Krillion prompt · November 8, 2026
Name an animal that stings
Krillion accepted 6,682 answers for this prompt in Dive #116. They’re all below, starting at the trench floor with the gem and rising to the Plankton everyone thinks of first.
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Notes on this prompt
- With 6,682 accepted answers, this prompt is about 9.4 times wider than a typical Krillion prompt (about 710).
- 6,466 answers (97%) are Deep Cuts and 201 are Rare, while 6 sit at Plankton.
Quick picks
The shortest Rare or deeper answers, easy to type before the timer runs out.
Coral +60 Hydra +60 Weever +60
Also accepted elsewhere
The same answer counted for a different prompt in the archive.
Every accepted answer
One in a Krillion
The gem picked for each prompt. Trench floor.
- Wallace's Giant Bee
World's largest bee, found alive in 2019 after 38 years unseen.
Deep Cut
Real obscurity. This is where the list gets long.
- Abbas Cone
- Abbott's Cone
- Abbreviated cone
- Aberrant Cellophane Bee
- Abert's thread-waisted wasp
- Abrolhos Cone
- Abrupt Digger Bee
- Abrupt Leather-Coral
- Abundantly Punctured Sweat Bee
- Acacia ant
- Acan coral
- Accepted Cuckoo Nomad Bee
- Achilles' scorpion
- Acorn ants
- Acorn cone
- Acorn cup coral
- Acrobat ant
- Acropora coral
- Active bumble bee
- Actor Cloak-and-dagger Bee
- Adam's scorpionfish
- Adamantine sea pen
- Addo burrowing scorpion
- Adelaide Broad-tongue
- Adhesive anemone
- Admirable Sweat Bee
- Admiral cone
- Adorned Austral-Resin bee
- Aenictus army ants
- Aerial yellowjacket
- Aestival Bare-Miner
- African beewolf
- African big-headed ant
- African black-tailed scorpion
- African Carder Bee
- African chimaera
- African Cone
- African cricket-hunter wasp
- African Cuckoo Bee
- African Euproctis
- African fat-tailed scorpion
- African large-spotted scorpionfish
- African lionfish
- African pillow coral
- African Resin Bee
- African silk moth caterpillar
- African speckled scorpionfish
- African spotted scorpionfish
- African stink ant
- African thief ant
- African whitespotted rabbitfish
- Agassiz’s coral
- Agassiz's deep-sea soft coral
- Agassiz's gilded coral
- Agate cone
- Aggregating anemone
- Aggregating jelly
- Agile Long-horned Bee
- Agile Masked Bee
- Agnate Pitted-Resin bee
- Ainslie's Cellophane-Cuckoo
- Aiptasia
- Air fern
- Aka coral
- Alabama acorn ant
- Alabaster Cone
- Alaska stony coral
- Alaska tree coral
- Alaska yellowjacket
- Alaskan anemone
- Alaskan furrowed ant
- Alastor wasp
- Alayo’s digger-cuckoo bee
- Alcock's scorpionfish
- Aldrich's cuckoo nomad bee
- Aldworth mining bee
- Alfalfa leaf-cutter bee
- Alfalfa leafcutter bee
- Alfken's miniature mining bee
- Algae hydroid
- Algoa cone
- Algodones elegant sand wasp
- Algodones Euparagia Wasp
- Algodones sand wasp
- Alin's Cellophane Bee
- Alkali bee
- All-black Dark Bee
- All-blue Shortface
- All-dark Miner
- All-pale perdita
- Allegheny Mining Bee
- Alleyn's Leioproctus
- Alligatorback scorpion
- Aloe Large Carpenter Bee
- Alphabet cone
- Alpine bumblebee
- Alpine jack jumper ant
- Alpine paper wasp
- Alpine Sweat Bee
- Alternate Cuckoo Leafcutter Bee
- Alumroot Cellophane Bee
- Alveopora coral
- Amadis cone
- Amakusa jellyfish
- Amanda's auger
- Amanda's freshwater stingray
- Amatola creeping scorpion
- Amazonian black scorpion
- Amazonian Bumble Bee
- Ambassador cone
- Amber marbled cone
- Ambiguous Miner
- Ambon scorpionfish
- Amecameca Nomad Bee
- American black coral
- American brackish water medusa
- American Cellophane Bee
- American Cellophane-cuckoo Bee
- American cownose ray
- American furrowed ant
- American mite-eating ant
- American Potter Wasp
- American round stingray
- American sand wasp
- American tube-dwelling anemone
- American zoanthid
- Amiculiform Masked Bee
- Amphiurgus cone
- Anacropora
- Anastasia's big-headed ant
- Anatolian honey bee
- Ancient Bumble Bee
- Andaman cone
- Andaman shortnose chimaera
- Andean Black Longhorn
- Andean Gardener Bumble Bee
- Andean Red Bumble Bee
- Andover lionfish
- Andre's acorn ant
- Andre's harvester ant
- Andrenoid Yellow-faced Bee
- Andres's sea anemone
- Andrews' Cellophane Bee
- Andros Island Paper Wasp
- Andros small wood-scorpion
- Anemone Cone
- Anemone nudibranch
- Anemone sea slug
- Angas's Cone
- Angel bee
- Angeles Striped Sweat Bee
- Angle-eyed bifurcated ant
- Angle-faced Metallic-Sweat Bee
- Angle-jawed Metallic-Sweat Bee
- Angled jellyfish
- Anglespot River Stingray
- Angola Rockfish
- Angophora Reed Bee
- Angular Monkey
- Angular sea whip
- Angulate lonely ant
- Anjuna Anemone
- Annandale's Stingray
- Annulate Masked Bee
- Annulate Nomad
- Annulate stickhydroid
- Annulate sticky hydroid
- Anochetus trap-jaw ants
- Anomalous Dialictus
- Anomalous Metallic Sweat Bee
- Anomalous Yellow-faced Bee
- Antarctic jellyfish
- Antarctic Sea Anemone
- Antennal-waving wasp
- Antennata lionfish
- Antennate Macronomia
- Anthricinan yellow-faced bee
- Antilope mason wasp
- Antioch Andrenid Bee
- Antioch Dunes Halcitid Bee
- Antioch multilid wasp
- Antioch Potter Wasp
- Antioch sphecid wasp
- Antipodes Callomelitta
- Antler coral
- Anza desert harvester ant
- Anza-Borrego hairy scorpion
- Apache Andrena
- Apache Paper Wasp
- Apache Plume Fairy Bee
- Apache twig ant
- Aphid wasp
- Apical Leafcutter Bee
- Apiform Morning glory-Digger
- Appalachian Cuckoo Bumble Bee
- Appalachian Metallic-Sweat Bee
- Appendiculate Carpenter Bee
- Apple bumblebee
- Aquarium medusa
- Arabian Banded Whipray
- Arabian black deathstalker
- Arabian fat-tailed scorpion
- Arabian honey bee
- Arabian Mud Wasp
- Arabian paper wasp
- Arabic Whipray
- Arboreal bicolored ant
- Arboreal sneaking ant
- Arcas auger
- Arched Cone
- Arctic black coral
- Arctic brooding anemone
- Arctic club coral
- Arctic moon jellyfish
- Arctic sea anemone
- Arctic soft coral
- Arctic Woolly Bear Moth
- Arctic Yellowjacket
- Argentine harvester ant
- Argentinean Sea Anemone
- Arizona Ceratina
- Arizona Mexalictus
- Arizona mustache ant
- Arizona Paper Wasp
- Arizona Pebble Bee
- Armadillo ant
- Armed aeolid
- Armed anemone
- Armed hermaphroditic anemone
- Armed nomad bee
- Armenian bumble bee
- Armenian honey bee
- Armored Resin bee
- Armoured sea fan coral
- Armoured sea pen
- Army ant
- Armyworm parasitoid wasp
- Arnold's stony coral
- Arrowbreasted scorpion
- Artichoke coral
- Articulated Nomad
- Artistic Wasp
- Aru carpenter bee
- Ascher's Sweat Bee
- Ashmead's acrobat ant
- Ashmead's collared ant
- Ashmead's Cuckoo Carder Bee
- Ashy furrow bee
- Ashy mining bee
- Asian blue forest scorpion
- Asian bush scorpion
- Asian chilli-tail bee
- Asian forest scorpion
- Asian marauder ant
- Asian moon jellyfish
- Asian needle ant
- Asian Paper Wasp
- Asian Shaggy Digger Bee
- Asian Small-Woolcarder
- Asian Spongy Moth
- Assassin caterpillar
- Assimilated Masked Bee
- Aster Cellophane Bee
- Aster Mining Bee
- Astreopora
- Atamisqui carpenter bee
- Athabasca Sweat Bee
- Athenarian burrowing anemone
- Athletic Orchid Bee
- Atkinson's acrobat ant
- Atlantic beaded anemone
- Atlantic black coral
- Atlantic Box Jelly
- Atlantic chimaera
- Atlantic Cuckoo Sweat Bee
- Atlantic Encrusting Zoanthid
- Atlantic knife-nose chimaera
- Atlantic mushroom coral
- Atlantic sea nettle
- Atlantic stingray
- Atlantic tree coral
- Atlas mammoth wasp
- Atolla jellyfish
- Attenborough's Cellophane-cuckoo Bee
- Atwood's Dialictus
- Atwood's Sweat Bee
- Auburn Flower-loving Digger Bee
- Aureus Cone
- Auriferous Green Sweat Bee
- Aurora anemone
- Aurora rockfish
- Austere sweat bee
- Austin's cone
- Austral Cone
- Australian butterfly ray
- Australian cownose ray
- Australian eagle ray
- Australian ghost shark
- Australian jumper ant
- Australian Mellitidia
- Australian no-line scorpionfish
- Australian Nomad Bee
- Australian Potter Wasp
- Australian rainforest scorpion
- Australian red bull ant
- Australian sawcheek scorpionfish
- Australian Small Carpenter Bee
- Australian spotted jellyfish
- Australian Whipray
- Australogyra coral
- Autumn Cuckoo Sweat Bee
- Autumnal Cellophane-Cuckoo
- Autumnal Nomad Bee
- Avci's small wood-scorpion
- Awesome Sweat Bee
- Axelrod's Cone
- Azalea Mining Bee
- Aztec Augochlora
- Aztec Cellophane Bee
- Aztec Cuckoo-Orchid bee
- Aztec Honey Wasp
- Aztec mud-dauber wasp
- Aztec Rotund-Resin Bee
- Baby bull ant
- Babylonian auger
- Backwater butterfly ray
- Baer's Bumble Bee
- Baer's cone
- Bag-shelter moth caterpillar
- Bahama cone
- Bahama Leaf-cutter Bee
- Bahamas ghost shark
- Bahamian Paper Wasp
- Bahia brain coral
- Bahia Lightbulb Anemone
- Bairstow's Cone
- Baja California bark scorpion
- Baja Squash Bee
- Baja Striped-Sweat bee
- Baker's Phacelia-Shortface
- Bald Masked Bee
- Bald thicktail scorpion
- Bald-faced hornet
- Bald-spot Sweat Bee
- Balearic small wood-scorpion
- Bali green stony coral
- Bali shortcake
- Balkan collared ant
- Balkan scorpion
- Balloon jelly
- Baluchi Potter Wasp
- Bamboo coral
- Banana coral
- Banana jellyfish
- Band-faced Masked Bee
- Band-footed Sweat Bee
- Banded Bagnest
- Banded Bead Anemone
- Banded beepirate
- Banded carpenter bee
- Banded caterpillar parasite wasp
- Banded dark bee
- Banded eagle ray
- Banded marble cone
- Banded Mud Bee
- Banded Paper Wasp
- Banded sea urchin
- Banded tube anemone
- Banded tube-dwelling anemone
- Banded whiptail stingray
- Bandfin scorpionfish
- Bandtail waspfish
- Banks' Cellophane Bee
- Banks' Mining Bee
- Banks' Nomad Bee
- Banksia bee
- Banyan tussock moth
- Barabattoia coral
- Baraka's whipray
- Barbara's Mining Bee
- Barbara's Oreopasites
- Barber's Cellophane-cuckoo Bee
- Barberry Miner Bee
- Barbfish
- Barbut's cuckoo bee
- Barchin scorpionfish
- Bare mustache ant
- Bare-bellied tree coral
- Bare-saddled blood bee
- Bare-saddled Cellophane Bee
- Barehead scorpionfish
- Barham miniature mining bee
- Baroque cave coral
- Barr's Banded Miner
- Barred rabbitfish
- Barrel Cactus Dufourea
- Barrel cactus longhorn bee
- Barrel Cactus Macrotera
- Barrel Cactus Woodborer
- Barrel jellyfish
- Barrel sea-pen
- Barring scorpion
- Barthelemy's cone
- Barthelemy's Night Hornet
- Bartsch's Cone
- Basal carpenter bee
- Basal Masked Bee
- Base-banded furrow bee
- Basket coral
- Bat eagle ray
- Bat ray
- Batwing moth caterpillar
- Bay-tailed Volcano-Digger
- Bayan's Cone
- Beach Combed-Sweat bee
- Beach Dune Cellophane Bee
- Beach Miner
- Beadlet anemone
- Beaked stony coral
- Bean coral
- Bear-clawed nomad bee
- Bearded big-headed ant
- Bearded carpenter bee
- Bearded fireworm
- Bearded hotrod ant
- Bearded Nomadopsis
- Bearded scorpionfish
- Beardsley's miner bee
- Beardtongue scraper bee
- Beaumont's Aeolid
- Beautiful Long-horned Bee
- Beautiful Miner
- Beautiful mustache ant
- Beautiful Townsendiella
- Beck's desert scorpion
- Bee Balm Fairy Bee
- Bee Parasitizing wasp
- Bee pirate
- Beebalm Shortface
- Beech cone
- Beetle grub parasitic wasp
- Beewolf
- Beijing longhorn bee
- Beijing Rotund-Resin bee
- Beijing small mason bee
- Beijing Vested-Furrow bee
- Belgica's hydroid
- Bell hydroid
- Bell Wasp
- Belle Nomad Bee
- Bellflower blunthorn bee
- Bellflower resin bee
- Bellflower Shortface
- Bellicose Bumble Bee
- Belted cone
- Belted Longhorn-Cuckoo
- Belted Orchid bee
- Belted Woolcarder
- Bembix sand wasp
- Bengal cone
- Bengal whipray
- Bennett
- Bennett's Orchid Bee
- Bennett's stingray
- Bent sea rod
- Bent-spined acorn ant
- Bentnose rabbitfish
- Bequaert's Fairy Bee
- Bequaert's Paper Wasp
- Bequaert's perdita
- Bequaert's Resin-Leafcutter Bee
- Bequaert's Scimitar Bee
- Berghia nudibranch
- Bering sea fan coral
- Bermuda cone
- Berried anemone
- Berry cone
- Bertsch's aeolid
- Bertsch's rainbow aeolid
- Bessey's Nomad Bee
- Bethune's Cuckoo Nomad Bee
- Bewick's coral
- Bi-lobed Cuckoo Sweat Bee
- Bianca's cone
- Bicolor gorgonian
- Bicolor rabbitfish
- Bicolored Cellophane Bee
- Bicolored fierce ant
- Bicolored harvester ant
- Bicolored leafcutter bee
- Bicolored pennant ant
- Bicolored shield ant
- Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee
- Bicolored trailing ant
- Bicoloured Bumble Bee
- Bicoloured Euproctis caterpillar
- Bicoloured Miner
- Bicoloured Thick-Resin bee
- Bicuspidaria Blazingstar-Shortface
- Big bend harvester ant
Rare
Genuinely uncommon. A strong pick on any prompt.
- African Honeybee
- Africanized bee
- American bumble bee
- Arabian deathstalker
- Arizona bark scorpion
- Arizona Carpenter Bee
- Asian honey bee
- Asian hornet
- Asian mud dauber
- Auger shell
- Australian box jellyfish
- Australian hornet
- Australian Paper Wasp
- Banded Sweat Bee
- Bark scorpion
- Black coral
- Black deathstalker
- Black hairy scorpion
- Black imported fire ant
- Black Miner Bee
- Black Sweat Bee
- Black-and-yellow mud dauber
- Blue ant
- Blue carpenter bee
- Blue catfish
- Blue dragon
- Blue orchard bee
- Bluebottle
- Bluntnose stingray
- Brain coral
- Brazilian yellow scorpion
- Bristle worm
- Brown-tail moth caterpillar
- Bubble tip anemone
- Buck moth caterpillar
- Buff-tailed bumblebee
- Bull ant
- Bullhead catfish
- Burrowing scorpion
- California Mason Bee
- Cannonball jellyfish
- Caribbean box jellyfish
- Caribbean Carpenter
- Carpenter bee
- Catfish
- Central American bark scorpion
- Channel catfish
- Chilean eagle ray
- Common carder bee
- Common eastern bumble bee
- Common long-spined urchin
- Common sea anemone
- Common sea fan
- Common soft coral
- Common wasp
- Cone snail
- Coral
- Crown-of-thorns starfish
- Cuckoo bee
- Cuckoo Bumble Bee
- Cuckoo wasp
- Deathstalker
- Diamond stingray
- Driver ant
- Eagle ray
- Early bumblebee
- Eastern Green Sweat Bee
- Eastern velvet ant
- Elkhorn coral
- Emperor scorpion
- European dark bee
- European paper wasp
- Executioner wasp
- Fat-tailed scorpion
- Fire coral
- Fireworm
- Flannel moth
- Freshwater jellyfish
- Fried egg jellyfish
- Garden bumblebee
- German wasp
- Giant Bumble Bee
- Giant desert hairy scorpion
- Giant honey bee
- Giant sea urchin
- Green-head ant
- Guinea paper wasp
- Hard coral
- Hardhead catfish
- Hickory tussock moth caterpillar
- Hunting wasp
- Hydra
- Ichneumon wasp
- Immortal jellyfish
- Indian red scorpion
- Irukandji jellyfish
- Japanese honey bee
- Japanese yellow hornet
- Large carpenter bee
- Large Garden Bumble Bee
- Large mason bee
- Large velvet ant
- Lesser banded hornet
- Lesser Paper Wasp
- Lion's mane jellyfish
- Lionfish
- Little black ant
- Little Carpenter Bee
- Little velvet ant
- Lonomia caterpillar
- Malaysian forest scorpion
- Mason bee
- Mauve stinger
- Mediterranean Cone Snail
- Metallic green sweat bee
- Metallic Sweat Bee
- Mexican Bumble Bee
- Mexican carpenter bee
- Mexican Paper Wasp
- Mexican scorpion
- Mexican tarantula-hawk wasp
- Mining bee
- Moon jellyfish
- Moroccan fat-tailed scorpion
- Mountain bumble bee
- Mud dauber
- Mushroom coral
- Nettle caterpillar
- Northern giant hornet
- Northern Paper Wasp
- Oak processionary
- Organ pipe coral
- Pacific crown-of-thorns starfish
- Pacific moon jelly
- Pacific sea nettle
- Paper wasp
- Pavement ant
- Pharaoh ant
- Pillar coral
- Pine processionary
- Pink coral
- Pink sea fan
- Platypus
- Portuguese man o' war
- Purple sea anemone
- Purple-striped jellyfish
- Red coral
- Red harvester ant
- Red jellyfish
- Red lionfish
- Red mason bee
- Red sea fan
- Red wasp
- Red-tailed bumblebee
- Rock anemone
- Rock scorpion
- Rockfish
- Sand anemone
- Scorpionfish
- Sea anemone
- Sea fan
- Sea nettle
- Sea pen
- Sea whip
- Siphonophore
- Slug caterpillar
- Small carpenter bee
- Social Wasp
- Soft coral
- Solitary bee
- Southern fire ant
- Southern Paper Wasp
- Spongy moth caterpillar
- Squash bee
- Staghorn coral
- Stalked jellyfish
- Star coral
- Stargazer
- Stinging caterpillar
- Stinging catfish
- Stonefish
- Tarantula hawk
- Thick-tailed scorpion
- Thief ant
- Tree bumblebee
- Tree Wasp
- Tropical fire ant
- Tube anemone
- Velvet ant
- Weever
- Western Carpenter Bee
- Western cicada killer
- Western harvester ant
- Western Paper Wasp
- White coral
- White-tailed bumblebee
- Yellow fire ant
- Yellow Hornet
- Yellow Paper Wasp
- Yellow-banded bumble bee
- Yellow-faced bumble bee
Schooler
Solid, but you’re swimming with the crowd.
- Ant
- Box jellyfish
- Bullet ant
- Bumblebee
- Fire ant
- Honey bee
- Sea urchin
- Yellowjacket
Plankton
The first thing everyone thinks of.
- Bee
- Hornet
- Jellyfish
- Scorpion
- Stingray
- Wasp