Across
- 2. Lacewings; predatory larvae, delicate net-like wings.
- 6. Praying mantises; raptorial forelegs for capturing prey.
- 8. Booklice; often found feeding on stored products or mold.
- 10. Earwigs; forceps-like cerci at abdomen tip.
- 11. Paired sensory organs used for smell and touch.
- 15. Grasshoppers & crickets; powerful jumping hindlegs.
- 16. An insect that moves pollen between flowers.
- 17. Stick insects; cryptic mimicry of twigs.
- 18. Term describing insects like bees or ants that live in colonies.
- 20. Chitinous covering that provides protection and support.
- 21. Process of shedding old cuticle to allow growth.
- 22. Jaw-like mouthpart for chewing.
- 24. Family of crickets; known for stridulation (chirping).
- 25. Large, muscular segment of insect leg.
- 28. Immature stage of hemimetabolous insects.
- 29. Fleas; wingless, laterally compressed ectoparasites.
- 30. Active mainly at night.
- 31. Hardened forewings of beetles.
- 33. Dragonflies & damselflies; aquatic nymphs with extendable labium.
- 34. Bees, wasps & ants; many are social and have constricted waists.
- 37. Paired appendages at the tip of the abdomen, often sensory.
- 38. True bugs; piercing-sucking mouthparts, hemelytra forewings.
- 39. Stoneflies; indicators of clean freshwater habitats.
Down
- 1. True flies; one pair of wings and halteres.
- 3. Phylum to which insects belong.
- 4. Butterflies & moths; wings covered in scales.
- 5. Insect “blood,” circulates nutrients but not oxygen.
- 7. Mayflies; adults have vestigial mouthparts, short life span.
- 9. Tubular mouthpart for sucking liquids.
- 12. Organ used to lay eggs (can be modified as a stinger).
- 13. Foot segment of the leg.
- 14. Beetles; forewings modified into elytra.
- 19. Stage between larva and adult in holometabolous insects.
- 23. Termites (or part of Blattodea); eusocial, eat cellulose.
- 26. External opening of the respiratory system.
- 27. Collective term for eggs, larvae, and pupae of social insects.
- 32. Silverfish; primitive wingless insects.
- 35. Caddisflies; larvae build protective cases from debris.
- 36. Adaptation where one species resembles another.