虫 (chóng): insect

Summer has arrived, and there are many little insects on the grass in the park.

My younger brother is very afraid of insects; whenever he sees a little bug, he screams.

Mom put an apple on the table, and the next day she found a worm on it.

Grandpa grows vegetables in the garden, and what he worries about most is insects eating all the leaves.

Scientists discovered a kind of insect in the forest that they had never seen before.