Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ new fish, insects and sea creatures to fish in January

With January coming, Animal Crossing: New Horizons players encounter a different batch of fish, insects and sea creatures around their islands.

There is no rush to pick up any of them, as most of them will stay for much longer than a month, but be sure to donate any new finds to Blathers to complete your Museum. You can tell when you picked up a new creature because your character will exclaim “Yes!” before saying the name of the insect or fish.

You can also check your Critterpedia to see if you donated the insect fish or not. If so, there will be a small owl icon next to the creature’s name. (Note that these badges will not appear if you are on someone else’s island.)

Unfortunately, the northern hemisphere islands are not receiving new creatures in January. You can see the list of creatures in the southern hemisphere moving below. Remember that some of them are returning to your island after they become available, so if they look familiar, you probably picked them up during a previous availability.

New creatures to find in Animal Crossing: New Horizons for January (Southern Hemisphere)

Creature type Animal Location Shade Size Time
Creature type Animal Location Shade Size Time
Mistake grasshopper In floor N / D 8 am – 5 pm
Mistake Brown cicada In the trees N / D 8 am – 5 pm
Mistake Robust cicada In the trees N / D 8 am – 5 pm
Mistake Giant cicada In the trees N / D 8 am – 5 pm
Mistake Cicada at night In the trees N / D 4am – 8am, 4pm – 7pm
Mistake Cicada Shell In the trees N / D All day
Mistake Blue Weevil Beetle In coconut trees N / D All day
Mistake Bland beetle In floor N / D All day
Mistake Scarab In the trees N / D 11pm – 8am
Mistake Saw stag In the trees N / D All day
Mistake Miyama Deer In the trees N / D All day
Mistake Giant Stag In the trees N / D 11pm – 8am
Mistake Cyclommatus Stag In coconut trees N / D 5 pm – 8 am
Mistake Golden deer In coconut trees N / D 5 pm – 8 am
Mistake Deer giraffe In coconut trees N / D 5 pm – 8 am
Mistake Horned Dynastid In the trees N / D 5 pm – 8 am
Mistake Horned Atlas In coconut trees N / D 5 pm – 8 am
Mistake Elephant with horns In coconut trees N / D 5 pm – 8 am
Mistake Horned Herucles In coconut trees N / D 5 pm – 8 am
Mistake Walking stick In the trees N / D 4am – 8am, 5pm – 7pm
Mistake Walking Leaf Near trees, disguised as mobile leaf N / D All day
Fish Sweetfish River Medium All day
Fish Napoleonfish Sea Bigger 4am – 9pm
Fish Pufferfish Sea Medium All day
Fish Blue Marlin Pier Bigger All day
Fish Ocean Sunfish Sea Greater (Fin) 4am – 9pm
Sea creatures Moon jellyfish Ocean (diving) N / D All day
Sea creatures Giant Isopod Ocean (diving) N / D 9 am – 4 pm, 9 pm – 4 am
Sea creatures Horseshoe crab Ocean (diving) N / D 9:00 pm – 4:00 am

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