Insect or bug-related band names

Adam and the Ants
The Beatles
Bee Gees
The Crickets
Doug and the Slugs
Iron Butterfly

How many more can you think of?

If we include "fictional" bands or alter-egos there's also:

Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars
Weevil (kudos to whoever can guess where that's from!)

 

Who can forget the Mosquitos (from Gilligan's Island)!

 

Wasn't Alice Cooper's original band The Earwigs?

 

the cicadas

 

The Bedbugs (with Lowell George) from a 1966 episode of F-Troop.

Lou

 

the yellowjackets

 

Gnat King Cole?

 

The one that kills them all:

Black Flag

 

Ladybug Transistor

Killer Bees

 

The Bees
The Kingbees
The Roches

 

WASP

 

A Band Of Bees
Persephone's Bees
Honey & The Bees
The Killer Bees
Bees Make Honey
Mouthful Of Bees
Bugs
Cockroach/Yeti
The Drones
Fly
The Flys
The Time Flys (a bit of a cheat?)
The Scorpions
Spider
WASP
The Wasps

 

Pillbugs
Insect Trust

 

Voice of the Beehive

The Buggles

The Bugaloos

Sting

Alien Ant Farm

The Five Mosquitoes (from a Disney LP ca. 1972)


and FWIW, scorpions and spiders are arachnids, not insects...

-Aaron

 

Spiders From Mars

and FWIW, scorpions and spiders are arachnids, not insects...

Oh crap!

 

Ladybugs
Snail (If slugs are allowed, it's only fair to include their shelled brethren)
Bugs Henderson and the Shuffle Kings
The Horse Flies
Moth
Centipede
Maggot Brain
and last but hardly least... Blowfly

 

The Insect Surfers, an excellent surf band from a while back... saw them at The Milestone Club in Charlotte, NC in the mid-80's. Killer!

 

Since most would probably consider spiders "bug-related," I'll point out that there was a New Orleans vocal group called The Spiders in the early 50s.

Of more recent vintage: The Lime Spiders.

One of the many Beatles knock-off bands, no doubt ficticious, who had albums released in 1964 to try to cash in with unsuspecting parents was The Buggs.

And then there's the Australian band The In-Sect, who had a great punky song ca. 1965 called "I Can See My Love."

 

then there is the infamous "Halo of Flies", from Minneapolis, late 80's on Amphetamine Reptile Records. There is a compilation of their tunes titled "Music for Insect Minds".

 

Spider - New Romance fame

 

Thank goodness someone mentioned them!

 

I could kick myself for not snapping up all the 7" singles, etc. of The Insect Surfers that I saw back then. I even had a few that I've sold or traded over the years. Thier stuff is really hard to find now...

 

The Critters - the band from the mid 60's (Mr. Dieingly Sad)
Iron Butterfly
The Silver Beatles then became the Beatles
Scorpions - the rock band from Germany
Buddy Holly & the Crickets

 

Startled Insects.

God they were obscure