Bugs

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. Migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae (plural) (7)
  2. 5. Chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with (9)
  3. 9. A wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth (11)
  4. 12. A person who is born while the sun is in ___ (8)
  5. 14. Two-winged insects characterized by active flight (3)
  6. 15. Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying (6)
  7. 16. A game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players (7)

Down

  1. 1. Social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by (4)
  2. 2. Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings (9)
  3. 3. Social insect living in organized colonies (3)
  4. 6. Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest (9)
  5. 7. Whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood (plural) (8)
  6. 8. Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans (8)
  7. 10. Small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests (7)
  8. 11. Eight-legged creature that spins webs (6)
  9. 13. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species (3)