Minibeasts

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Two-winged insect whose female has a long proboscis to pierce the skin and suck the blood of humans (8)
  2. 6. General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate (3)
  3. 7. Social insect living in organized colonies (plural) (4)
  4. 9. Chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with (9)
  5. 10. Predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions (6)
  6. 11. Any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida (4)
  7. 12. Any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed (6)
  8. 13. A wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth (11)
  9. 14. Two-winged insects characterized by active flight (plural) (5)

Down

  1. 1. Typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae (4)
  2. 2. Robust hairy social bee of temperate regions (plural) (10)
  3. 4. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species (plural) (4)
  4. 5. Slender non-stinging insect similar to but smaller than the dragonfly but having wings folded when (9)
  5. 6. Diurnal insect typically having a slender body with knobbed antennae and broad colorful wings (9)
  6. 8. Arachnid of warm dry regions having a long segmented tail ending in a venomous stinger (8)
  7. 14. Any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap (plural) (5)