List of animals displaying homosexual behavior
This list includes animals for which there is documented evidence of homosexual or transgender behavior of one or more of the following kinds: sex, courtship, affection, pair bonding, or parenting.
Mammals
Birds
Fish
Other vertebrates
Insects and other invertebrates
- Acanthocephalan Worms
- Alfalfa Weevil
- Bean Weevil sp.
- Bedbug and other Bug spp.
- Blister Beetle spp.
- Blowfly
- Box Crab
- Broadwinged Damselfly sp.
- Cabbage (Small) White
- Checkerspot Butterfly
- Clubtail Dragonfly spp.
- Cockroach spp.
- Common Skimmer Dragonfly spp.
- Creeping Water Bug sp.
- Digger Bee
- Dragonfly spp.
- Eastern Giant Ichneumon
- Eucalyptus Longhorned Borer
- Field Cricket sp.
- Fruit Fly spp.
- Glasswing Butterfly
- Grape Berry Moth
- Grape Borer
- Green Lacewing
- Harvest Spider sp.
- Hawaiian Orb-Weaver
- Hen Flea
- House Fly
- Ichneumon Wasp sp.
- Incirrate Octopus spp.
- Japanese Scarab Beetle
- Jumping Spider sp.
- Larch Bud Moth
- Large Milkweed Bug
- Large White
- Long-legged Fly spp.
- Mazarine Blue
- Mediterranean Fruit Fly
- Mexican White
- Midge sp.
- Migratory Locust
- Mite sp.
- Monarch Butterfly
- Narrow-winged Damselfly spp.
- Parsnip Leaf Miner
- Pomace Fly
- Prea
- Queen Butterfly
- Red Ant sp.
- Red Flour Beetle
- Reindeer Warble Fly
- Rosechafer
- Rove Beetle spp.
- Scarab Beetle, Melolonthine
- Screwworm Fly
- Silkworm Moth
- Sociable Weaver
- Southeastern Blueberry Bee
- Southern Green Stink Bug
- Southern Masked Chafer
- Southern One-Year Canegrub
- Spreadwinged Damselfly spp.
- Spruce Budworm Moth
- Stable Fly sp.
- Stag Beetle spp.
- Tsetse Fly
- Water Boatman Bug
- Water Strider spp.
Sources
- Bagemihl, Bruce. Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity. St. Martin's Press, 1999. ISBN 0312192398