Edible insects

2. a mineral your body needs to build and maintain strong bones and to carry out many important functions.
3. typically used as a pet food for captive reptiles, fish, birds, and some small mammals
5. Life stage of insects undergoing transformation
9. Insects are a group of invertebrates that are part of the arthropod phylum
12. medium to large insects with short antennae and large eyes.
13. an insect at the immobile nonfeeding stage of development between larva and adult, when many internal changes occur
14. Creepy crawly part of the group of animals known as arthropods
15. helps your immune system fight off invading bacteria and viruses
16. the juvenile form of an insect.
17. The taking in and use of food and other nourishing material by the body.
18. distinct group of animals or plants that have common characteristics and can breed with each other.

1. crucial macronutrient that's made up of amino acids
2. the act of using, eating, or drinking something, or the amount that is used
4. the process or period of gathering in crops.
5. helps your nerves, muscles and heart to function properly, as well as helping move nutrients and waste around your cells.
6. the quality or state of having different forms or types
7. substances naturally formed in the Earth
8. the act or process of working the ground, planting seeds, and growing edible plants,raising animals
10. An insect in the superfamily Grylloideas
11. degree to which something is successful in producing a desired result