Animal Crossing New Horizons September Bugs and Fish Guide

Are you struggling to catch this month’s bugs, fish, and deep-sea creatures? Fear no longer dear reader with our Animal Crossing New Horizons: September Bugs and Fish Guide you’ll be catching so many of the critters that Blathers is going to need a vacation!

Chris Hall 2020-09-03

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Its September, which in our world as in Animal Crossing: New Horizons means new a new range of Bugs, Fish, and Deep Sea creatures have joined the game with some leaving. So with the nights drawing in, the weather getting colder, or if you are in the Southern Hemisphere the days starting to get longer and the days sunnier its time to crack open our Animal Crossing New Horizons September Bugs and Fish Guide to give you all the info you’ll need to catch ’em all!

In our guide you’ll find a list of the all critters that will be joining us this month in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere and which ones will be leaving us at the end of the month! You will also find their locations, the time of day they can be caught, their value in Bells, as well as any additional information you may need. Information that is absent in Nintendo’s own video but they are being oddly quite as of late so we understand why.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Exploring September - Nintendo Switch

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So whilst we all watch the official Twitter page like a hawk for the next seasonal update, lets pick up our nets, fishing rods and swimsuits and get that museum (or our bank account) filled!

Table of Contents

1) NORTHERN HEMISPHERE:

1.1) BUGS ARRIVING THIS MONTH:

1.2) BUGS LEAVING AFTER THIS MONTH:

1.3) FISH ARRIVING THIS MONTH:

1.4) FISH LEAVING AFTER THIS MONTH:

1.5) DEEP-SEA CREATURES ARRIVING THIS MONTH:

1.6) DEEP-SEA CREATURES LEAVING AFTER THIS MONTH:

2) SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE:

2.1) BUGS ARRIVING THIS MONTH:

2.2) BUGS LEAVING AFTER THIS MONTH:

2.3) FISH ARRIVING THIS MONTH:

2.4) FISH LEAVING AFTER THIS MONTH:

2.5) DEEP-SEA CREATURES ARRIVING THIS MONTH:

2.6) DEEP-SEA CREATURES LEAVING AFTER THIS MONTH:

NORTHERN HEMISPHERE:

BUGS ARRIVING THIS MONTH:

	Location	Time of Day	Value
Bell Cricket	On the Ground	5pm – 8pm	430
Centipede	Under Rocks	4pm 11pm	300
Common Butterfly	Flying	4am -7pm	160
Cricket	On the Ground	5pm – 8pm	130
Monarch Butterfly	Flying	4am -5pm	140
Pill Bug	Under Rocks	11pm -4pm	250
Red Dragon Fly	Flying	8am – 7pm	180
Violin Beetle	On Tree Stumps	All Day	450
Yellow Butterfly	Flying	4am – 7pm	160

Hail to the King baby!

BUGS LEAVING AFTER THIS MONTH:

	Location	Time of Day	Value
Agrias Butterfly	Flying	8am – 5pm	3000
Atlas Month	On Trees	7pm – 4am	3000
Diving Beetle	On Fresh Water	8am – 7pm	800
Earth-boring dung beetle	On the Ground	All Day	300
Emperor Butterfly	Flying	5pm – 8pm	4000
Giant water bug	On Fresh Water	7pm – 8am	2000
Goliath beetle	On Palm Trees	5pm – 8am	8000
Grasshopper	On the Ground	8am – 5pm	160
Madagascan Sunset Moth	Flying	8am – 4pm	2500
Mosquito	Flying	5pm – 4am	130
Pondskater	On Fresh Water	8am – 7pm	130
Queen Alexandra’s birdwing	Flying	8am – 4pm	4000
Rainbow stag	On Trees	7pm – 8am	6000
Rajah Brooke’s birdwing	Flying	8am – 5pm	2500
Rosalila batesi beetle	On Tree Stumps	All Day	3000

You should probably wash your hands after holding this one

As you can see that is a lot of high value bugs that’ll be fluttering away this month including the elusive Atlas Moth, thankfully you should have plenty of time to catch one before the end of the month. Well, so long as you don’t keep scaring them off as I have done.

FISH ARRIVING THIS MONTH:

	Location	Time of Day	Shadow Size	Value
Char	Clifftop River Ponds	4pm – 9am	Medium	3800
Cherry Salmon	Clifftop River Ponds	4pm – 9am	Medium	1000
Golden Trout	Clifftop River	4pm – 9am	Medium	15000
King Salmon	River Mouth	All Day	Very Large	1800
Mitten Crab	River	4pm – 9am	Small	2000
Pike	River	All Day	Very Large	1800
Salmon	River Mouth	All Day	Large	700
Sturgeon	River Mouth	All Day	Huge	10000

Hail to the king b-oh wait…

FISH LEAVING AFTER THIS MONTH:

	Location	Time of Day	Shadow Size	Value
Arapaima	River	4pm – 9am	Huge	10000
Arowana	River	4pm – 9am	Medium-Large	10000
Blue marlin	Pier	All Day	Huge	10000
Butterfly fish	Sea	All Day	Small	1000
Clown fish	Sea	All Day	Tiny	650
Crawfish	Pond	All Day	Small	200
Dorado	River	4am – 9pm	Large	15000
Gar	Pond	4pm – 9am	Huge	6000
Great white shark	Sea	4pm – 9am	Huge with fin	15000
Hammerhead shark	Sea	4pm – 9am	Huge with fin	8000
King salmon	River (mouth)	All Day	Huge	1800
Nibble Fish	River	4am – 9pm	Tiny	1500
Ocean sunfish	Sea	4am – 9pm	Huge with fin	4000
Piranah	River	9am – 4pm + 9pm – 4am	Small	2500
Puffer Fish	Sea	All Day	Medium-Small	250
Saddled Bichhir	River	4pm – 9am	Medium-Large	4000
Salmon	River (Mouth)	All Day	MediumeLarge	700
Saw Shark	Sea	4pm – 9am	Huge with fin	12000
Soft-shelled Turtle	River	4pm – 9am	Medium-Large	3750
Suckerfish	Sea	All Day	Medium with Fin	1500
Surgeonfish	Sea	All Day	Small	1000
Sweetfish	River	All Day	Medium-Small	900
Whale shark	Sea	All Day	Huge with fin	13000

The salmon is one of many fish who are exclusive to this month

As you can see there is a lot of fish leaving this month so if you haven’t caught them all you are in for a busy month!

DEEP-SEA CREATURES ARRIVING THIS MONTH:

	Movement Pattern	Time of Day	Shadow Size	Value
Chambered Nautilus	Slow	4pm – 9am	Large	1800
Oyster	Moderate, short lunges	All Day	Small	2000
Sweet shrimp	Slow	4pm – 9am	Small	1400
Turbran shell	Slow	All Day	Small	1000
Umbrella Octopus	Quick, Short lunges	All Day	Small	6000

The world’s your oyster!

DEEP-SEA CREATURES LEAVING AFTER THIS MONTH:

	Movement Pattern	Time of Day	Shadow Size	Value
Flatworm	Slow	4pm – 9am	Tiny	700
Gigas giant clam	Quick, Short lunges	All Day	Large	15000
Horseshoe crab	Quick, Short lunges	9pm – 4 am	Medium	2500
Moon Jellyfish	Slow, consistent movement	All Day	Small	600
Sea grapes	Stationary	All Day	Small	900
Sea Urchin	Slow, consistent movement	All Day	Small	1700
State pencil urchin	Medium, consistent movement	4pm – 9am	Medium	2000
Tiger Prawn	Moderate, consistent movement	4pm – 9am	Large	3000

Are you jelly(fish)?

And so there is your list for all the critters arriving and leaving in the Northern Hemisphere. Meanwhile for our friends in the south Spring has sprung so that means a whole new collection of bugs, fish and deep-sea creatures to gather for fun and profit! And surprisingly this is the shortest part of our Animal Crossing New Horizons September Bugs and Fish Guide given how little is arriving or leaving.

SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE:

BUGS ARRIVING THIS MONTH:

	Location	Time of day	Value
Honeybee	Flying	8am – 5pm	200
Ladybug	On flowers	8am – 5pm	200
Man-faced stink bug	On flowers	7pm – 8am	1000
Mantis	On flowers	8am – 5pm	430
Orchid mantis	On White flowers	8am – 5pm	2400
Peacock butterfly	Flying near hybrid flowers	4am – 7pm	2500
Stinkbug	On flowers	All day	120
Tiger Butterfly	Flying	4am – 7pm	240
Yellow Butterfly	Flying	4am – 7pm	160

Roar!

BUGS LEAVING AFTER THIS MONTH:

	Location	Time of day	Value
Emperor Butterfly	Flying	5pm – 8am	4000

It is a fairly quiet month as far as bugs arriving and leaving this month is concerned in the Southern Hemisphere. Thankfully that means plenty of time to try and corner the Stalk Market and enjoy all the new Northern Hemisphere content that’ll feel out of place where you are that’ll no doubt be releasing soon.

FISH ARRIVING THIS MONTH:

	Location	Time of Day	Shadow Size	Value
Barred Knifejaw	Sea	All Day	Medium-small	5000
Char	Clifftop River Ponds	4pm – 9am	Medium-small	3800
Cherry Salmon	Clifftop River Ponds	4pm – 9am	Medium-small	1000
Golden Trout	Clifftop River	4pm – 9am	Medium-small	15000
Loach	River	All Day	Small	400
Tadpole	Pond	All Day	Tiny	100

Most of the new fish this month are rare so have patience!

FISH LEAVING AFTER THIS MONTH:

	Location	Time of Day	Shadow Size	Value
Bitterling	River	All Day	Tiny	900
Yellow perch	River	All Day	Medium-small	300
Stringfish	Clifftop River	4pm – 9am	Large	15000
Sturgeon	River Mouth	All Day	Huge	10000
Sea Butterfly	Sea	All Day	Tiny	1000
Football fish	Sea	4pm – 9am	Medium-Large	2500

Much like with the bugs this month should be a fairly quiet one for Southern Hemisphere players, but with such elusive fish as the Stringfish and the Golden Trout to catch I am certain you will have your handful this month!

DEEP-SEA CREATURES ARRIVING THIS MONTH:

	Movement Pattern	Time of Day	Shadow Size	Value
Chambered Nautilus	Slow	4pm – 9am	Medium	1800
Firefly Squid	Slow	9pm – 4am	Tiny	1400
Spider Crab	Quick	All Day	Huge	12000
Turban shell	Slow	All Day	Small	1000
Umbrella Octopus	Quick, short lunges	All Day	Medium	6000

And people think my jokes are bad!

DEEP-SEA CREATURES LEAVING AFTER THIS MONTH:

	Movement Pattern	Time of Day	Shadow Size	Value
Red king crab	Quick	All Day	Large	8000

And so there we have it! All the catchable creatures arriving and leaving in both the Northern and Southern Hemisphere. Whilst it is a quieter month for the south that does mean they’ll still have plenty of time to catch them all and possibly head north to catch some more! Or if you could always check out our review on the game and see how the game has evolved over the past few months.

Have you any tips to help your fellow players catch some of these critters? Let us know in the comments below and be sure to share our Animal Crossing New Horizons September Bugs and Fish Guide with your friends!

Chris Hall

Writer and theatre director Chris is a lover of all things indie. Armed with a trusty Master’s Degree and over a decade of film and videogame reviewing expertise you can be sure they can get the job done so that they can ask the big questions in life, like “When is Metroid coming out on the N64?”.