虫

beetles; coleopterans; coleoptera

From 'Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio', 1740

mythical spirit residing in a person's body that generates a desire to drink (also said to turn water into alcohol)

concave land hermit crab (Coenobita cavipes)

nematodes

leaf insect (esp. species Phyllium pulchrifolium)

maize weevil (Sitophilus zeamais)

かみきりむし is a jukujikun reading of 天牛

long-horned beetle; longicorn; beetle of the cerambycidae family

longhorn beetle grub

chigger; jigger; harvest mite (any mite of family Trombiculidae)

Dalmatian chrysanthemum (Tanacetum cinerariifolium); Dalmatian pyrethrum; Dalmatian pellitory

Trichinella spiralis; pork worm

gypsy rose (Scabiosa japonica); gipsy rose; scabiosa

rhizocephala (parasitic barnacles)

pupa; chrysalis

New World hookworm (Necator americanus)

Pheropsophus jessoensis (species of bombardier beetle)

insecticide; bug repellent

disease-carrying insect

locust swarming; locust swarm; (swarming) locusts

In Shinshu

dobsonfly or stonefly larva

Sparganum proliferum (species of worm)

Medicine

cysticercosis

measles (in cattle, etc.)

light trap; electric insect killer; bug zapper

psocid (any insect of order Psocoptera, which includes booklice)