What is a group of insects called?

Collective Noun for Insects. The collective noun for insects is the word you would use to describe a group of insects.

We have identified the following word(s) that you could call a group of insects:

flight
horde
nest
plague
rabble
swarm

Used in a sentence, you could say "Look at the flight of insects", where "flight" is the collective noun that means group.

As you can see, you simply substitute the word "group" with one of the collective nouns on our list above when describing a group of insects.

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