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Entomology: the branch of zoology concerned with the study of insects All insect and science related posts are welcome! Founded 2009 · 308.6K members

309.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 7.5K upvotes, which works out to 24 per 1,000 members.

24peak upvotes per 1,000 members
309.9Kmembers
7.5Kbest post
800most comments
553posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

39% 32% 19%
Gallery 39% Image 32% Video 19% Link 6% Text 3% Question 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

ID Request 114 Insect Appreciation 86 Discussion 29 Pet/Insect Keeping 22 Meme 7 Specimen prep 6 Pest Control 2 News/Article/Journal 2 Taxidermy Kitbash 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

a regular at work gifted me a dead beetle

↑ 7.5K 💬 138 gallery 2024

What are the "bees" in this tiktok actually doing?

↑ 6.8K 💬 253 video 2023

A collection of the various surreal insect paintings I've created

↑ 6K 💬 260 gallery 2026

a moth and his scorpion steed

↑ 5.7K 💬 150 video 2025

Baby Face has passed away

↑ 5.7K 💬 178 gallery 2026

Who is this stinky moth? Ritz for scale

↑ 5.5K 💬 107 gallery 2025

Was taking a walk when I found a male carpenter bee...with deformed wings and unable to fly. Could this be from pesticides? And should I keep him sin…

↑ 5.2K 💬 224 gallery 2023

Crochet hornworm I made next to a real one

↑ 5.1K 💬 101 image 2025

A Love Comic to my favorite insect

↑ 5.1K 💬 64 image 2026

Any way to help this guy/gal?

↑ 5K 💬 382 image 2023

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Entomology, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/Entomology?
r/Entomology describes itself this way: Entomology: the branch of zoology concerned with the study of insects All insect and science related posts are welcome. It was founded in 2009 and has 308.6K members.
How many members does r/Entomology have?
r/Entomology has about 309.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 553 of its posts; the biggest reached 7.5K upvotes, which is 24 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Entomology?
"a regular at work gifted me a dead beetle" reached 7.5K upvotes and 138 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Entomology.
What subreddits are similar to r/Entomology?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/Entomology?
Of the posts we hold, 39% are gallery posts and 32% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Entomology?
Across 553 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 00:00 UTC (3.3K avg upvotes), Friday at 16:00 UTC (3.2K avg upvotes), Friday at 13:00 UTC (3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Entomology?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Entomology has 4.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 30 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Entomology, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.