A collection of rhymes, song lyrics and poems about insects, spiders and other bugs. Just click on a title to see the rhyme, lyrics or poem in a new browser window (you will not lose this page).

• Nursery Rhymes
• Other Rhymes & Sayings
• Song Lyrics (some with music   score)
• Classical Poems
• Contemporary Poems

Nursery Rhymes:

• Ladybird, Ladybird
• I Know A Beetle
• The Ants Go Marching
• Little Miss Muffet
• Incy Wincy Spider

• Fiddle-Dee-Dee
• Bees
• A Flea And A Fly
• There Was An Old Lady
• The Spider and the Fly

• Baby Bye
• Old Man And A Bee
• Lady Bugs

Other Rhymes & Sayings:

• The Yorkshireman's Coat of Arms - A Flea, A Fly
• Eric the Half-a-Bee (Mony Python)
• The Busy Ant (Mary Ann Hoberman*)
• The Spider (Robert P. Tristram Coffin)
• Caterpillars (Brod Bagert)
• The Insects' World (Ethel Jacobson)
• Mealybugs (Jack W. Beardsley)
• Mantis (David McCord)
• A Conservative (Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman)

• Yorkshire Sayings - As t' Flea Said
• Budget of Paradoxes - Great Fleas (DeMorgan)
• Not a Fly (Alexander Pope)
• The Spider's Touch (Alexander Pope)
• The Ant (Ogden Nash)
• The Termite (Ogden Nash)
• The Fly (Ogden Nash)
• Bugs (Ogden Nash)
• Inscription for a Fly Swatter (Richard Armour)

Song Lyrics:

• Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me 
• Fly 's in the Buttermilk - Skip to my Lou 
• The Blue-Tailed Fly - Jimmy Crack Corn 
• Insect Parts (Suzy Gazlay*) 

• Inchworm (Frank Loesser) 
• The Bee Song (origial lyrics by Arthur Askey)
• The Bee Song (modified lyrics after Askey) 

Classical Poems:

• The Grasshopper (Lovelace)
• On The Grasshopper And Cricket (Keats)
• The Dragon-fly (Landor)
• The Flea (Donne)
• The Fly (Blake)
• The Mosquito (Lawrence)
• To A Louse (Burns)

• The Glow-worm (Wordsworth)
• The Star And The Glow-worm (Wordsworth)
• To A Butterfly (first poem) (Wordsworth)
• To A Butterfly (second poem) (Wordsworth)
• Flying Crooked (Graves)
• Clock-a-Clay (Clare)
• Grasshoppers (Clare)

Contemporary Poems:

• Be A Butterfly (Grace Nichols)
• Moth (Clifford Dyment)