Mini-Beasts

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Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.

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b u r l s
Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings (plural)
2.
s g
3.
m u l
Black marine bivalves usually steamed in wine (plural)
4.
s d e
Eight-legged creature that spins webs (plural)
5.
c n e d
Chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with
6.
a r i s
Air-breathing arthropods characterized by simple eyes and four pairs of legs (plural)
7.
c o c h s
8.
j l l i
Large siphonophore having a bladderlike float and stinging tentacles
9.
m o l c
10.
c e p i l s
11.
s a s h
Echinoderms characterized by five arms extending from a central disk
12.
i s c
Small air-breathing arthropod (plural)
13.
f i
Two-winged insects characterized by active flight (plural)
14.
b e e
Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying (plural)
15.
m t
Typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae
16.
b s
Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species (plural)
17.
d o n l e
Slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest (plural)
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l i r d
Small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests
19.
s a l
Freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral (plural)
20.
m t
Any of numerous very small to minute arachnids often infesting animals or plants or stored foods (plural)
21.
w o d l
22.
a n
Social insect living in organized colonies (plural)
23.
c a
Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded (plural)
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f r u y