Dear Plant Tycoon Players,

I have started a Insect Chart of what I believe the bugs come out too. Even though I have started again, (last game I had only 4 to catch). I will place what I have started here for you to look at. If you have any replies please PM me, as I wish to keep this area for the chart. (Plus I don't know if I can do that.) If I can not do this will either LadyCFII or someone with the power take this down, and I will send them the chart.

Also if you know what insect comes out to a special type of foliage or flower that I have not got please PM me so that I may add it. I will give you the credit for your help.

Thanks.

P.S. As I find more I will be adding them, either one by one or a group.

Creepy-crawlies: by DW.

I believe that the bugs listed below do not need special foliage or flowers to emerge in the green house of Plant Tycoon. This is because I was able to catch all these bugs without any tier 2, 3 or 4 seeds (either foliage or flower).

Each Common insect, be it beetle, dragonfly, spider or butterfly that you catch for the second time will give you Five dollars (bucks, Pounds, Yen, or Euro).

Using Algorithm's insect chart and sfrose's numbering scheme. These are the common bugs as numbered:

1. Common Blue Butterfly
2. Common Mission Blue Butterfly
4. Common Black Moth
13. Common Green Beetle
14. Common Brown _bug_
15. Common Ladybug
16. Common Shiny Blue Beetle
25. Common Blue Dragonfly
26. Common Pink Dragonfly
27. Common Tiger Dragonfly
28. Common Emerald Dragonfly
38. Common Yellow Spider
39. Common Brown Spider
40. Common Spotted Spider

Each Uncommon insect, that you catch for a second time is worth twenty dollars (bucks, Pounds, Yen, or Euro). These bugs are as numbered:

5. Uncommon Pale Moth
6. Uncommon Lapis Butterfly
7. Uncommon Lemon Moth
17. Uncommon Hiding Beetle
18. Uncommon Zebra Beetle
19. Uncommon Cockroach
29. Uncommon Dart Dragonfly
30. Uncommon Fragile Dragonfly
31. Uncommon Ghost Dragonfly
41. Uncommon Pearly Spider
42. Uncommon Limelike Spider
44. Uncommon Cricket Spider

Each Rare insect, that you catch for a second time is worth forty dollars (bucks, Pounds, Yen, or Euro). These bugs are as numbered:

9. Rare Plum Butterfly
10. Rare Cherry Butterfly
21. Rare Ebony Scarab
22. Rare Fire Scarab
33. Rare Fire Dragonfly
35. Rare Earth Dragonfly
45. Rare Bumpy Spider
46. Rare Jade Spider

These next insects need a special flowers and/or foliage:

3. Common Fern Butterfly

The common Fern butterfly, which is worth only five dollars after your first catch, comes out to any fern in your green house. I have caught this butterfly many times, but only when a tier 2 foliage Fern was out.

I know these are out of order, but I feel you all would like to know what I'm finding when I find it.

34. Rare Black Dragonfly

I believe that this Dragonfly, which is worth forty dollars after your first catch, can be seen with a Venomous plant. I have caught this Dragonfly while my tier 1 Venomous plants where out at different times. Venomous is a tier 2 flower.


37. Common Cactus Spider

This common Cactus spider worth only five dollars after your first catch; can be seen with any tier 2 Pipe Cacti foliage. I was able to catch this spider with only four pipe cacti out, and I know them to be only tier 1 flowers.

11. Rare Jet Moth

The Jet Moth; which is worth forty dollars after your first catch, comes out to a Tier 3 flower called Nox. As you need your gold soil and maybe water to help bring this plant in as well. I would like to give the credit of the Jet Moth to Kasey323.ink, a.k.a. Charley.

Deathwing. I have all 48 bugs. I will email you my screen shot if you like. The foliage that attracts them is already in the jars, exception the ones you haven't caught.

Can it be entirely true that what's in the jar is what the _bug_ comes out to? The Rare Golden Spider has some tigerfern foliage in its jar, but it never came out for me until I had a number of ridgeballs, never with any of the tigerferns.

To both Ip7p and Sailorben, I have not yet finished. I know bugs come out to very special flowers and foliage, and they are mostly not the foliage in the jars.

20. Uncommon Mystic Scarab

This Mystic Scarab gives you twenty dollars after your first catch; the tier 3 flower called Mystic brings it out. I was able to catch this scarab while five tier 1 foliage and four tier 2 foliage was out with the Tier 3 flower called, (yes that's right) Mystic. I would also like to thank Kasey323.ink, a.k.a. Charley as well for his help.

36. Rare Golden Dragonfly

This golden Dragonfly, which is worth forty dollar after your first catch, can be seen with the tier 3 flower known as Blazing. I was able to catch it while five tier 1 foliage and four tier 2 foliage was out. Again I wish to give the credit to Kasey323.ink, a.k.a. Charley, for sending me his insect chart, Thanks.

8. Uncommon Amber Butterfly

I finally caught myself an uncommon Amber Butterfly. This butterfly is now worth twenty dollars. I was able to catch this butterfly while I had nine Aureus out, yes this flower is a tier 3. Yep; five tier 1 foliage and four tier 2 foliage.

12. Rare Golden Butterfly

I have just caught this rare Golden Butterfly, worth forty dollars if you catch it a second time. I had again, nine tier 4 Fabled out on again five tier 1 foliage and four tier 2 foliage. This included the Fabled Lemonbush, a.k.a. The Fabled Rose of Isola.

24. Rare Golden Beetle

This rare beetle is worth forty dollars after your first catch. I have found this golden beetle like the golden foliage of the tier 3 Ananas. I was able to miss and then catch one. I had only tier 1 flowers; they had not even bloomed.

43. Uncommon Bamboo Spider

This spider is worth twenty dollars after your first catch. This red looking spider is known as a Bamboo spider and why you may ask? Yes that's right it comes out to the Bamboo foliage, which is a Tier 3. This info is thanks to Kasey323.ink, a.k.a. Charley. Thanks again.

23. Rare Shiny Flower Beetle

As this beetle is rare, it is worth forty dollars after you first catch. Kasey323.ink a.k.a. Charley and I have been able to bring this rare beetle out with Tier 3 foliage known as Orchid. In the greenhouse I had six Tier 1 flowers. Thanks again to Charley for his major help.

I am trying to get #48 and #32 - and I don't know what to plant to lure them in. I have everything else - apparently that's the rare golden spider and the uncommon glassy dragonfly. Can anyone give me some pointers? Please?

There are two very long discussions that have help with both of those insects. If you use the search function over on the left, and search for "shiny beetle" and "golden spider" (use the quotation marks), you'll go right to the relevant posts.

Note: For anyone reading this a few days after I made it, you'll need to use the Advanced search and change the date range to something longer than 1 week.

thanks - I will try that

i have collected all of the insects, but did not pay attention to the connections to the plants at the time. i do find now that if a like colored plant is available, that insect will go to it.

I have not finished yet, as I know these last three come out to Tier 4 foliage and Flowers, But I want to make sure this Guide is help full to all.

DW, you are doing a great job of gathering the information!

And Happy Birthday!

Good Job DW! I am sure that you are helping many people with all this info! You are doing a really good job! Keep up the good work!

47. Rare Tahitian Spider

The rare Tahitian spider is worth forty dollars after your first catch. As the named of this spider is Tahitian, it needs that flower to appear in your green house. The Tahitian is a Tier 4 flower that can either be bought at the supply store or mutated.


Only Two More To Go

32. Uncommon Glassy Dragonfly

I have finally caught an uncommon Glassy Dragonfly. The second one will now be worth twenty dollars. This dragonfly, I have been told by many people comes out to the tier 4 foliage Multiflora and this is true. I would like to thank Kasey323.ink (Yes, Charley again) and also Funkiroller too.

One more to go.

Your welcome. I would help you anytime!

I believe that the last one you are missing, the Golden Spider, comes out for Ridgeballs.

48. Rare Golden Spider

This is the last spider that anybody can catch, (unless you have already seen a tier 4 Ridgeball). It is now worth forty dollars. I have been told by sfrose, Funkiroller and Kasey323.ink (Charley) that this spider was brought out by the tier 4 Ridgeball and this is the right information.

You should have seen this come up when you caught your last insect.

Your nursery should also have an added object, like this.


The last thing is your collectable insect area should now be full to match this picture from both Kasey323.ink and Ip7p.

Thanks for sticking around everyone

Congrats on finishing your collection! I think you did a wonderful job!

Yes! Congrats! and thank you for this great job!

Deathwing, I am greatful for all the info and hard work on the _bug_ chart. One thing I found while trying to follow your tips, what I found that might be helpful the JET MOTH comes out more with Violas more so than Nox. I took the time to make every nox possible trying to get that moth to come out. At one point I gave up at had a bunch of Violas out and here came the Jet Moth one after another with out a Nox on the screen. Just wanted to let everyone know if they are having trouble getting it with the NOX try the Violas

Thank you, I will try that as well this time, but for I believe most people the Jet Moth came out to a NOX, but if the Violas works to, that's good news too.

HI! I discovered the six magic plants of isola but i can't complete my _bug_ collection, how can I get this six bugs?
rare Jet Moth
uncommon Mystic Scarab
rare Golden Beetle
uncommon Glassy Dragonfly
rare Tahitian Spider
rare Golden Spider
Help me please!

Being patient and also... patient!!
and you may look at the PT guide

You can check the whole guide, with no jumps is the Plant Tycoon Guide area. This link should also help as it is the whole guide.

I just caught that one! It's my 47th - one more to go! A couple of minutes later a second one appeared. It's like waiting for a bus - wait for ages then two come along together.

I had a Nox in flower, but no Violas.

Hi all!

Well, the following two insects,

common Shiny Blue Beetle, and
common Tiger Dragonfly

do not appear, ever, at all, period, when there are 15 empty pots, which leads me to believe that they require a special plant or foliage to be present for them to appear.

i would guess the common Tiger Dragonfly requires a Tigerfern but I do not have any proof of this. not being a common shiny blue beetle myself, i do not have any guesses as to what flower or foliage a common shiny blue beetle would find appealing.

so Deathwing - your work so far on this project has been exemplary, but your job is not 100% done as you may have thought.. you have two more to go

I'm "rooting" for you

Cheers,
-Borg

Dear Borg,

This is strange, I have always caught those to bugs before I even got to the last tier plants. (Tigerfern is a Tier 4) I have again been able to catch both of these bugs in my newly restarted games (Yes games) while only tier 1 foliage and flowers were out. Either with or without the fourpetal maple (a magic Plant). I have never said anything about catching bugs while all the pots where empty. If your able to catch them, I did not know that. But thanks Borg, I'll watch next time, while I'm playing.

My bugs collection is finish! The last one was this Jet Moth and it arrived as I had 2 Nox flowers (but no viola). I think it really prefers the Nox flower!

The common Tiger Dragonfly has a Tigerfern leaf in its collection bottle, so I'd hazard a guess that it likes Tigerferns.

The common Shiny Blue Beetle has a different leaf in its bottle, but I can't be sure what particular variety of foliage it is. It looks similar to that in the rare Shiny Flower Beetle's bottle. Those with better eyesight may be able to identify it.

8 hours of collecting data on 15 spotted tigerferns:

Bug # 1 Seen: 19 (6 %) common Blue Butterfly
Bug # 2 Seen: 26 (8 %) common Mission Blue Butterfly
Bug # 4 Seen: 17 (5 %) common Black Moth
Bug # 5 Seen: 4 (1 %) uncommon Pale Moth
Bug # 6 Seen: 3 (1 %) uncommon Lapis Butterfly
Bug # 7 Seen: 6 (2 %) uncommon Lemon Moth
Bug # 9 Seen: 5 (2 %) rare Plum Butterfly
Bug #10 Seen: 4 (1 %) rare Cherry Butterfly
Bug #13 Seen: 25 (8 %) common Green Beetle
Bug #14 Seen: 17 (5 %) common Brown Bug
Bug #15 Seen: 19 (6 %) common Ladybug
Bug #17 Seen: 4 (1 %) uncommon Hiding Beetle
Bug #18 Seen: 4 (1 %) uncommon Zebra Beetle
Bug #19 Seen: 7 (2 %) uncommon Cockroach
Bug #21 Seen: 2 (1 %) rare Ebony Scarab
Bug #22 Seen: 6 (2 %) rare Fire Scarab
Bug #25 Seen: 20 (6 %) common Blue Dragonfly
Bug #26 Seen: 17 (5 %) common Pink Dragonfly
Bug #28 Seen: 14 (4 %) common Emerald Dragonfly
Bug #29 Seen: 3 (1 %) uncommon Dart Dragonfly
Bug #30 Seen: 5 (2 %) uncommon Fragile Dragonfly
Bug #31 Seen: 5 (2 %) uncommon Ghost Dragonfly
Bug #33 Seen: 5 (2 %) rare Fire Dragonfly
Bug #35 Seen: 7 (2 %) rare Earth Dragonfly
Bug #38 Seen: 18 (6 %) common Yellow Spider
Bug #39 Seen: 26 (8 %) common Brown Spider
Bug #40 Seen: 15 (5 %) common Spotted Spider
Bug #41 Seen: 3 (1 %) uncommon Pearly Spider
Bug #42 Seen: 2 (1 %) uncommon Limelike Spider
Bug #44 Seen: 4 (1 %) uncommon Cricket Spider
Bug #45 Seen: 3 (1 %) rare Bumpy Spider
Bug #46 Seen: 1 (0 %) rare Jade Spider

Bug number 27, the common Tiger Dragonfly, is conspicuously absent. One thought is that it is attracted to Tigerferns but needs a higher tier of flower than spotted. A better guess is that it is not attracted to Tigerferns, since DW reports always collecting this insect in new games, well before tier 4 is ever reached.

No progress on the common shiny blue beetle either. So basically, no progress

So it still remains a mystery.

addendum: with the following group of starter plants:
spotted reptans
bluestar maranta
citrus maranta
citrus maple
citrus astera
fourpetal ball cactus
citrus ball cactus
spotted ball cactus
jalapa ball cactus
both the common shiny blue beetle and the common Tiger Dragonfly made an appearance. just have to figure out which foliage or flower is responsible.

There is the Common Shiny Blue Beetle.

On screen...
Spotted, Bluestar, Jalapa, Fourpetal and Citrus Maranata and Ballcacti
Spotted, Bluestar, Jalapa and Citrus Maple and a rosa fern.

your red pots are crooked. i would complain

with 3 spotted reptans on the screen, virtual Bug Collector has logged 48 total bugs/22 different species of bug in the last few hours, and none of them were the blue or tiger variety we seek.

I'll come back in a couple hours and swap the spotted reptans for something else and see what happens

I've got the bug collector monitoring the bugs, the gardener watering the plants, and the seed tray/charts organizing the seeds and providing all the breeding information. if this keeps up the game will be able to play itself without me

Cheers,
Borg

PS Jalapa Ball Cactus makes common shiny blue beetles appear. not sure if it is the jalapa or the ball cactus though.

virtual Bug Collector

When is this coming out??? lol

You've seen this already, haven't you?

Nope, I've not seen it borg.

Borg, I believe Cactus species is responsible for the shiny blue beetle. I've been researching that species and have caught a ton of them (at least more than I've ever seen before).

Addendum: Just read your post. Its Ball Cactus. I have not planted Jalapa Balls in this session.

lp "seven" of p wants to now where this infamous _bug_ collector is?

I believe Ip7p is right. I have seen 5 shiny blue beetles while just having 13 ball cacti out.

2 daisy, 2 Rosa, 2 Fragrant, 2 Ven, 1 spotted, 1 bluestar, 1 jalapa, 1 fourpetal and 1 citrus. (with no buds or flowers)

Now 1 after the ball cacti with buds & now 1 after the flowers have come in.

Ball cactus it is then. I had only 1 plant out, a fourpetal ball cactus, and found lots of common shiny blue beetles. thank you all for the help!

i am trying to figure out the tiger dragonfly at the moment and am not having much success yet

Borg, that bugger is like Mikey: He'll come out to anything. But I see the most of them with Fragrant and Fourpetal anything.

P.S. He also likes the Isola Soil (no plant, just soil). Silly bugger. LOL

i tried several different flowers and foliages one at a time and the only one that seemed to work for me for the COMMON TIGER DRAGONFLY was the JALAPA flower.

So here is what I think. There are 48 bugs. These can be divided into 3 categories:

(a) 32 need no special flowers or foliage
(b) 8 need a special flower
(c) 8 need a special foliage
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32 + 8 + 8 = 48 total bugs.

here are the 8 that need a special flower:
uncommon Amber Butterfly - Aureus
rare Jet Moth - Nox
rare Golden Butterfly - Fabled
common Tiger Dragonfly - Jalapa
rare Black Dragonfly - Venomous
rare Golden Dragonfly - Blazing
uncommon Mystic Scarab - Mystic
rare Tahitian Spider - Tahitian

here are the 8 that need a special foliage:
common Fern Butterfly - Fern
common Shiny Blue Beetle - Ball Cactus
rare Shiny Flower Beetle - Orchid
rare Golden Beetle - Ananas
uncommon Glassy Dragonfly - Multiflora
common Cactus Spider - Pipe Cactus
uncommon Bamboo Spider - Bamboo
rare Golden Spider - Ridgeball

Cheers,
Borg

Congratulations indeed. This post has been so helpful to me.

I had never even seen a glassy dragonfly, amber butterfly or rare shiny flower beetle. The beetle gave me the most trouble, even after putting out 9 orchids it didn't appear. But I kept up with the orchids and eventually it did. I had aureus, nox, jalapa, blazing - all in bloom, and a rosaceae orchid on the way which hadn't flowered when the beetle finally appeared.

Well done, Growbag.

I think in one of my 'starting' games, an Amber butterfly came out, WITHOUT Aureus flowers available. I'm not too sure, since it was some time ago. It came to some Maranta leaves, I think.