Insect tattoo ideas

421 photos and flash · 23% Fine line, 20% Realism · Forearm most common

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Black and grey dotwork drawing of a stag beetle with a skull and two faces overlaid on its body, set within a circle and dashed triangles.
Stag beetle with skull and faces design
Black and grey full sleeve tattoo on an upper arm and shoulder, showing a cicada above mandala and lace-like geometric patterns with flowers, shown in four panels.
Cicada and mandala full sleeve
Black and grey dotwork moth tattoo with fine radiating lines on the upper back, below dark hair.
Moth with geometric lines on upper back
Black and grey dotwork moth inside a geometric diamond outline tattooed on the outer thigh.
Moth inside a geometric diamond on a thigh
Black and grey realism tattoo of a horned beetle with spread wings inside a fine line diamond frame on the forearm.
Horned beetle in a geometric frame on a forearm
Geometric beetle drawing with crystal shapes and dotwork shading, inked on a tan leather panel.
Geometric beetle design on leather
Black ink drawing of an ornately patterned insect with lace-like wings inside a circular mandala border, a design suited to fine line tattooing.
Ornate insect inside a circle frame
Black ink line drawing of a detailed moth with wings spread, above a vertical stack of geometric solids and a small formula, a flash design with no body placement shown.
Moth above stacked geometric solids
Solid black blackwork design of a symmetrical insect-like motif built from hexagons and curling arms, shown as a drawing with no body placement.
Symmetrical hexagon and curl design
Black ink dotwork drawing of a symmetrical moth with spread wings, overlaid on interlocking triangles, with a small symbol below, shown on paper as a tattoo design.
Moth with geometric triangles design
Pencil sketch of a bee in flight above a faint geometric pattern of overlapping circles and hexagons, drawn as a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Bee sketch over geometric circles
Black and grey dragonfly tattoo with mandala-patterned wings and dotted circles, placed on the forearm.
Dragonfly with mandala wings on a forearm
Black ink drawing of an ornate moth design with dotted patterns and dangling beaded chains on the wings, shown as a flash sketch with no placement on the body.
Ornamental moth design in black ink
Black and grey geometric full sleeve tattoo on an arm, featuring a large cicada above a mandala with dotwork shading and floral detail.
Cicada and mandala full sleeve
Black dotwork and geometric dragonfly tattoo with stippled wings and a long thin body on the upper arm of a woman in a knit cardigan.
Geometric dragonfly on an upper arm
Gold and black line drawing of a bee with honeycomb and floral patterns across its wings, head and abdomen, shown as a tattoo design with no body part visible.
Honeycomb and floral bee design
Black line drawing of a symmetrical beetle with ornamental detail and small star accents, shown as a tattoo design on a plain grey background with no body part visible.
Symmetrical beetle line drawing with stars
Black and grey tattoo on a lower leg showing an eye inside a triangle with an ornate frame, a beetle below, and fine geometric construction lines.
Eye and beetle within geometric lines on a calf
Fine line geometric butterfly tattoo in black ink across the upper back, with faceted wings built from straight lines.
Geometric butterfly on the upper back
Black ink line drawing of a cicada at the centre of a geometric star and circle, surrounded by five flowers, a tattoo design with no body placement shown.
Cicada and flowers in a geometric circle
Black line drawing of a symmetrical spider with a geometric patterned abdomen, shown as a flash design with no body placement.
Spider line drawing with geometric abdomen
Black and grey dotwork moth tattoo with crystal-like geometric wings on a person's upper back near the shoulder blade.
Geometric moth on a shoulder blade
Two matching black and grey tattoos on the calves, each with a moth above a geometric crystal shape inside dotted diamond outlines, in a dotwork and geometric style.
Matching moth and geometric calf tattoos
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a detailed bee inside a dotted diamond outline with a small triangle above, on a shoulder.
Bee within a dotted diamond on a shoulder
Black and grey moth inside a fine line geometric diamond tattoo on the upper thigh.
Moth in a geometric diamond on thigh
Black and grey dotwork and fine line tattoo of a radial dragonfly mandala with three dragonflies above it, on a limb.
Dragonfly mandala with three dragonflies
Black and grey dotwork tattoo of a detailed bee inside a mandala-style circle on the inner forearm.
Bee within a dotwork mandala on a forearm
Black and grey stag beetle tattoo with dotwork shading and fine linework on the inner forearm.
Stag beetle on an inner forearm
Black line drawing of an ornate dragonfly with patterned wings and a segmented body, shown as a tattoo flash design on a white background.
Ornamental dragonfly line drawing
Black ink line drawing of a geometric bee with angular, hatched wings and body, shown on a white background.
Geometric bee line drawing
Black and grey dragonfly tattoo framed by ornate scrollwork and dotwork geometric patterns across the neck, shoulders and chest.
Dragonfly and scrollwork across neck and chest
Dotwork drawing of a moth with spread wings set within overlapping outline triangles, shown as a tattoo design on paper.
Moth within overlapping geometric triangles
Black and grey geometric dragonfly tattoo with faceted wings on the side of a person's ribs.
Geometric dragonfly on the ribs
Colourful geometric bee tattoo with faceted purple wings, set within a black dotwork circle on the outer thigh.
Geometric bee in a dotwork circle on a thigh
Black and grey tattoo of a praying mantis between quartz crystals and raspberry branches across the chest and upper abdomen.
Praying mantis, crystals and raspberries on torso
Black and grey dotwork chest tattoo of a mandala with a winged insect, crescent moons and a sun, centred on the upper chest.
Dotwork mandala and winged insect on chest
Black geometric butterfly tattoo made of straight fine lines on the upper arm of a person wearing a white vest top.
Geometric butterfly on upper arm
Black and grey engraving-style tattoo on a back, showing a bee, a bird skull, carnations, a heart and berry branches inside dotted geometric lines.
Bee, skull and carnations on a back
Black ink flash drawing of a wasp above peony and lily blooms, overlaid with a dotted geometric wireframe, shown as a tattoo design.
Wasp and peonies within a geometric frame
Black line drawing of a butterfly made of geometric triangular facets, shown as a framed print on white, with no body placement.
Geometric butterfly line drawing
Fine line geometric dragonfly tattoo in black ink on the inner upper arm of a person wearing a white top.
Geometric dragonfly on the inner upper arm
Black and grey engraving-style tattoo of a bat and a firefly with dotted arcs and dashed lines on a forearm.
Bat and firefly with dotted geometry on a forearm
Vertical strip of five black line-art flash designs on cream, including a moth with BERN CITY text, a lobster, a beetle and two animal faces, in a monoline geometric style.
Five line-art creature flash designs
Four black line drawings of stylised beetles stacked vertically on a cream background, in a fine line and geometric flash style with dot and star accents.
Four stylised beetles in black line