Animal Crossing: New Horizons July Bugs & Fish Guide - All New Critters Available

Itching for some new bugs to net and new fish to catch in Animal Crossing: New Horizons? That’s good! Because July is here and with it comes some new critters to collect for Blathers’ museum. Read on for all of the new bugs and fish added to New Horizons in July for both hemispheres.

For those you don’t know, Nintendo follows the seasons in Animal Crossing and that includes fish migrations and the such. You don’t have infinite time to catch some of these as a result. With a total of 80 different fish and 80 insect species, you don’t want to miss out when they take off for the season.

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Animal Crossing Northern Hemisphere Fish Arriving in June

It’s a pretty quiet month all things considered. The addition of two new 10,000 bell fish friends is the good news. One of them is even available all day long on your pier!

FishBell ValueLocationShadow SizeAvailability
Sweetfish900RiverSmallAll Day
Puffer Fish250OceanSmallAll Day
Napoleonfish10,000OceanLarge4 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Ocean Sunfish4,000OceanMedium4 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Blue Marlin10,000PierLargeAll Day

Animal Crossing Southern Hemisphere Fish Arriving in June

Sadly there’s nothing new for our southern hemisphere Animal Crossing fishing friends. Check back next time!

Animal Crossing Northern Hemisphere Bugs Arriving in June

This is the most populated category for the month as the northern hemisphere gets both a bunch of stag beetles and a swath of cicadas. Make sure you’ve got enough palm trees on your island!

BugBell ValueLocationAvailability
Walking Leaf600Disguised as a LeafAll Day
Blue Weevil Beetle800Palm TreesAll Day
Cyclommatus Stag8,000Palm Trees5 p.m. – 8 a.m.
Horned Elephant8,000Palm Trees5 p.m. – 8 a.m.
Horned Atlus8,000Palm Trees5 p.m. – 8 a.m.
Golden Stag12,000Palm Trees5 p.m. – 8 a.m.
Giraffe Stag12,000Palm Trees5 p.m. – 8 a.m.
Horned Hercules12,000Palm Trees5 p.m. – 8 a.m.
Grasshopper160Ground8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Earth-Boring Dung Beetle300GroundAll Day
Cicada Shell10TreesAll Day
Brown Cicada250Trees8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Robust Cicada300Trees8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Giant Cicada500Trees8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Evening Cicada550Trees
4 a.m. – 8 a.m. & 4 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Walking Stick600Trees
4 a.m. – 8 a.m. & 5 p.m. – 7 p.m.
Miyama Stag1,000TreesAll Day
Horned Dynastid1,350Trees5 p.m. – 8 a.m.
Saw Stag2,000TreesAll Day
Giant Stag10,000Trees11 p.m. – 8 a.m.

Animal Crossing Southern Hemisphere Bugs Arriving in June

Sorry if you were holding out hope for bug collection, southern hemisphere. There’s absolutely nothing new this month for you. Honestly it’s a bit of a disappointment, especially with Nintendo working on a couple of “summer” updates. (Summer in quotes because seasons are relative to hemispheres). That update arrives in just a few days so stay tuned as we’ll have guides available for all of the new underwater critters to catch with swimming and diving being added.

And that’s it! Best of luck when it comes to completing your collection.

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Dillon Skiffington

Dillon is the Senior Game Guides Editor at Fanbyte. He's been writing about video games for 15 years and has thousands of hours logged in FFXIV and hundreds of hours in Destiny 2.