This might sound rash. I'm going to suggest you basically demolish your island.

Say your goodbyes, because you're about to go on a tree murder spree, you criminal. As Patricia already highlighted in her handy How To Make Mounds Of Bells And Then Roll Around In It article, the island is where you want to go to make lots of cash off of beetles. I know how it is. You've got a house to expand, public works to develop, stuff to buy—whatever …. But occasionally there are pesky fruit beetles that aren't worth making the trip back to your town, or butterflies that get in your way when you're on the hunt.

Cut down all the bushes and pluck all the flowers. This minimizes how many bugs you have crawling on your island, because you're only really looking for those big, shiny beetles. I felt kind of bad about this personally, so I opted to keep one bush and the flowers.

I still get butterflies, but not nearly as many. Cut down most of the trees on your island.

The trick here is that the game will spawn beetles around the island, but with only four trees for it to pick from, you're creating an ideal tree set-up to best catch the most beetles in the least amount of time. It's basically like your own trap.

Here's a step-by-step visual tutorial of what you should do and what it should look like when you're done:. Cut these three palm trees down. You can see the hut in the background for reference. It's the left side of the island. In the middle of the island, cut that middle tree down. And get rid of the bushes and flowers, unless you felt guilty like me. And, finally, cut all four of these guys down, too. Including the oak tree sitting on the grassy area of the island. As Patricia already mentioned, forgo the green fruit beetles and focus on the stags and bigger creatures.

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She has a nifty list of beetles and their prices in her article that I'll copy here for your reference:. With this minimal tree set-up, you won't scare the beetles off as easily when approaching them, because you can run back and forth on the opposite side of the island and approach the beetles head-on rather than running around the island to get to them all.

Though I'll often run around anyway in search of finned fish while waiting for more beetles to spawn.

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You just have to slow to a walk if you're approaching them from the opposite end of the island. Stick to this method and you'll be bringing home hundreds of thousands of bells per island trip. Makes that 1G cost seem like pennies, doesn't it. Do a bit of googling and you'll see others online suggest you chop down all the oak trees. I prefer to keep them up because they often spawn Dynastid beetles and some other lower-tiered bugs that are still worth gathering.

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