r/insects. A subreddit all about insects and other bugs. ID requests, artwork, macro-photography, discussion, and more! **ALL ID requests require a geographic location!** Founded 2009 · 286.8K members
287.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached
19.7K upvotes, which works out to
69 per 1,000 members.
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.
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Gallery 43%Image 31%Video 24%Text 1%Question 1%
The topics it labels
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/insects?
r/insects ("r/insects") describes itself this way: A subreddit all about insects and other bugs. ID requests, artwork, macro-photography, discussion, and more! **ALL ID requests require a geographic location!**. It was founded in 2009 and has 286.8K members.
How many members does r/insects have?
r/insects has about 287.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.2K of its posts; the biggest reached 19.7K upvotes, which is 69 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/insects?
"Found this gem with my buddy while hiking in my home country" reached 19.7K upvotes and 684 comments in 2023, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/insects.
What subreddits are similar to r/insects?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers, r/Louisiana.
What kind of posts do best on r/insects?
Of the posts we hold, 43% are gallery posts and 31% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/insects?
Across 1.2K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 04:00 UTC (3.5K avg upvotes), Friday at 10:00 UTC (3.2K avg upvotes), Sunday at 00:00 UTC (2.8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. 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/insects?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/insects has 4.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 90 posts from it in the last 30 days.
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ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/insects, 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.