Mini-Beasts

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Two-winged insects characterized by active flight (plural) (5)
  2. 5. Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings (plural) (11)
  3. 9. Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral (plural) (6)
  4. 11. Terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil (plural) (10)
  5. 13. Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying (plural) (7)
  6. 14. Chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with (9)
  7. 15. Black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine (plural) (7)

Down

  1. 2. Small air-breathing arthropod (plural) (7)
  2. 3. Eight-legged creature that spins webs (plural) (7)
  3. 4. Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest (plural) (11)
  4. 6. Small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests (8)
  5. 7. Carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end (plural) (7)
  6. 8. Air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs (plural) (9)
  7. 10. Any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae (7)
  8. 12. Echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk (8)
  9. 15. Typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae (4)