Guide: Bugs, Fish And Sea Creatures Leaving Animal Crossing: New Horizons After August

Guide: Bugs, Fish And Sea Creatures Leaving Animal Crossing: New Horizons After August

August is ending in a week, and this means there will be a number of bugs, fish and sea creatures that will no longer be available to catch in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

Notable Animal Crossing: New Horizons critters leaving the Northern Hemisphere after August include many of the rare beetles as well as the Napoleon Fish. For the Southern Hemisphere, notable critters leaving include the blowfish and Dung Beetle.

You can find the full list of these departing critters below, as well as when and where to catch them:

Northern Hemisphere

Bugs

Name Location Timing
Common bluebottle Flying 4am – 7pm
Great purple emperor Flying 4am – 7pm
Brown cicada On trees 8am – 5pm
Robust cicada On trees 8am – 5pm
Giant cicada On trees 8am – 5pm
Evening cicada On trees 4am – 8am & 4pm – 7pm
Cicada shell On trees All day
Jewel beetle On tree stumps All day
Blue weevil beetle On palm trees All day
Scarab beetle On trees 11pm – 8am
Drone beetle On trees All day
Saw stag On trees All day
Miyama stag On trees All day
Giant stag On trees 11pm – 8am
Cyclommatus stag On palm trees 5pm – 8am
Golden stag On palm trees 5pm – 8am
Giraffe stag On palm trees 5pm – 8am
Horned dynastid On trees 5pm – 8am
Horned atlas On palm trees 5pm – 8am
Horned elephant On palm trees 5pm – 8am
Horned hercules On palm trees 5pm – 8am

Fish

Name Location Timing
Killifish Pond All day
Frog Pond All day
Giant snakehead Pond 9am – 4pm
Napoleonfish Sea 4am – 9pm
Squid Sea All day

Sea Creatures

Name Swimming Speed Timing
Vampire squid Quick long lunges 4pm – 9am
Sea pineapple Slow long lunges All day

Southern Hemisphere

Bugs

Name Location Timing
Rajah Brooke’s birdwing Flying 8am – 5pm
Damselfly Flying All day
Dung beetle Rolling snowballs along the ground All day

Fish

Name Location Timing
Pond smelt River All day
Blowfish Sea 9pm – 4am

Sea Creatures

Name Swimming Speed Timing
Venus’ flower basket Quick long lunges All day
Sweet shrimp Slow 4pm – 9am
Sea pig Quick long lunges 4pm – 9am

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