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| Bundjalung | English | Category | Dialect | ||
| bagundah | ant (? general) | insect | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| bahbany-bahbany | beetles and cockroaches, some varieties of (Gd) ; cockroaches and beetles, some varieties of (Gd) ; beetle, species of (Wa) | insect | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| bahmgan | ant hill ; ant nest | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| bahny | march-fly ; fly, march- | insect | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| balbang | spider, geometric ; spider (St Andrew's Cross?) | insect | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| bandjilam, bandjalahm | butterfly ; moth ; cockroach | insect | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| bangam, bangawum | snail | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| baramban | scrub tick ; tick, scrub | insect | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| baran-barahn | spider | insect | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| baran-barahn | spider ; cobweb | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| bayahr, barahr | centipede | insect | Gold Coast Tweed, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| bayar-bayahr | centipede | insect | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| bayir-bayir | centipede | insect | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| bihn.gin | beetle | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| bilibirin, biribirim, bilbiriny | cicada ; locust | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| bin.gin-bin.gin | beetle | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| biri-birim | locust | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| biridju | bee, largest species of ; honey from biridju species of bee | insect | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| buhmbilahr | barren ; useless | insect | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| buhnbing | antbed ; termite's nest | insect | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| burbul(?) | soldier ant (gigas) ; ant, soldier | insect | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| dabahy | mature (of chrysalis about to turn into butterfly) | insect | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| dibireh, dibihr | grasshopper | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| dimbul | slow | insect | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| dirahny | jumping ant species | insect | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| dirahy | jumper-ant | insect | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| dirany | jumper ant ; ant, jumper | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| dugal, dugul, duguhl | hornet, large ; wasp, big | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| duguhl, dugal, dugul | wasp, big | insect | All | [more] | |
| dugul | wasp, large species of | insect | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| dulum | louse ; lice ; lousy | insect | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond, Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| dumgahm | cobbera ; worm, teredo ; teredo worm | insect | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| duragal | grub species | insect | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| gabay | bee ; bees ; English bee ; native bee (light coloured or white) ; honey | insect | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond, Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| gabeh | native bee, grey ; honey of native grey bee | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| galgany | fleas | insect | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| gamang | ant, jumper ; jumper ant | insect | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| gambul | blue fly ; fly, blue | insect | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| gamuhm | ant, bulldog ; ant, jumper ; bulldog ant ; jumper ant | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| gehrang | blow fly ; fly, blow | insect | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| gidjiwang | flea | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| gidjur | chrysalis of witchetty grub, greyish coloured ; witchetty grub chrysalis, greyish coloured | insect | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| gihny | generic ant ; small black ant ; ant, small black ; ant, generic | insect | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| gihnyin | mosquito | insect | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| gilgir | black jumping ant ; ant, black jumping ; jumping ant, black | insect | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| giniyan (?) | moth | insect | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| giny-giny | black ant ; ant, black | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| ginygir | green headed ant species ; ant species, green headed | insect | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| ginyin | mosquito | insect | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence, Copmanhurs | [more] | |
| ginyin, ginin | sandfly | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| ginying | mosquitoes ; taboo word | insect | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| gudjabul | bee, native sweet ; native sweet bee | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| gudjabunggal | bee, black | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| gudjalany | ant, little black ; little black ant | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| gudjalany | ant species (We, Gd) | insect | Gold Coast Tweed, Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| gudji | bee, native dark-coloured (Y:Watsn) ; native bee, dark coloured (Y:Watson) ; honey (M) | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| gudjir | native bee (one type) ; bee, native (one type) ; native bee, small ; small native bee ; bee, native (small) | insect | Gold Coast Tweed, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| guginy(?) | ant, black ; black ant | insect | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| gulan, ngulan | point ; tick (insect) | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| gulany | scrub tick ; tick, scrub | insect | Gold Coast Tweed, Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| gumbaw | cobra (teredo) worm | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| gumbu | cobra (teredo) worm ; worm, cobra (teredo) | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| gumuhm | bull-ant ; bull-dog ant ; ant, bull ; ant, bull-dog | insect | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| gumur | grub species | insect | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| gunggul | chrysalis of witchetty grub | insect | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| gunuburan | sugar ant ; ant, sugar | insect | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| gunygur | cockchafer grub | insect | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| guruhng | cricket (generic) | insect | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| jabam | grub, tree boring ; tree boring grub ; grub ; witchety grub | insect | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond, Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| jabum | willow tree grub ; grub, willow tree | insect | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| jahgar | termite ; white ant ; ant, white | insect | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| jalngay | firefly ; fireflies | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| jalngay bahram | firefly ; creeper with small five-petalled flowers | insect | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| jalngay-ngahriyan, jalngay | moth ; butterfly ; firefly ; fireflies ; dancing coloured lights ; coloured lights, dancing | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| jambulang | bee, large species of bee and its honey ; bee (large species of) and its honey ; bees ; honey | insect | Lower Richmond, Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| janyehny | grasshopper | insect | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| jenyehny | grasshopper | insect | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| jilgir | ant, green ; green ant | insect | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| jilil, jiyil | termite | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| jindil | flea | insect | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] |
