Heartopia: Insect Catching Hobby Guide

In Heartopia, there are a bunch of hobbies designed to help you unwind and explore at your own pace. While fishing and gardening are the ones that’ll take up most of your time early on, there’s another relaxing and addictive hobby you need to unlock: Insect Catching.

Insect Catching encourages players to slow down, pay attention to their surroundings, and find the fluttering and crawling creatures hidden throughout Heartpoia. Every leaf, rock, and flower can hide a new insect. Read on to learn how you can unlock the Insect Catching hobby in Heartopia and complete your insect journal.

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By Usama Ali

How to Unlock the Insect Catching Hobby in Heartopia

Before you can begin your insect adventures, you first need to unlock the hobby. Insect Catching becomes available at Developer Level 6. At this stage, you get a Hobby Expansion Ticket, which you can use to permanently unlock one of three available hobbies.

To unlock Insect Catching:

Visit Naniwa, who is located near the river in his garden.
Speak with Naniwa to learn the basics of catching insects and how this hobby enhances your Heartopia experience.
Visit all three Hobby Mentors, then return to Naniwa with your Hobby Expansion Ticket.
Hand over the ticket to permanently unlock Insect Catching.
Once unlocked, Naniwa will gift you a bubble net. This is the main tool you’ll use for catching insects.

How to Catch Insects in Heartopia

Catching insects in Heartopia is pretty simple, but it requires patience. Here’s what you need to do:

Equip the bubble net from your toolbox.
Slowly approach an insect to avoid startling it.
Tap on the action button to make a quick bubble, or hold it to charge a precise bubble for a careful capture.
Release the bubble when in range to catch the insect.

Once caught, insects can be displayed in Vivariums at home or sold to Albert Jr. For gold.

Some insects get scared easily. This is why you need to move carefully to improve your chances of catching them.

All Insects in Heartopia and Where to Find Them

The sections below cover the insects you can find in Heartopia, along with their level requirements, locations, weather preferences, and active times.

This guide is a work in progress. We’ll continue adding more insects and update them as we unlock more.

Butterflies

Name	Location	Time of Day	Weather Conditions	Level Required
Apollo	Bait the Insects Event	All Day	Sunny, Rainbow, Rainy	Level 1
Cabbage White	Fishing Village	All Day	Sunny, Rainbow, Rainy	Level 1
Old World Swallowtail	Forest	All Day	Sunny, Rainbow, Rainy	Level 1
Orange-Tip	Central Area	All Day	Sunny, Rainbow, Rainy	Level 1
Postman Butterfly	Bait the Insects Event	All Day	Sunny, Rainbow, Rainy	Level 1
Sulkowsky's Morpho	Inflatable Insect Attractor	All Day	Sunny, Rainbow, Rainy	Level 2
Common Blue Butterfly	Central Area	All Day	Sunny, Rainbow, Rainy	Level 2
Mini Moon Moth	Suburbs	6 AM – 12 AM	Sunny, Rainbow, Rainy	Level 3
Purple Emperor	Flower Field, Whale Mountain	12 PM – 12 AM	Sunny, Rainbow	Level 3
Rajah Brooke's Birdwing	Home Lots	6 PM – 12 PM	Sunny, Rainbow	Level 3
Beautiful Leopard	---------	---------	---------	---------
Mourning Cloak	---------	---------	---------	---------
Peacock Butterfly	---------	---------	---------	---------
White Witch	---------	---------	---------	---------
Green Birdwing	---------	---------	---------	---------
Blue Morpho	---------	---------	---------	---------
Chestnut Tiger	---------	---------	---------	---------

Bees

Name	Location	Time of Day	Weather Conditions	Level Required
Bumblebee	Flower Field	All Day	Sunny, Rainbow, Rainy	Level 2
Waroona Cuckoo Bee	Forest Deer Tower	All Day	Sunny, Rainbow, Rainy	Level 3
Splay-Footed Carpenter	---------	---------	---------	---------
Cerulean Carpenter	---------	---------	---------	---------

Dragonflies

Name	Location	Time of Day	Weather Conditions	Level Required
Large Red Damselfly	Waterside	All Day	Sunny, Rainbow, Rainy	Level 1
Four-Spotted Skimmer	Suburban Lakeshore	All Day	Rainbow, Rainy	Level 2
Common Whitetail	---------	---------	---------	---------

Beetles

Name	Location	Time of Day	Weather Conditions	Level Required
Asparagus Beetle	Flower Field	All Day	Sunny, Rainbow, Rainy	Level 1
Common Brimstone	Suburbs	All Day	Sunny, Rainbow, Rainy	Level 1
European Firebug	Home Lot Rocks	All Day	Sunny, Rainbow, Rainy	Level 1
Amethyst Flower Beetle	Home Lot Rocks	All Day	Rainbow, Rainy	Level 2
Green Tiger Beetle	Onsen Mountain	All Day	Sunny, Rainbow, Rainy	Level 2
Seven-Spotted Ladybug	Suburbs	All Day	Sunny, Rainbow	Level 2
Wasp Beetle	Forest	All Day	Rainy, Rainbow	Level 3
Fire-Colored Beetle	Onsen Mountain	All Day	Sunny, Rainbow, Rainy	Level 3
Four-Spotted Ladybug	---------	---------	---------	---------
Alpine Longhorn Beetle	---------	---------	---------	---------
Asian Lady Beetle	---------	---------	---------	---------
Elegant Flower Beetle	---------	---------	---------	---------
Golden Jewel Scarab	---------	---------	---------	---------
Stag Beetle	---------	---------	---------	---------
Minotaur Beetle	---------	---------	---------	---------
Horned Beetle	---------	---------	---------	---------

Grasshoppers and Mantises

Name	Location	Time of Day	Weather Conditions	Level Required
Gold Grasshopper	Onsen Mountain	All Day	Sunny, Rainbow, Rainy	Level 1
Siberian Grasshopper	Fishing Village	All Day	Sunny, Rainbow, Rainy	Level 2
Katydid	Flower Field	All Day	Sunny, Rainbow, Rainy	Level 3
Pink Katydid	Bait the Insects Event	All Day	Sunny, Rainbow, Rainy	Level 3
Large Banded Grasshopper	---------	---------	---------	---------
Mediterranean Mantis	---------	---------	---------	---------
Giant Asian Mantis	---------	---------	---------	---------
Conehead Mantis	---------	---------	---------	---------