Bugs
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.
1.
p
Social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by
2.
s
o
Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans
3.
h
e
Large stinging paper wasp
4.
m
Typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae
5.
p
d
Eight-legged creature that spins webs
6.
c
r
A person who is born while the sun is in ___
7.
l
u
Small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests
8.
t
f
l
Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings
11.
e
n
d
Chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with
12.
c
i
r
A wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth
14.
e
l
Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying
15.
a
g
o
Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest
16.
g
s
p
Terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
17.
c
i
A game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players
21.
l
u
Migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae (plural)
23.
e
e
Whitish soft-bodied ant-like social insect that feeds on wood (plural)
24.
t
r
m
Terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil