In that location are eighty bugs to catch in Beast Crossing: New Horizons, only merely a small handful of them take special conditions to bear witness up, like the emmet and the fly. You can catch most of them flying and crawling about your island, around trees, on flowers, under rocks, and sometimes fifty-fifty pond--in near cases, they'll be out in the open up for you lot to sneak up on with your cyberspace. Merely the flea is one of the almost elusive. If you want to catch a flea, you take to get to know your neighbors.

Currently, the flea is agile in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Since it's April, the flea is a new inflow for players in the Northern Hemisphere, while Southern Hemisphere players have had to deal with its "curse" since launch. If the flea is new on your isle, you'll accept until November to catch one, and then there'due south no rush at all. In the Southern Hemisphere, the flea takes a vacation after May, then yous'll want to chat up your villagers every mean solar day if yous tin so y'all can catch ane before they're gone! Here's how.

How To Catch A Flea

The only way to catch a flea in Animal Crossing: New Horizons is off the head of a flea-infested villager. Talk to and check upwards on your neighbors every twenty-four hour period--you should be doing this every twenty-four hours, anyhow--until one of them complains most feeling itchy. Fifty-fifty before you talk to them, you lot might notice trivial black dots hopping around them.

An itchy villager in New Horizons means they have a flea problem.
An itchy villager in New Horizons ways they have a flea problem.

All yous need to do is pull out your net and striking their head with it. You might demand to adjust the altitude so you don't accidentally pull them into conversation again, but no need to worry even if you do--the fleas aren't going anywhere.

Villagers usually detest being hitting with the internet, merely this fourth dimension they'll give thanks you for "lifting the expletive." And y'all've done it! You've caught a flea.

When To Catch A Flea

Fleas are available to grab all twenty-four hour period, equally long as villagers are out to catch them on, simply they're also seasonal, which means you can only catch them during certain times of the year. It's April right now, so fleas are active in the Northern Hemisphere through Nov and in the Southern Hemisphere through May.

Find the list of months the flea is active in for both hemispheres below.

Northern Hemisphere

  • April, May, June, July, August, September, Oct, Nov

Southern Hemisphere

  • October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May

For a more comprehensive list of seasonal bugs, check out the new fish and bugs in Apr and which critters are going away at the end of the month.

What To Do With A Flea

In one case you catch a flea, it will be registered in your Critterpedia like whatsoever other fish or issues yous tin take hold of in New Horizons.

A flea in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
A flea in Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

From at that place, you can donate it to Blathers at the museum or sell it to Timmy and Tommy at Nook'southward Cranny. You can also sell it to the special visitor Moving picture, who volition buy bugs off of you for 150% their market value.

  • Nook's Cranny cost: lxx bells each
  • Flick toll: 105 bells each

If you don't want to sell whatever extra fleas, placing them as an item generates a unique display particular that'south unlike from the standard tank that other problems displays have. If you have a spare ane, endeavour it out!

You lot're not going to make a fortune off selling fleas--they're mostly merely a fun rare critter. For another rare bug that is worth quite a scrap of bells, check out our guide on how to subcontract tarantulas.

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