Ms. Riddle's Life Cycle Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. require host plants to lay; vary in shape and size
  2. 6. tiny caterpillars begin feeding and growing
  3. 7. segmented wormlike body with three pairs of true legs and several pairs similar to legs
  4. 8. molts and forms an encasement
  5. 10. also known as pupa
Down
  1. 1. a larva's first meal; provides important nutrients
  2. 3. number of stages in the butterfly life cycle
  3. 4. series of major changes in an animal's body
  4. 5. nectar-feeding insect with two pairs of large, bright colored wings
  5. 9. splits the pupal case open, crawls out and hangs upside down to stretch and dry its wings