
22eastladybugLyrics by Aki Shimizu / Music by Tsuyae KobayashiA ladybug nursery rhyme, perfect to sing in spring
23easthoney honey honey“I Found Little Autumn,” “Medaka’s School,” and so on…
24eastCaterpillar rolling aroundIt’s a nursery rhyme. While singing, together with the child, to the left and right…
25eastOrphan HachiThe 1970 TV anime “Insect Story Minna…”
26eastSky of my hometownTo the melody of a Scottish folk song, “Railway Song…”
27eastFrom “Songs of Living Things”: “Prologue,” “Song of the Cabbage White Butterfly,” “Song of the Sea Bream,” “Song of the Caterpillar,” “Song of the Grasshopper”The only poetry collection for children by the writer Saisei Muroo, “Animal Poems”…
28eastBuzzing beesThe lyrics were written by Junichi Kobayashi, a children's literature author and nursery rhyme poet, …
29eastThe Mail Carrier, Mr. Cabbage White ButterflyThe lyrics were written by the person behind “Chiisai Aki Mitsuketa” (“I Found a Little Autumn”) and “Kawaii ka…
30eastThe Insect BandIt is a school song with lyrics by Harukaze Kuwata and music by Torazō Tamura...
31eastThe caterpillar came out.It's a hand-play song of unknown authorship. Dad, Mom, a...
32eastNo deals for 88.It’s a nursery rhyme. “Mr. Bee, I’m still just a child…”
33eastMarch of the HoneybeesTo an anonymous composer’s piece, a nursery rhyme writer and children's literature author…
34eastFluttering butterflyAmong the many children's songs that feature “butterflies” as their theme…
35eastWe Siblings, LadybugsThe TV anime that aired from 1974, “Te…”