Beetle Time! Week 6

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Across
  1. 5. Lampyridae produce light by oxidiation of this chemical.
  2. 6. Cantharids and meloids produce this obnoxious, burning defense compound.
  3. 8. Members of this family are attractive to fermenting/decaying foods, waits along ant roads for honey dew, fungi, sap, flowers.
  4. 9. Parents in this family feed regurgitated carrion to 1st instars.
  5. 10. Family has characteristic defense smell, larvae (mealworms) sold as pet food.
  6. 11. Most species of this family are predacious on larval wood borers and attracted to bark beetle pheromones.
  7. 12. Family which has an active 1st instar larvae (triungulin)
Down
  1. 1. Larvae in decaying wood/plant piths, adults common in flowers and tumble when disturbed in this family.
  2. 2. Larvae and adults in this family are found in the same habitat, feed on the same food, and often associated with decaying materials, living under stones, near fungi, and somewhat inquilines in nests of ants, termites,mammals, and birds.
  3. 3. Adults/larvae predacious often on scales and aphids, adults hibernate in large aggregations in this family.
  4. 4. Family contains destructive scavenger larval pests, commonly used to clean vertebrate collections.
  5. 7. Males in this family have unique species- specific orange structures which females bite.