Creatures Small but Great

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Across
  1. 2. These insects emerge in seventeen-year cycles in the Northeast
  2. 5. Swarm in large groups and are attracted to body odor
  3. 6. Last name of the American computer scientist who found 22 across
  4. 7. Their expandable cheek pouches store and carry food
  5. 9. A subset of insects that have sucking mouth parts
  6. 12. Burrow underground in winter leaving a shallow tunnel just above the surface of the ground - a.k.a. meadow mice
  7. 15. Harbinger of spring
  8. 17. Can eat as much as, and sometimes more than, their weight in one day
  9. 18. Found near freshwater, has transparent wings, and nearly 360 degree vision
  10. 19. These bugs eat wood
  11. 21. Goes with 24 across
  12. 22. Bug found in a computer mainframe at Harvard by Grace Hopper in 1947
  13. 24. Pollinators
  14. 25. First name of 6 across
  15. 27. Bloodsuckers
  16. 28. Use their legs and wings to communicate
Down
  1. 1. Create tunnels as they move through the soil which allow water to penetrate deeper into the ground
  2. 3. These ants chew through wood but do not eat it
  3. 4. Butterfly that has “tiger” stripes on its wings
  4. 5. Incredible jumpers that have five eyes
  5. 8. Insect “measuring the marigolds” from the musical film, “Hans Christian Andersen”
  6. 10. Moth that defoliated trees in the Northeast a few years ago (hint: “gypsy”is not PC)
  7. 11. Can fly backwards and stop in mid-air
  8. 13. Colorful songbirds - the canary is included in the species
  9. 14. The color of robin’s eggs
  10. 16. Butterfly that takes multiple generations to complete its full round-trip migration cycle between North America and central Mexico
  11. 18. Bird whose name begins with “mourning” but has a cheery morning song
  12. 20. Includes 75,000 species - not all of these are bugs
  13. 23. Spins a web
  14. 26. Fly whose color is the opposite of white