Color by Number Bugs

Print the Green grasshopper, or open More options for a caterpillar, a dragonfly and 5 more.

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Color by number: Green grasshopper

Color each square by its number. Squares with no number stay white.

3
113
1111111
11111311
111111111
1111111111
1112222211
111
111
111111
444444444444
444444444444

To color on screen, choose a color in the key, then tap the squares.

Green grasshopper, 12 by 12, 4 colors.

Answer key: prints on page 2.

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Print gives a blank worksheet, and the colored answer key on page 2 when that box is ticked. Colors you fill in on screen stay on screen. By keyboard: the arrow keys move around the grid, Enter colors a square, a digit colors it by that number and Backspace clears it.

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How it works

This color by number bugs set opens on a Green grasshopper on a twig. Seven more insects follow, from a caterpillar to a firefly glowing in the dark, and each description in the picture list below carries a checked fact.

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Eight insects in three groups

Every bug here is an insect, an animal with three pairs of jointed legs. Three hop or crawl: Green grasshopper, Caterpillar on a twig and Praying mantis. Three are shown from above with their wings: Blue dragonfly, Housefly and Firefly at night, which is a beetle. Two more beetles have jaws or a horn: Stag beetle and Rhinoceros beetle.

Grasshopper, caterpillar and dragonfly color by number

The Green grasshopper has 84 squares to color, the Caterpillar on a twig 78 and the Blue dragonfly 100, with four wings that stay white. The Praying mantis is the quickest sheet at 55 squares, and the Stag beetle needs only 2 crayons, brown and black.

  • Firefly at night is the only easy sheet with no white square: 94 of its 144 squares are the purple night.

Questions and answers

Are these color by number insects, or other bugs too?

All eight are insects. More bugs have pages of their own: spiders, ladybugs, ants and butterflies, eight pictures each.

Do these work as caterpillar color by number worksheets?

One sheet does: Caterpillar on a twig, the second picture. Its easy grid uses green, yellow, black and brown, and the body segments take turns, green then yellow. A monarch caterpillar is on the butterfly page.

Is there a dragonfly coloring by numbers sheet with more detail?

Yes. Open More options and choose Detailed 24 by 24: the Blue dragonfly grows to 476 squares in 6 colors, with gray veins on the wings and light blue bands down the body.

All 8 pictures

Hoppers and crawlers 3

  • Caterpillar on a twig A caterpillar with green and yellow segments, a black eye, black feelers and black legs, walking along a brown twig with two green leaves; the background is left white. On the detailed grid the segments are round, the leaves are light green with green veins and the twig has orange marks. A caterpillar is the young of a butterfly or a moth. Easy: 4 colors, 78 squares to color. Detailed: 6 colors, 270 squares to color.
  • Green grasshopper A green grasshopper seen from the side on a brown twig: a long folded hind leg, a yellow belly, a black eye and a black feeler; the background is left white. On the detailed grid it has two feelers, light green wing stripes and a light green edge on the hind leg, and the twig has orange marks. A grasshopper leaps with its powerful hind legs. Easy: 4 colors, 84 squares to color. Detailed: 6 colors, 268 squares to color.
  • Praying mantis A green praying mantis standing upright on a brown twig with its front legs folded, a wide head, two black eyes and black feelers; the background is left white. On the detailed grid the body has a light green stripe, the eyes are white with black pupils and the twig has orange marks. The folded front legs, which look like praying, give the mantis its name. Easy: 3 colors, 55 squares to color. Detailed: 5 colors, 201 squares to color.
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Fliers 3

  • Blue dragonfly A dragonfly seen from above on a green background: a long blue body, black eyes and four wings left white. On the detailed grid the background is light green with green reeds, the wings have gray veins and light blue tips, the body has light blue bands and the black eyes have green spots. Dragonflies have two pairs of clear wings. Easy: 3 colors, 100 squares to color. Detailed: 6 colors, 476 squares to color.
  • Firefly at night A firefly seen from above in a purple night: black wing cases, an orange head with two black feelers, and a tail end that glows yellow with yellow sparks around it. On the detailed grid the glow has a light green edge and an orange ring, the wing cases have a gray shine, the head has a red spot and stars are left white. Fireflies are beetles, and they glow mostly at dusk. Easy: 4 colors, 144 squares to color. Detailed: 7 colors, 570 squares to color.
  • Housefly A housefly seen from above on a yellow background: a black body, two red eyes, black legs and two wings left white. On the detailed grid the middle of the body is gray with two black stripes, the wings have gray veins and the tail end has gray bands. Houseflies are gray to black, with red eyes and a single pair of wings. Easy: 3 colors, 104 squares to color. Detailed: 4 colors, 446 squares to color.

Beetles 2

  • Rhinoceros beetle A rhinoceros beetle seen from the side on a green leaf: a round brown back, a black head with one long black horn curving up, and black legs; the background is left white. On the detailed grid a second small horn shows, the eye is white, the back has an orange shine and the leaf has a light green rib. Rhinoceros beetles are named for their horns, which in most kinds only the males have. Easy: 3 colors, 90 squares to color. Detailed: 5 colors, 324 squares to color.
  • Stag beetle A stag beetle seen from above: brown jaws like antlers, a brown head, a black middle, brown wing cases with a black line between them and black legs; the background is left white. On the detailed grid it has two black eyes, a gray shine on the middle and an orange shine on one wing case. The stag beetle is named for the male's big jaws, which look like a stag's antlers. Easy: 2 colors, 76 squares to color. Detailed: 4 colors, 310 squares to color.

How this list was compiled: Our own pixel pictures, drawn square by square for this site on 12 by 12 and 24 by 24 grids in October 2026. Nothing is traced, scanned or copied from clip art, and no picture shows a brand, a logo or a character from a film, show, book or game. The fact in each description and the line that insects have three pairs of legs were checked against Wikipedia in October 2026. The color and square counts were counted from the finished grids. Licence: own work

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