chey-chey-es : mosquito
choh-keek : gnat ("no see 'ems")
choh-pos : house fly
chorek'week 'ue-'werrp (variant: chorek'-week nee 'werrp) : moth (bad); moth's with red eyes that you see at night
*"messenger from hell"
chkee'yo' (variant: ch'eee-yo', ter-werr,) : cricket (black), locust
*story with Coyote (record James if he's comfortable)
wo'-key-gep : cricket
*"the one who sings acorns to sleep" -- story?
heyr-puech : ant
*stories
pue'nos (variant: hue-pue-pos, hoh-po-pos) : stinkbug
k'eyr-o-sey-gon (variant: kerhl-kerh sey-gon) : scorpion
ker-ker-ner-weech (variant: pue-lews, pue'lews) : daddy long legs
kuech-kuech : worm for fishing bait
moh-koh : lice (bug)
mo'leks (variant: mo'lekws) : clothes moth
noh-pe-t'ekws: salmon bug
*used to refer to newcomers at the Key-wet Jump Dance
*strangers that you don't know their intentions
no-so-nos : tick
pa'aahl 'ue-'werrp' (variant: pa'aahl 'werrp') : dragonfly
saa'a-goch : seaweed bug
sa'-ahl 'ue-'werrp' : miller moth (bad one)
sker-weech : centipede
*woman who makes fine designs in basketry--story?
tey-gey' : flea
toh-teyr' : grasshopper
toh-to-nos : beetle
ter-perkws : acorn worm or bug hole in an acorn shell
ter-wer-mers : yellowjacket
ter-wer-mers 'wo-'o'l : beehive ("bee's house")
werch-peet : potato bug larva (Jerusalem cricket)
*Yurok character -- story? look in Yurok myths
werr : body louse
*werr-ger' body lice
'weych-ken : nits, mites
*wech
'wes : spider
'wes 'wer-ner' : spider web (spider's trap)
'werrp' : butterfly
'yekwhl : maggot