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Insects crossword

Clues across and down, at three difficulties, and it prints with the answer key.

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Insects12345678910111213141516

Across

  • 1 Silk case a moth spins around itself
  • 3 Summer glower that blinks in the dark
  • 8 Pair of feelers on an insect's head
  • 9 Long-legged jumper of meadows and fields
  • 10 Buzzing home full of honeycomb
  • 13 Hive worker that pollinates flowers and makes a sweet syrup
  • 15 Small red beetle with black spots, considered lucky
  • 16 Big moving cloud of insects

Down

  • 2 Chirping night insect that rubs its wings together
  • 4 Colorful winged insect that was once a caterpillar
  • 5 Praying predator with folded front legs
  • 6 Fast flier with four clear wings, often seen near ponds
  • 7 Wood-chewing pest that builds tall mounds
  • 11 Biting pest with a whining buzz and an itchy calling card
  • 12 Hard-shelled insect group, the largest of them all
  • 14 Wormlike young stage before the pupa

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Insects1CO2COONR3FIREFLY4B5MCUA6DKTNRE7TTT8ANTENNAEEIGR9GRASSHOPPERMFN10HIVELFTY11ML12BE13HONEYBEESE14LQT15LADYBUGLRIEVT16SWARMO
  1. 1 across: COCOON. Silk case a moth spins around itself
  2. 2 down: CRICKET. Chirping night insect that rubs its wings together
  3. 3 across: FIREFLY. Summer glower that blinks in the dark
  4. 4 down: BUTTERFLY. Colorful winged insect that was once a caterpillar
  5. 5 down: MANTIS. Praying predator with folded front legs
  6. 6 down: DRAGONFLY. Fast flier with four clear wings, often seen near ponds
  7. 7 down: TERMITE. Wood-chewing pest that builds tall mounds
  8. 8 across: ANTENNAE. Pair of feelers on an insect's head
  9. 9 across: GRASSHOPPER. Long-legged jumper of meadows and fields
  10. 10 across: HIVE. Buzzing home full of honeycomb
  11. 11 down: MOSQUITO. Biting pest with a whining buzz and an itchy calling card
  12. 12 down: BEETLE. Hard-shelled insect group, the largest of them all
  13. 13 across: HONEYBEE. Hive worker that pollinates flowers and makes a sweet syrup
  14. 14 down: LARVA. Wormlike young stage before the pupa
  15. 15 across: LADYBUG. Small red beetle with black spots, considered lucky
  16. 16 across: SWARM. Big moving cloud of insects
Insects12345678910111213141516

Across

  • 1 Praying predator with folded front legs
  • 5 Wormlike young stage before the pupa
  • 7 Biting pest with a whining buzz and an itchy calling card
  • 9 Chirping night insect that rubs its wings together
  • 11 Long-legged jumper of meadows and fields
  • 13 Pair of feelers on an insect's head
  • 14 Small red beetle with black spots, considered lucky
  • 15 Hard-shelled insect group, the largest of them all
  • 16 Summer glower that blinks in the dark

Down

  • 2 Wood-chewing pest that builds tall mounds
  • 3 Big moving cloud of insects
  • 4 Silk case a moth spins around itself
  • 6 Colorful winged insect that was once a caterpillar
  • 8 Fast flier with four clear wings, often seen near ponds
  • 10 Hive worker that pollinates flowers and makes a sweet syrup
  • 12 Buzzing home full of honeycomb

Print the page above, or take the medium grid as a PDF. Both carry the answer key, and large print is a setting rather than a separate file.

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Insects1MAN2TI3SEW4C5LARVAOMRC6BIM7MOSQUITO8DOTE9CRICKETNTA10HE11GRASSHOPPER12HONFI13ANTENNAE14LADYBUGVFYY15BEETLEBY16FIREFLYE
  1. 1 across: MANTIS. Praying predator with folded front legs
  2. 2 down: TERMITE. Wood-chewing pest that builds tall mounds
  3. 3 down: SWARM. Big moving cloud of insects
  4. 4 down: COCOON. Silk case a moth spins around itself
  5. 5 across: LARVA. Wormlike young stage before the pupa
  6. 6 down: BUTTERFLY. Colorful winged insect that was once a caterpillar
  7. 7 across: MOSQUITO. Biting pest with a whining buzz and an itchy calling card
  8. 8 down: DRAGONFLY. Fast flier with four clear wings, often seen near ponds
  9. 9 across: CRICKET. Chirping night insect that rubs its wings together
  10. 10 down: HONEYBEE. Hive worker that pollinates flowers and makes a sweet syrup
  11. 11 across: GRASSHOPPER. Long-legged jumper of meadows and fields
  12. 12 down: HIVE. Buzzing home full of honeycomb
  13. 13 across: ANTENNAE. Pair of feelers on an insect's head
  14. 14 across: LADYBUG. Small red beetle with black spots, considered lucky
  15. 15 across: BEETLE. Hard-shelled insect group, the largest of them all
  16. 16 across: FIREFLY. Summer glower that blinks in the dark
Insects12345678910111213141516

Across

  • 3 Hard-shelled insect group, the largest of them all
  • 8 Chirping night insect that rubs its wings together
  • 9 Hive worker that pollinates flowers and makes a sweet syrup
  • 10 Biting pest with a whining buzz and an itchy calling card
  • 11 Long-legged jumper of meadows and fields
  • 14 Fast flier with four clear wings, often seen near ponds
  • 16 Summer glower that blinks in the dark

Down

  • 1 Buzzing home full of honeycomb
  • 2 Wood-chewing pest that builds tall mounds
  • 4 Wormlike young stage before the pupa
  • 5 Pair of feelers on an insect's head
  • 6 Silk case a moth spins around itself
  • 7 Colorful winged insect that was once a caterpillar
  • 12 Big moving cloud of insects
  • 13 Praying predator with folded front legs
  • 15 Small red beetle with black spots, considered lucky

Print the page above, or take the hard grid as a PDF. Both carry the answer key, and large print is a setting rather than a separate file.

Show the answer key
Insects1HI2TV3BEET4LE5ARANMR6C7B8CRICKETIVOUETACT9HONEYBEE10MOSQUITONOEAN11GRA12SSHOPPERFW13MLA14DRAGONF15LYRNAMTD16FIREFLYSBUG
  1. 1 down: HIVE. Buzzing home full of honeycomb
  2. 2 down: TERMITE. Wood-chewing pest that builds tall mounds
  3. 3 across: BEETLE. Hard-shelled insect group, the largest of them all
  4. 4 down: LARVA. Wormlike young stage before the pupa
  5. 5 down: ANTENNAE. Pair of feelers on an insect's head
  6. 6 down: COCOON. Silk case a moth spins around itself
  7. 7 down: BUTTERFLY. Colorful winged insect that was once a caterpillar
  8. 8 across: CRICKET. Chirping night insect that rubs its wings together
  9. 9 across: HONEYBEE. Hive worker that pollinates flowers and makes a sweet syrup
  10. 10 across: MOSQUITO. Biting pest with a whining buzz and an itchy calling card
  11. 11 across: GRASSHOPPER. Long-legged jumper of meadows and fields
  12. 12 down: SWARM. Big moving cloud of insects
  13. 13 down: MANTIS. Praying predator with folded front legs
  14. 14 across: DRAGONFLY. Fast flier with four clear wings, often seen near ponds
  15. 15 down: LADYBUG. Small red beetle with black spots, considered lucky
  16. 16 across: FIREFLY. Summer glower that blinks in the dark

About Insects

Insects wear their skeletons on the outside and carry six legs on a body split into head, thorax, and abdomen. Beetles alone account for more named species than any other group of animals. A firefly's glow comes from a chemical reaction in its abdomen, a male cricket chirps by scraping one wing against the other, and a butterfly rebuilds itself almost entirely inside its chrysalis. Antennae do the smelling. Fill the grid, then go look at what is walking across the sidewalk.

Reach for this during an insect or life cycle unit, or on any afternoon when a bug collection has taken over the kitchen table.

What is in this crossword

A 19 by 19 crossword with 8 across and 8 down, on the subject of Insects.

Grid
19 x 19
Across
8
Down
8
Longest answer
GRASSHOPPER (11 letters)

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