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sorry to bug you, but we’d like to test your knowledge of creepy-crawlies both earthly and extraterrestrial

Point your quivering mandibles at our creepy, crawly insect quiz.

question 1

Who almost gets their head bitten off by a giant praying mantis disguised as a teacher in the Buffy The Vampire Slayer episode “Teacher’s Pet”?

question 2

In which Ray Bradbury short story is the future transformed after a time traveller steps on a butterfly?

question 3

Which ’60s TV series featured the Zanti, a race of rat-sized intelligent ants with human-like faces?

question 4

Which actor had to deliver this deathless line in killer bee movie The Swarm? “I never dreamed that it would turn out to be the bees. They’ve always been our friend.”

question 5 picture question

Name this Insectivorid member of the Micronauts.

question 6

What’s the name of the alien cockroach wearing a human skin disguise in Men In Black?

question 7

Which 1968 film features a woman who transforms into a giant, blood-drinking “were-moth”?

question 8

Who directed Mimic, the 1997 film about human-sized insects that have learnt to imitate people?

question 9

Supply the missing title of this 1954 film about giant ants.

question 10 picture question

Which HG Wells novel features an insectoid race called the Selenites?

question 11

In the 1957 film Beginning Of The End, Chicago is attacked by insects that have grown giant after eating radioactive wheat. What insects?

question 12

On which planet does the First Doctor encounter the winged Menoptera and the ant-like Zarbi?

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What’s the name of this chap, who gets DNA-spliced with a housefly in David Cronenberg’s The Fly?

question 14

In which Tales Of The Unexpected episode does a beekeeper start to transform into a bee?

question 15

Which famous graphic designer directed intelligent-ants ecohorror Phase IV?

question 16

In the X-Files episode “War Of The Coprophages”, Mulder and Scully investigate a series of deaths apparently related to what insects?

question 17 picture question

Name this insectoid alien race, first encountered in 1975 Doctor Who story “The Ark In Space”.

question 18

Who directed the 1959 B-movie The Wasp Woman?

question 19

In the Ender’s Game series, what unfortunate nickname do humans give to the ant-like Formic race?

question 20

Which Batman villain’s true identity is Drury Walker?