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Some of these I'm proud of and some of them are meh.

- Haruno Sakura - Pyrrharctia isabella - While they're still in their larval state, they're sweet little caterpillars which seem to have an inherent ability to self-medicate (seriously, look it up; they're insects that take medicine for parasites). Although they grow up into moths, they're most widely known in their larval stage; Shino thinks of Sakura in that sort of light, as though she's not yet broken out of her shell.

- Houzuki Suigetsu - Nepa cinerea - These are decently sized bugs with an interesting structure and what look like giant mandibles of doom. It's at least in part that Shino doesn't particularly know what to make of water scorpions, but he has a weird sort of respect for them; he also has a quiet level of comfort with the idea that Suigetsu is also in the biology department.

- Hyuuga Hinata - Oryctolagus cuniculus Harmonia axyridis - These are cute little guys who like to huddle up in winter and bask in the warmth of the sunshine during the spring. They're very small but very beautiful; Shino thinks that suits Hinata very well, as he doesn't get the impression she's really aware of how lovely she is.

- Karin - Abedus indentatus - They are giant freakin' water bugs. It's really sort of a personal thing--Shino has never been sure what to make of water bugs, and he most definitely does not know what to make of Karin. It seems impossible that someone who works in the same library as he does can have nails like that.

- Nara Shikamaru - Megarhyssa macrurus - They're solitary creatures, as well as the sort of insects which can sit still on a log and simply vanish to the human eye. They are also by nature antagonistic to bees; from what Shino's seen of it, this makes sense for Shikamaru's weird relationship with Ino (see below).

- Tenten - Nephila clavata - These are orb weavers, a difficult form of web to catch prey with. They tend to be delicate and rather pretty, and fairly adaptive to extreme circumstances; Shino is fairly certain Tenten could figure out how to make a web in outer space if she had to.

- Uzumaki Naruto - Amblytelinae amblytelus - They're ground beetles, so they're typically considered to be beneficial to humans but can have a devastating effect on communities of invertebrates. These particular guys are pretty flashy for little ground beetles; Shino thinks the loud colours correspond with Naruto's personality well.

- Yamanaka Ino - Apis mellifera - They're highly social creatures, very flashy (particularly the queens), and often bred to be reliant on human contact. They also defy the odds of aetodynamics by beating their wings 13,800 beats/minute; Shino's fairly certain that's Ino's oral WPM.